fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts. fping has a long long story: Roland Schemers did publish a first version of it in 1992 and it has established itself since then as a standard tool.
Current maintainer:
Dan Molik <[email protected]>
Website:
http://fping.org/
Mailing-list:
https://groups.google.com/group/fping-users
If you want to install fping from source, proceed as follows:
- Run ./autogen.sh (only if you got the source from github)
- Run ./configure with the correct arguments (see: ./configure --help)
- Run make; make install
- Make fping either setuid, or, if under Linux: sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep fping
- Have a look at the fping(8) manual for usage help (fping -h will also give a minimal help output)
You can can compile fping with support for IPv6 addresses. A separate binary is used for that, called fping6. To build it, use ./configure --enable-ipv6 (possibly combined with --enable-ipv4 to also build fping for IPv4). E.g.:
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-ipv4 --enable-ipv6
# make
# make install
# sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep /usr/local/bin/fping*
Original author: Roland Schemers ([email protected]) Previous maintainer: RL "Bob" Morgan ([email protected]) Initial IPv6 Support: Jeroen Massar ([email protected] / [email protected]) Other contributors: see ChangeLog