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| author | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-03-25 17:58:02 +0800 |
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| committer | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-03-25 17:58:02 +0800 |
| commit | 9193d6bd4350479821be289a4112d607ea56adc4 (patch) | |
| tree | 24f96a11dab025c14a385946c65f34207232732b /net/fping/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 24e18e4e51a3e5e7a1db901abe29898b92b8beb1 (diff) | |
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A tool to quickly ping N number of hosts to determine their reachability
without flooding the network.
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diff --git a/net/fping/pkg-descr b/net/fping/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0e7d998a6ca1 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/fping/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +A tool to quickly ping N number of hosts to determine their reachability +without flooding the network. + + fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of + hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists + of hosts to ping. Instead of trying one host until it timeouts or + replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next + host in a round-robin fashion. If a host replies, it is noted and + removed from the list of hosts to check. If a host does not respond + within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it will be considered + unreachable. + + Unlike ping, fping is meant to be used in scripts and its + output is easy to parse. |