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A tool to quickly ping N number of hosts to determine their reachability
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without flooding the network.
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fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of
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hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists
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of hosts to ping. Instead of trying one host until it timeouts or
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replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next
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host in a round-robin fashion. If a host replies, it is noted and
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removed from the list of hosts to check. If a host does not respond
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within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it will be considered
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unreachable.
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Unlike ping, fping is meant to be used in scripts and its
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output is easy to parse.
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WWW: http://www.fping.org/
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