What is fping?
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.
Announcing version 3
There has been no official fping release since 2002. Various patches exist, but were never integrated "upstream". Also, the current maintainer doesn't answer emails, so I decided to just step up and take over maintenanceship. If you disagree, please contact me.
To mark this change of maintenance, and avoid confusion, I have decided to call it version 3. Besides a new maintainer, fping now also features a completely rewritten main loop implementation which improves performance significantly. The run time is now close to the theoretical time required to send and receive the pings under the specified parameters.
fping 3.0 includes the following changes, compared to the last released version 2.4b2-to-ipv6:
- Debian patches until version 2.4b2-to-ipv6-16.
- Modifications by Tobias Oetiker for SmokePing (2.4b2-to4)
- Reimplemented main loop for improved performance (me)
See the latest ChangeLog file for details.
Download
Download release packages or the latest sources from GitHub.
Contact me
David Schweikert <david@schweikert.ch>