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:
David Schweikert <david@schweikert.ch>
Website:
https://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
./configurewith the correct arguments. (see:./configure --help) - Run
make; make install. - Make fping either setuid, or, if under Linux:
sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+ep fping
If you can't run fping as root or can't use the cap_net_raw capability, you can
also run fping in unprivileged mode. This works on MacOS and also on Linux,
provided that your GID is included in the range defined in
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ping_group_range. This is particularly useful for running
fping in rootless / unprivileged containers. The --fwmark option needs root or
cap_net_admin.
Have a look at the fping(8) manual page for usage help.
(fping -h will also give a minimal help output.)
- Original author: Roland Schemers (schemers@stanford.edu)
- Previous maintainer: RL "Bob" Morgan (morgan@stanford.edu)
- Initial IPv6 Support: Jeroen Massar (jeroen@unfix.org / jeroen@ipng.nl)
- Other contributors: see CHANGELOG.md