fping 5.3

fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.
Tags | internet networking monitoring ping icmp c perl shell |
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License | Other |
State | stable |
fping 5.3![]() fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.
Recent Releases
5.304 Feb 2025 10:36
minor feature:
New features: New option --icmp-timestamp to send ICMP timestamp requests (ICMP type 13) instead of ICMP Echo requests. New option --print-ttl to print returned TTL value. New option --print-tos to print returned TOS value. New option --check-source. Predefined various timestamp formats. Print cumulative stats with -Q SECS,cumulative. and other changes: ci: Upgrade actions/upload-artifact to v4. ci: Azure Pipeline only trigger when changes are made in the development branch. ci: Upgrade actions/upload-artifact to v3. ci: Azure Pipeline YAML add docker build. Dockerfile: change distribution from ubuntu to debian. warning unused parameter 'reply_timestamp' under macOS. increase maximum -s value to 65507. ci: use File::Temp to create temporary directory. -k, --fwmark with setuid fping executable. Another batch of additional tests (take 2). Document that -a and -u are overridden by -c and -C. macOS build warning sets SEQMAP_TIMEOUT_IN_NSSEQMAP_TIMEOUT_IN_NS as INT64_C. inconsistent limits for address generation via -g, --generator using either range or CIDR. Some additional tests. ci: skip an unreliable test on macOS. incorrect return-value check for a scanf like function (CWE-253). A few more tests to increase code coverage a little bit. Github : Change to codeql-action-v2. Developer function: Dewith Visual Studio Code.
4.118 Sep 2018 19:20
minor feature:
* Fix problem when socket fd is 0 (#125, thanks RamΓ³n Novoa!)
* Fix running on servers with disabled IPv6 (#118, thanks Simon Matter)
* Allow running "fping -h" or "--help" even when raw socket can't be opened (#131, thanks @teto)
* Fix build issue with FreeBSD and IPv6 (#132, thanks @gsnw)
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