Short:        Show which network hosts are alive
Author:       Roland Schemers, David Schweikert & others
Uploader:     Carsten Larsen (carsten larsen mail com)
Type:         comm/tcp
Version:      3.13b
Architecture: i386-aros
URL:          http://fping.org/

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WHAT IS FPING ?
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fping is a program like ping which uses the Internet Control Message
Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a target host is responding.
fping differs from ping in that you can specify any number of targets on
the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of targets to
ping.

Instead of sending to one target until it times out or replies, fping will
send out a ping packet and move on to the next target in a round-robin
fashion. In the default mode, if a target replies, it is noted and removed
from the list of targets to check; if a target does not respond within a
certain time limit and/or retry limit it is designated as unreachable.

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EXAMPLE OF USAGE
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Generate ~1000 pings per second to a host until cancelled, printing
statistics on the fly at one second intervals, and printing statistics
at the end:

> fping -s -l -i 1 -p 1 -T 1 -Q 1 127.0.0.1

Show if a list of hosts are alive
> fping -f hosts

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KNOWN BUGS
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This version of fping is a BETA version.