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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.

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[unknown]                 3289    8716  37.7% -lh5- a953 Feb 22 10:00 fping/fping.help
[unknown]                  720    1707  42.2% -lh5- 31de Feb 22 10:00 fping/fping.readme
[unknown]                 3149    7793  40.4% -lh5- c8c4 Feb 22 10:00 fping/fping.txt
[unknown]                  680    1129  60.2% -lh5- 9e7c Feb 22 10:00 fping/LICENCE
[unknown]                 1463    3055  47.9% -lh5- 6597 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/configure
[unknown]                17794   70696  25.2% -lh5- 8879 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/fping.c
[unknown]                 1166    3196  36.5% -lh5- 7f2c Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/fping.h
[unknown]                 1157    3672  31.5% -lh5- a573 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/fping_amiga.c
[unknown]                 3827   13692  28.0% -lh5- 9cd1 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/getaddrinfo.c
[unknown]                 1735    4844  35.8% -lh5- 9b68 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/getaddrinfo.h
[unknown]                 1794    4797  37.4% -lh5- 9fc8 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/getopt.c
[unknown]                 1006    1892  53.2% -lh5- 291c Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/getopt.h
[unknown]                  420    1076  39.0% -lh5- fd9c Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/Makefile
[unknown]                 1206    6037  20.0% -lh5- 5c69 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/mem.c
[unknown]                  204     857  23.8% -lh5- cc77 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/mem.h
[unknown]                 1615    4129  39.1% -lh5- 65bf Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/ntop.c
[unknown]                  560    1557  36.0% -lh5- 6614 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/options.h
[unknown]                 2923    8452  34.6% -lh5- 5db1 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/pton.c
[unknown]                 1176    2200  53.5% -lh5- 348b Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/rand.c
[unknown]                 1771    3983  44.5% -lh5- c738 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/seqmap.c
[unknown]                  209     412  50.7% -lh5- 2559 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/seqmap.h
[unknown]                 1124    2953  38.1% -lh5- 0e0c Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/socket.c
[unknown]                 1963    4290  45.8% -lh5- f6a5 Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/socket4.c
[unknown]                 1667    3534  47.2% -lh5- 18cd Feb 22 10:00 fping/src/socket6.c
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