./net/fping6, Quickly ping many hosts w/o flooding the network

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Branch: pkgsrc-2007Q4, Version: 2.4b2, Package name: fping6-2.4b2, Maintainer: bouyer

A tool with IPv6 support to quickly ping N number of hosts to determine their
reachability without flooding the network.

fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of
hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists
of hosts to ping. Instead of trying one host until it timeouts or
replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next
host in a round-robin fashion. If a host replies, it is noted and
removed from the list of hosts to check. If a host does not respond
within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it will be considered
unreachable.

Unlike ping, fping is meant to be used in scripts and its
output is easy to parse.



Package options: inet6

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RMD160: cff101a53baec9cc23063ff2004db69a3510c51f
Filesize: 61.849 KB

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