1 A tool to quickly ping N number of hosts to determine their reachability
2 without flooding the network.
4 fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of
5 hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists
6 of hosts to ping. Instead of trying one host until it timeouts or
7 replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next
8 host in a round-robin fashion. If a host replies, it is noted and
9 removed from the list of hosts to check. If a host does not respond
10 within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it will be considered
13 Unlike ping, fping is meant to be used in scripts and its
14 output is easy to parse.