fping
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.
Details
Category: Network
Publisher: trickest
Created Date: 11/8/2021
Container: quay.io/trickest/fping:4.2-1
Source URL: https://github.com/schweikert/fping
Parameters
Command:
-g - Generate a target list from a supplied IP netmask, or a starting and ending IP. Specify the netmask or start/end in the targets portion of the command line. If a network with netmask is given, the network and broadcast addresses will be excluded. ex. To ping the network 192.168.1.0/24, the specified command line could look like either: fping -g 192.168.1.0/24 or fping -g 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.254Command:
-f - Read list of targets from a file. This option can only be used by the root user.