Home > Repositories > base > fping
fping is a ping like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a host is up.
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.
fping: Quickly ping N number of hosts to determine their reachability
fping is a ping like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a host is up.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.
| Name: | fping |
| Release: | 5.4-1mamba |
| Group: | Applications/Networking |
| Maintainer: | aleph0 |
| License: | GPL |
| Size: | 209.66 kB |
| Upstream URL: | http://survey-smiles.com/ |
| Build time: | 2025-08-20 17:29:42 |
Binary packages and requirements
| x86_64 | aarch64 | i586 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built RPMS | fping fping-debug | fping fping-debug | fping fping-debug |
| Build requirements | glibc-devel [1] | glibc-devel [1] | glibc-devel [1] |
History of changes
| Date | Packager | Release | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-20 | Automatic Build System | 5.4-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2025-01-03 | Automatic Build System | 5.3-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2024-04-22 | Automatic Build System | 5.2-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2022-02-07 | autodist | 5.1-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2020-09-10 | autodist | 5.0-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2020-09-09 | autodist | 4.4-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2020-07-25 | autodist | 4.3-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2019-03-07 | autodist | 4.2-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2018-10-03 | autodist | 4.1-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2017-08-06 | autodist | 4.0-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
