# The net/fping port

## fping-2.4b2p6 – quickly ping N hosts w/o flooding the network

## Description

    fping quickly pings multiple hosts, specified on the command-line or
    in a file, to determine their reachability without flooding the network.
    Instead of trying one host until it times out 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.

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

    N.B. The binaries installed by this package are setuid root.

WWW: http://fping.sf.net/

Categories:
  net

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=1.21:textproc/groff

## Run dependencies