fping 2.4b2_1 net =105

Quickly ping N hosts w/o flooding the network
Maintained by: jharris@widomaker.com
Port Added: unknown
Also Listed In: ipv6

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A tool 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.

WWW: http://www.fping.com/

CVSWeb : Sources : Main Web Site : Distfiles Availability : PortsMon

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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/net/fping/ && make install clean
To add the package: pkg_add -r fping

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Configuration Options

     No options to configure

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Master Sites:

http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/distfiles/

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/

ports/net/fping patch to add -S source_addr option

        Several people have produced some patches for fping that adds an
        option to select the IP source_address for queries and some have
        said they submitted them to the sourceforge fping maintainer.
        Since I did not see any official fping distributions that include
        any of those patches, I recently Cc-ed the sourceforge fping
        maintainer's address in a question to the smokeping mailing-list
        asking about that patch but so far I have heard back only from
        that list with a pointer to a debian patch. Per request from
        Jason Harris, I include here a copy of the patch that is usable
        in ports/net/fping/files that adds that option.

PR:             ports/111549
Submitted by:   Philip Kizer <pckizer@nostrum.com>
Approved by:    maintainer timeout

- Remove distinfo hashes, which are not used officially

No objection from:      ports@, maintainers
Approved by:            portmgr (pav)

- Fix fetch: mirror on maintainer's site

PR:             ports/110727
Submitted by:   Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com> (maintainer)

Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with N

- allow 0 retries [1]
- remove s/microsecond/millisecond/ [1]
- use PLIST_FILES, remove pkg-plist [2]
- add SHA256 hash to distinfo [2]

PR:             [1] ports/83339
                [2] ports/83757
Submitted by:   [1] Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>
                [2] Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com>

Forced commit to note addition of SHA1, RMD160 and SIZE fields.

Requested by:   erwin

- Give maintainership to volunteer

PR:             ports/60952
Submitted by:   Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com>

- Fix build on -current
- Pet portlint

Reported by: bento (kris)

Make portlint(1) happy by changing strip to ${STRIP_CMD}

Submitted by:   Oleg Karachevtsev <ok@etrust.ru>
PR:             56998

De-pkg-comment.

Update to 2.4b2.

IPv6 support gained.
Master site moved.
Add WWW URL.

Replace ${PERL} with ${REINPLACE_CMD}

PR:             39668
Submitted by:   Oliver Braun <obraun@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de>

Drop maintainership.  I don't use this everyday as I once did

Do not treat FreeBSD/Alpha as being braindead as some other OS that   runs on
the Alpha platform.    

Add $FreeBSD$'s which help me in problem reports.    

Dynamically set the FreeBSD maintainer.    

Chase the checksum; no changes to distfile.    

Convert category net to new layout.  

Upgrade to version 2.2b1.    

Fix bogons in my milliseconds => microseconds timeouts change.    

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