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.
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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net: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* <ports@c0decafe.net>
* Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
* Aaron Straup Cope <ascope@cpan.org>
* Aaron Zauner <az_mail@gmx.at>
* Adam Jette <jettea46@yahoo.com>
* Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
* Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
* Alex Bakhtin <Alex.Bakhtin@gmail.com>
* Alex Deiter <Alex.Deiter@Gmail.COM>
* Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
* Alex Dupre <sysadmin@alexdupre.com>
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net/fping: Avoid ident collisions
fping derives the ident it puts in the outbound packet to from the
low 16 bits of the process id. This means a busy nagios server can
see collisions. More details on this issue and a patch to solve it
here:
https://github.com/schweikert/fping/issues/206
Apply the patch from the github issue:
PR: 264402
Reported by: Case Larsen
Approved by: jharris (maintainer)
net/fping: Update to 4.4
ChangeLog: https://github.com/schweikert/fping/releases/tag/v4.4
* Use official release with MASTER_SITES instead of USE_GITHUB.
PR: 248356
Submitted by: daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net
Reviewed by: jharris@widomaker.com (maintainer)
net/fping: fix WITHOUT_IPV6 mode
If one builds and uses net/fping version 4.2 with option IPV6 disabled,
the command fping -4 always fails with wrong error message:
fping: can't specify both -4 and -6
This makes it impossible using fping probes with SmokePing
as it runs fping with -4 option. This change fixes this.
Also, do not install symlinks for fping6 and manual in this case.
PORTREVISION not bumped as default build is not affected.
PR: 238327
Approved by: jharris@widomaker.com (maintainter timeout, 2 weeks)
net/fping: Update to 4.2
While I'm here:
* Move options block a bit further down according to the PHB
Changelog:
* New option -x / --reachable to check if the number of reachable hosts is
>= a certain number. Useful for example to implement connectivity-checks
* Allow decimal numbers for '-t', '-i', '-p', and '-Q'
* Fix build with --disable-ipv6
* Fix hang with '-6', with ipv6 kernel module, but not loaded
* Assume '-6' if the binary is named 'fping6' (this is mostly for special
embedded-distro use cases, and not meant to be used generally in place of
compiling IPv6-only binary or using '-6')
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Add an option to disable IPv6 support
In jail environment, because fping 4.0 comes
with combined IPv4/IPv6 support, you need to enable
IPv6 for the jail even if you will not use IPv6.
This patch adds an IPV6 option, enabled by default,
but who can be turn off to build fping without IPv6
support and used it inside a jail without IPv6.
PR: 229903
Submitted by: Andrew <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com>
Reported by: Stefan Witzel <stefan.witzel@zvw.uni-goettingen.de>
Approved by: <jharris@widomaker.com> (maintainer)
net/fping: Update to 3.13
- Use new official GitHub repo, as website was down from Apr-Sept 2016
- Add USES=autoreconf as GitHub tarball only comes with configure.ac
- Add USES=gmake as manpage generation was failing with pmake
Changes this release:
https://github.com/schweikert/fping/blob/3.13/ChangeLog
PR: 212386
Approved by: jharris@widomaker.com (maintainer), adamw (mentor)
According to the Porter's Handbook (5.12.2.3.) default options must be added to
OPTIONS_DEFINE. This policy has been implemented only recently that's why we
have many ports violating this policy.
This patch adds the default options specified in the Porter's Handbook to
OPTIONS_DEFINE where they are being used. Ports maintained by
gnome@FreeBSD.org, kde@FreeBSD.org and x11@FreeBSD.org have been excluded.
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
- Add timestamps option (used by netperf-wrapper) [1]
- Fix fping issue with the unreachable ip in the arp cache [2]
- Convert Makefile headers to new style
PR: ports/177368 [1]
PR: ports/176439 [2]
Submitted by: Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> [1], Alexandre RAYNAUD
<alexandre.raynaud@sallanches.fr> [2]
Approved by: Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com> (maintainer)
Update net/fping to version 3.4 and point to the new home.
Merge IPv4 and IPv6 support into net/fping, selectable via options.
Remove the now un-needed net/fping+ipv6
Add common description for IPV4 option, analogous to the IPV6 option
PR: ports/169949 [1], ports/169950 [2]
Submitted by: Rodrigo OSORIO <rodrigo@bebik.net> [1]
Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com> [2]
zeising (final patch version)
Approved by: maintainer, kwm (mentor)
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
