-fping README
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+fping 3 README
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+fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping,
+but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts. fping has a long long
+story: Roland Schemers did publish a first version of it in 1992 and it has
+established itself since then as a standard tool.
-Current maintainer:
-
-David Schweikert <david@schweikert.ch>
+Current maintainer:
+ David Schweikert <david@schweikert.ch>
-fping website: http://www.fping.org
+Website:
+ http://www.fping.org
Original author: Roland Schemers (schemers@stanford.edu)
IPv6 Support: Jeroen Massar (jeroen@unfix.org / jeroen@ipng.nl)
to enable IPV6 compile with -DIPV6
-Suggestions and patches:
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-Original README from 1992! 5 years ago? Time flies...
+Original README (from 1992!)
fping - A tool to quickly ping N number of hosts to determine
their reachability.