Talk:Ping sweep

It looks like the article doesn't describe fping utility correctly. I found better description at http://homepage.mac.com/duling/halfdozen/Smokeping-Howto.html Also note that fping.com is not working any more.

The project was moved to http://fping.sourceforge.net/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dima Medvedev (talk • contribs) 13:09, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Here is the description of fping.

fping

Unlike the standard ping utility, fping sends out multiple ICMP pings concurrently, and tracks the response from each host. You should only ping hosts or sets of IP addresses that you are authorized to probe, because pinging hosts or scanning networks that you do not manage could be viewed as illegal activity. Use fping as shown.

%% fping -e -c 3 192.168.1.1

The "-e" switch shows elapsed RTT, and "-c" gives the number of packets to send. A sample response is below.

192.168.1.1 : [0], 84 bytes, 3.04 ms (3.04 avg, 0% loss)

192.168.1.1 : [1], 84 bytes, 2.11 ms (2.57 avg, 0% loss)

192.168.1.1 : [2], 84 bytes, 2.25 ms (2.46 avg, 0% loss)

192.168.1.1 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 3/3/0%, min/avg/max = 2.11/2.46/3.04

--Dima Medvedev (talk) 09:45, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Expansion
The best source for expanding this article seems to be Hacking Exposed 6th ed. Pcap ping  09:12, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

One could probably make a table with the tools: which platform they run on, free/commercial etc. Pcap ping  09:22, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

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