fping
A command-line ping tool that sends ICMP echo probes to many hosts at once.
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Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install fping
About fping
fping works like ping but is built for probing many hosts in parallel, finishing close to the theoretical time the requested pings take. First published by Roland Schemers in 1992, it is a standard tool for network diagnostics and statistics.
After a long pause in releases, a new maintainer took over in 2011 and rewrote the main loop for performance. The current release is 5.5, and it suits admins checking reachability across whole ranges or feeding monitoring tools.
Strengths
- Pings many hosts in parallel quickly
- Long-established and widely used
- Useful output for scripts and monitoring
Limitations
- Command-line only
- Limited to ICMP reachability checks
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- The fping contributors
- Platforms
- macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Admins checking reachability of many hosts at once
- Categories
- Network tools, CLI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to fping
Compare allSoftware that can replace fping for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
iputils
The Linux ping, tracepath, arping and related network utilities.
iputils provides the standard Linux ping and related utilities, which probe one host at a time instead of many in parallel and run only on Linux.
gping
Ping with a live graph, so you can see latency spikes and packet loss instead of reading a column of numbers.
gping is MIT-licensed, runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and graphs latency for several hosts live, but its output cannot be piped into scripts.
Angry IP Scanner
A fast, friendly IP and port scanner that needs no installation and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Angry IP Scanner adds a graphical interface on Windows, macOS and Linux for sweeping address ranges, and needs a Java runtime for the bare jar.
Similar software
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mtr
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Trippy
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hping3
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Globalping
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Blackbox Exporter
A Prometheus exporter that probes endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, ICMP and gRPC.
arp-scan
Command-line tool that discovers and fingerprints hosts on a local network using ARP.
