Cisco-like ping?

[Jez Hancock]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:14:21AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knew of an alternate ping utility, notably one
> that can print things in the cisco "!" and "." format for doing extended
> line tests?
> 
> I've gotten one installed under FreeBSD before, but have NO IDEA where I
> found it now.  (I recall the -k option was the one that did the cisco
> trick).
> 
> I think it MIGHT have been from the linux netutils, but I can't recall how
> or where I had found it.
> 
> And searching google for this is useless.
Have a look at the 'portsearch' tool here:

/home/munk/ports/Tools/scripts/portsearch

A quick search using:

portsearch -i "\bping\b"

returned 9 ping related tools in the ports tree, hopefully one of them helps you out.

>From experience I know fping to be easy enough to integrate into a
custom script.

Port:	p5-POE-Component-Client-Ping-0.98
Path:	/usr/ports/devel/p5-POE-Component-Client-Ping
Info:	POE component for non-blocking/concurrent ICMP ping
Maint:	skv at FreeBSD.org
Index:	devel perl5 net
B-deps:	p5-Compress-Zlib-1.31 p5-Event-0.87 p5-Filter-1.30 p5-POE-0.27 p5-
        Storable-2.08 p5-Time-HiRes-1.51,1
R-deps:	p5-Compress-Zlib-1.31 p5-Event-0.87 p5-Filter-1.30 p5-POE-0.27 p5-
        Storable-2.08 p5-Time-HiRes-1.51,1


Port:	nsping-0.8
Path:	/usr/ports/dns/nsping
Info:	"DNS \"ping\""
Maint:	roam at FreeBSD.org
Index:	dns
B-deps:	
R-deps:	


Port:	arping-1.07
Path:	/usr/ports/net/arping
Info:	ARP level "ping" utility
Maint:	roman at xpert.com
Index:	net
B-deps:	libnet-1.0.2a,1
R-deps:	


Port:	echoping-5.0.1
Path:	/usr/ports/net/echoping
Info:	A ping-like program that uses tcp and/or http
Maint:	sumikawa at FreeBSD.org
Index:	net ipv6
B-deps:	
R-deps:	


Port:	fping-2.4b2
Path:	/usr/ports/net/fping
Info:	Quickly ping N hosts w/o flooding the network
Maint:	ports at FreeBSD.org
Index:	net ipv6
B-deps:	
R-deps:	


Port:	mtr-0.54
Path:	/usr/ports/net/mtr
Info:	Traceroute and ping in a single graphical network diagnostic tool
Maint:	billf at FreeBSD.org
Index:	net ipv6
B-deps:	expat-1.95.6_1 gettext-0.12.1 gmake-3.80_1 libiconv-1.9.1_3
R-deps:	


Port:	poink-1.6
Path:	/usr/ports/net/poink
Info:	Nosuid, secure ping like utility
Maint:	ports at freebsd.org
Index:	net
B-deps:	unzip-5.50_2
R-deps:	


Port:	uplog-0.2
Path:	/usr/ports/net/uplog
Info:	UDP-based ping programm
Maint:	krion at FreeBSD.org
Index:	net
B-deps:	libgnugetopt-1.2
R-deps:	libgnugetopt-1.2


Port:	wping-0.1a
Path:	/usr/ports/net/wping
Info:	A Web-based graphical ping log
Maint:	mich at FreeBSD.org
Index:	net
B-deps:	
R-deps:	freetype2-2.1.5_1 gd-2.0.15_1,1 jpeg-6b_1 p5-GD-2.07 p5-Time-HiRes-
        1.51,1 png-1.2.5_2

Number of matching ports = 9

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Jez Hancock
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