Fping is a console program, much like the ping program that comes with windows. Fping has the same options as the regular ping, and several options that are unique: - Time between pings can be adjusted at wish, ranging from 1ms to 5s. 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 very long history: Roland Schemers did publish a first version of it in 1992 and it has established itself since then as a standard tool for network diagnostics and statistics. The fping plugin supports monitoring latency, packet loss and uptime of any number of network end points, by pinging them with fping. A recent version of fping is required (one that supports option -N ).
Hmm… two posts in a row about stuff I've used for years that have now gone offline. There's a statement here about the so called longevity of things in the digital era. Hey, looking at the calendar widget at the right of this blog, it just hit 10 years of age!
fping, apparently short for 'Fast Pinger', is a really handy tool I use when I want a simple way to monitor an IP address over a period of hours or days. A ping response implies that at least the Internet connection and router/firewall at the remote location are up – so any claimed problems would be further downstream. The built in ping in Windows does not have a date or time stamp, so it isn't useful for longer term tracking. And a lot of intermittent problems really do need to be monitored over periods of time.
e.g. fping google.com -D -T -l -c -L F:templog.txt
will get you results something like this (on screen and in the text file):
2017/11/10 17:13:57.780 : Reply[1] from google.com: bytes=32 time=42.6 ms TTL=56
2017/11/10 17:13:58.824 : Reply[2] from google.com: bytes=32 time=43.1 ms TTL=56
2017/11/10 17:13:59.869 : Reply[3] from google.com: bytes=32 time=43.1 ms TTL=56
There are a ton of other options… but, I haven't played with them much.
Install Fping Windows 10
Originally from http://www.kwakkelflap.com (which is now just serving ads). By Wouter Dhondt – Thanks Wouter!
I haven't been able to find any new address for the tool, so, I've decided to host a copy.
This is the latest version that I could find (using archive.org from September 2015): fping300.zip
Not to be confused with fping on Linux (Unix?) which is entirely different.
Tags: fping, ip, monitor, ping, uptime
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