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Libping - Makes ICMP_ECHO requests from a script or program

Libping is a small C library designed to allow a programmer to make ICMP_ECHO requests directly from a script or program. The distribution includes pinger, a script-friendly utility linked to the library and intended to be invoked directly from scripts. Unlike most ping utilities, libping will timeout on both unreachable hosts and unreachable networks. It returns a value every time it is called, a feature which makes programming ICMP echo requests simpler and more reliable.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.joedog.org/libping/index.shtml
Source tarballftp://sid.joedog.org/pub/libping/libping-latest.tar.gz
Latest versionftp://sid.joedog.org/pub/libping/libping-latest.tar.gz
Version 1.15 (stable) released on 2002-06-23
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User reference manual available in HTML format from http://www.joedog.org/libping/docs/manual.shtml; User manpage available in HTML format from http://www.joedog.org/libping/docs/man/index.shtml
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License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-08-08
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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