schweikert/fping

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

fping is a high-performance command-line tool that sends ICMP echo requests to any number of network hosts, pinging them in a round-robin fashion instead of one at a time. It is designed for use in scripts and monitoring setups, with easily parseable output and support for IPv4 and IPv6.

Use cases

• ping many hosts at once from the command line
• check which hosts on a subnet are alive
• script network reachability checks with parseable output
• monitor host uptime statistics over time
• discover responsive devices on a network
• run ping sweeps inside rootless containers

When to choose

• you need to ping dozens or thousands of hosts efficiently
• you want script-friendly output for network monitoring or SmokePing-style setups
• you need a battle-tested standard tool with IPv6 and unprivileged-mode support

When to avoid

• you only need to ping a single host occasionally (plain ping suffices)
• you need TCP/UDP-based probes rather than ICMP echo
• you need a GUI or long-term dashboard rather than a CLI tool

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

networking monitoring cli networking monitoring cli cross-platform icmp ping network-discovery network-monitoring scripting unix-command command-line devops linux macos

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