Port details |
- fping Quickly ping multiple hosts without flooding the network
- 5.3 net
=100 5.0_3Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: jharris@widomaker.com
 - Port Added: unknown
- Last Update: 2025-02-02 18:47:26
- Commit Hash: eba24a3
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- License: PreviousBSD
- WWW:
- https://www.fping.org/
- Description:
- A tool to quickly ping N number of hosts to determine their reachability
without flooding the network.
fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of
hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists
of hosts to ping. Instead of trying one host until it timeouts or
replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next
host in a round-robin fashion. If a host replies, it is noted and
removed from the list of hosts to check. If a host does not respond
within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it will be considered
unreachable.
Unlike ping, fping is meant to be used in scripts and its
output is easy to parse.
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- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - Dependency lines:
-
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/net/fping/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install net/fping
- pkg install fping
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: fping
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1735991851
SHA256 (fping-5.3.tar.gz) = d57bd0141aea082e3adfc198bfc3db5dfd12a7014c7c2655e97f61cd54901d0e
SIZE (fping-5.3.tar.gz) = 197370
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- This port has no dependencies.
- This port is required by:
- for Run
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- net/shmux
- net/sntop
- net-mgmt/librenms
- net-mgmt/netmagis-topo
- net-mgmt/observium
- net-mgmt/smokeping
- net-mgmt/xymon-server
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Deleted ports which required this port:
- * - deleted ports are only shown under the This port is required by section. It was harder to do for the Required section. Perhaps later...
Configuration Options:
- ===> The following configuration options are available for fping-5.3:
IPV6=on: IPv6 protocol support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- net_fping
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
Commit | Credits | Log message |
5.3 02 Feb 2025 18:47:26
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Daniel Engberg (diizzy)  Author: Andre Albsmeier |
net/fping: Update to 5.3
* Replace PORTVERSION with DISTVERSION
* Remove USES= autoreconf
* Remove GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX
* Remove patch (fixed upstream)
* Adjustments to port makefile to more closely follow Porters Handbook
Changelog: https://github.com/schweikert/fping/releases/tag/v5.3
Initial patch submitted by Andre Albsmeier with additions done by
committer
PR: 283648
Approved by: portmgr (maintainer timeout, 1+ month) |
5.0_3 28 Jan 2024 17:04:11
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Gleb Popov (arrowd)  Author: Helge Oldach |
*: Move manpages to share/man
Approved by: portmgr (blanket) |
07 Sep 2022 21:58:51
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Stefan Eßer (se)  |
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner) |
5.0_2 07 Sep 2022 21:10:59
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Stefan Eßer (se)  |
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
(Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
5.0_2 20 Jul 2022 14:22:37
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Tobias C. Berner (tcberner)  |
net: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* <ports@c0decafe.net>
* Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
* Aaron Straup Cope <ascope@cpan.org>
* Aaron Zauner <az_mail@gmx.at>
* Adam Jette <jettea46@yahoo.com>
* Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
* Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
* Alex Bakhtin <Alex.Bakhtin@gmail.com>
* Alex Deiter <Alex.Deiter@Gmail.COM>
* Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
* Alex Dupre <sysadmin@alexdupre.com> (Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
5.0_2 02 Jun 2022 00:46:21
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Craig Leres (leres)  |
net/fping: Avoid ident collisions
fping derives the ident it puts in the outbound packet to from the
low 16 bits of the process id. This means a busy nagios server can
see collisions. More details on this issue and a patch to solve it
here:
https://github.com/schweikert/fping/issues/206
Apply the patch from the github issue:
PR: 264402
Reported by: Case Larsen
Approved by: jharris (maintainer) |
5.0_1 06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
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Mathieu Arnold (mat)  |
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles. |
5.0_1 22 Aug 2020 12:36:18
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dinoex  |
- fix Can't assign requested address
PR: 248647
Approved by: J Harris |
5.0 19 Aug 2020 10:58:16
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fernape  |
net/fping: update to 5.0
ChangeLog: https://github.com/schweikert/fping/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md
PR: 248744
Submitted by: jharris@widomaker.com (maintainer) |
4.4 05 Aug 2020 11:48:16
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fernape  |
net/fping: Update to 4.4
ChangeLog: https://github.com/schweikert/fping/releases/tag/v4.4
* Use official release with MASTER_SITES instead of USE_GITHUB.
PR: 248356
Submitted by: daniel.engberg.lists@pyret.net
Reviewed by: jharris@widomaker.com (maintainer) |
4.2 09 Oct 2019 12:17:15
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bapt  |
Drop the ipv6 virtual category for n* category as it is not relevant anymore |
4.2 19 Jun 2019 20:07:44
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eugen  |
net/fping: fix WITHOUT_IPV6 mode
If one builds and uses net/fping version 4.2 with option IPV6 disabled,
the command fping -4 always fails with wrong error message:
fping: can't specify both -4 and -6
This makes it impossible using fping probes with SmokePing
as it runs fping with -4 option. This change fixes this.
Also, do not install symlinks for fping6 and manual in this case.
PORTREVISION not bumped as default build is not affected.
PR: 238327
Approved by: jharris@widomaker.com (maintainter timeout, 2 weeks) |
4.2 14 Apr 2019 10:59:12
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kai  |
net/fping: Update to 4.2
While I'm here:
* Move options block a bit further down according to the PHB
Changelog:
* New option -x / --reachable to check if the number of reachable hosts is
>= a certain number. Useful for example to implement connectivity-checks
* Allow decimal numbers for '-t', '-i', '-p', and '-Q'
* Fix build with --disable-ipv6
* Fix hang with '-6', with ipv6 kernel module, but not loaded
* Assume '-6' if the binary is named 'fping6' (this is mostly for special
embedded-distro use cases, and not meant to be used generally in place of
compiling IPv6-only binary or using '-6') (Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
4.0_1 15 Aug 2018 23:54:20
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rodrigo  |
Add an option to disable IPv6 support
In jail environment, because fping 4.0 comes
with combined IPv4/IPv6 support, you need to enable
IPv6 for the jail even if you will not use IPv6.
This patch adds an IPV6 option, enabled by default,
but who can be turn off to build fping without IPv6
support and used it inside a jail without IPv6.
PR: 229903
Submitted by: Andrew <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com>
Reported by: Stefan Witzel <stefan.witzel@zvw.uni-goettingen.de>
Approved by: <jharris@widomaker.com> (maintainer) |
4.0 30 Jun 2018 08:49:13
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fernape  |
net/fping: update to 4.0
PR: 229172
Reported by: freebsd_ports@k-worx.org
Approved by: tcberner (mentor) jharris@widomaker.com (maintainer)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15970 |
3.16 21 Apr 2017 07:22:38
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miwi  |
- Update to 3.16
PR: 218381
Submitted by: citrin+pr@citrin.ru
Approved by: maintainer |
3.15 19 Jan 2017 20:50:51
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jhale  |
Update to 3.15
Changes: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/schweikert/fping/master/ChangeLog
PR: 216022
Submitted by: Danilo G. Baio <dbaio@bsd.com.br>
Approved by: Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com> (maintainer) |
3.13 12 Sep 2016 13:01:32
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woodsb02  |
net/fping: Update to 3.13
- Use new official GitHub repo, as website was down from Apr-Sept 2016
- Add USES=autoreconf as GitHub tarball only comes with configure.ac
- Add USES=gmake as manpage generation was failing with pmake
Changes this release:
https://github.com/schweikert/fping/blob/3.13/ChangeLog
PR: 212386
Approved by: jharris@widomaker.com (maintainer), adamw (mentor) |
3.10 23 May 2016 20:35:01
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amdmi3  |
Remove NLS, DOCS, EXAMPLES and IPV6 from OPTIONS_DEFAULT, they are enabled by
default anyway and don't need to be listed
Approved by: portmgr blanket |
3.10 19 May 2016 10:44:12
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amdmi3  |
- Fix trailing whitespace in pkg-descrs, categories [g-n]*
Approved by: portmgr blanket |
3.10 12 May 2014 13:07:36
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ak  |
- Update to 3.10
PR: ports/189476 [1]
PR: ports/189674 [2]
Submitted by: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin+pr@citrin.ru> [1], Jason Harris
<jharris@widomaker.com> (maintainer) [2] |
3.8 28 Feb 2014 12:29:15
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jhale  |
- Update to 3.8 [1]
- Use correct LICENSE [1] (based on)
- Remove abbreviations from COMMENT [2]
- Add additional mirror to MASTER_SITES
PR: ports/186928 [1], ports/181927 [2]
Submitted by: G. Tpdd <gtodd@bellanet.org> [1],
Kenta S. <kentas@hush.com> [2]
Approved by: Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com> (maintainer) |
3.5 10 Feb 2014 17:57:29
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mat  |
Convert to staging.
Sponsored by: Absolight |
3.5 10 Feb 2014 17:30:18
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mat  |
It's already there too.
Pointy hat to: ehaupt and bapt
Sponsored by: Absolight |
3.5 10 Feb 2014 13:54:28
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ehaupt  |
According to the Porter's Handbook (5.12.2.3.) default options must be added to
OPTIONS_DEFINE. This policy has been implemented only recently that's why we
have many ports violating this policy.
This patch adds the default options specified in the Porter's Handbook to
OPTIONS_DEFINE where they are being used. Ports maintained by
gnome@FreeBSD.org, kde@FreeBSD.org and x11@FreeBSD.org have been excluded.
Approved by: portmgr (bapt) |
3.5 20 Sep 2013 22:10:25
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bapt  |
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
net) |
3.5 16 Jun 2013 21:52:44
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wg  |
net/fping: update to 3.5
- Update to 3.5
- Add LICENSE (GFDL)
PR: ports/178833
Submitted by: Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com> (maintainer)
Approved by: culot / jpaetzel (mentors, implicit) |
3.4_1 22 Apr 2013 15:44:41
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ak  |
- Add timestamps option (used by netperf-wrapper) [1]
- Fix fping issue with the unreachable ip in the arp cache [2]
- Convert Makefile headers to new style
PR: ports/177368 [1]
PR: ports/176439 [2]
Submitted by: Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> [1], Alexandre RAYNAUD
<alexandre.raynaud@sallanches.fr> [2]
Approved by: Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com> (maintainer) |
3.4 24 Sep 2012 09:16:00
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zeising  |
Update net/fping to version 3.4 and point to the new home.
Merge IPv4 and IPv6 support into net/fping, selectable via options.
Remove the now un-needed net/fping+ipv6
Add common description for IPV4 option, analogous to the IPV6 option
PR: ports/169949 [1], ports/169950 [2]
Submitted by: Rodrigo OSORIO <rodrigo@bebik.net> [1]
Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com> [2]
zeising (final patch version)
Approved by: maintainer, kwm (mentor) |
2.4b2_1 20 Mar 2011 12:54:45
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miwi  |
- Get Rid MD5 support |
2.4b2_1 08 Sep 2007 13:31:22
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edwin  |
ports/net/fping patch to add -S source_addr option
Several people have produced some patches for fping that adds an
option to select the IP source_address for queries and some have
said they submitted them to the sourceforge fping maintainer.
Since I did not see any official fping distributions that include
any of those patches, I recently Cc-ed the sourceforge fping
maintainer's address in a question to the smokeping mailing-list
asking about that patch but so far I have heard back only from
that list with a pointer to a debian patch. Per request from
Jason Harris, I include here a copy of the patch that is usable
in ports/net/fping/files that adds that option.
PR: ports/111549
Submitted by: Philip Kizer <pckizer@nostrum.com>
Approved by: maintainer timeout |
2.4b2 19 Jul 2007 21:37:13
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gabor  |
- Remove distinfo hashes, which are not used officially
No objection from: ports@, maintainers
Approved by: portmgr (pav) |
2.4b2 23 Mar 2007 20:36:00
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pav  |
- Fix fetch: mirror on maintainer's site
PR: ports/110727
Submitted by: Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com> (maintainer) |
2.4b2 11 May 2006 22:49:56
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edwin  |
Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with N |
2.4b2 20 Jul 2005 02:25:28
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leeym  |
- allow 0 retries [1]
- remove s/microsecond/millisecond/ [1]
- use PLIST_FILES, remove pkg-plist [2]
- add SHA256 hash to distinfo [2]
PR: [1] ports/83339
[2] ports/83757
Submitted by: [1] Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>
[2] Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com> |
2.4b2 06 Jan 2004 09:47:22
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pav  |
Forced commit to note addition of SHA1, RMD160 and SIZE fields.
Requested by: erwin |
2.4b2 05 Jan 2004 20:06:18
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pav  |
- Give maintainership to volunteer
PR: ports/60952
Submitted by: Jason Harris <jharris@widomaker.com> |
2.4b2 25 Oct 2003 19:38:56
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krion  |
- Fix build on -current
- Pet portlint
Reported by: bento (kris) |
2.4b2 24 Sep 2003 09:37:11
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osa  |
Make portlint(1) happy by changing strip to ${STRIP_CMD}
Submitted by: Oleg Karachevtsev <ok@etrust.ru>
PR: 56998 |
2.4b2 20 Feb 2003 18:51:13
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knu  |
De-pkg-comment. |
2.4b2 07 Jul 2002 22:08:19
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anders  |
Update to 2.4b2.
IPv6 support gained.
Master site moved.
Add WWW URL. |
2.2b1 23 Jun 2002 06:04:01
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ijliao  |
Replace ${PERL} with ${REINPLACE_CMD}
PR: 39668
Submitted by: Oliver Braun <obraun@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> |
2.2b1 30 Apr 2002 18:33:30
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obrien  |
Drop maintainership. I don't use this everyday as I once did |
14 Apr 2001 08:55:41
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obrien  |
Do not treat FreeBSD/Alpha as being braindead as some other OS that runs on
the Alpha platform. |
22 Nov 2000 00:17:18
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obrien  |
Add $FreeBSD$'s which help me in problem reports. |
05 Nov 2000 22:32:31
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obrien  |
Dynamically set the FreeBSD maintainer. |
16 Oct 2000 02:29:29
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kris  |
Chase the checksum; no changes to distfile. |
08 Oct 2000 07:19:09
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asami  |
Convert category net to new layout. |
27 Aug 2000 04:23:48
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obrien  |
Upgrade to version 2.2b1. |
19 Jul 2000 14:10:53
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obrien  |
Fix bogons in my milliseconds => microseconds timeouts change. |