Free icmp ping software for linux

ICMPInfo is a tool that uses ICMP type 13 and 17 to retrieve the current time of a remote host and its netmask.

ICMPScan scans the specified address, or addresses, for ICMP responses.

Usage:

icmpscan [ -EPTSNMAIRcvbn ] [ -A address ] [ -f filename ] [ -i interface ] [ -r retries ] [ -t timeout ] target [...]

Options:

-i, --interface
Listen on the specified interface. If unspecified, icmpscan will examine the routing table and select the most appropriate interface for each target address.
-c, --promisc
Put in interface into promiscuous mode. As this option increases the load on the system in general, it should only be used if spoofing of source packets address is enabled with the "-A" option.
-A, --address
Specify the source IP address of generated packets.
-t, --timeout
Specify the timeout, in milli-seconds, before retrying.
-r, --retries
Specify the number of attempts to elicit a particular ICMP response.
-f, --file
Read target list from the specified file.
-E, -P, --echo, --ping
Check of ICMP Echo responses.
-T, -S, --timestamp
Check for ICMP Timestamp responses.
-N, -M, --netmask
Check for ICMP Netmask responses.
-I, --info
Check for ICMP Info responses.
-R, --router
Check for ICMP Router Solicitation responses.
-v, --verbose
Increase the output verbosity.
-B, --debug

Target Specification

The simplest case is listing single hostnames or IP addresses on the command line. If you want to scan a subnet of IP addresses, you can append /mask to the hostname or IP address. mask must be between 0 (scan the whole Internet) and 32 (scan the single host specified). Use /24 to scan a class "C" address and /16 for a class "B". There is also a more powerful notation which lets you specify an IP address using lists/ranges for each element. Thus you can scan the whole class "B" network 192.168.*.* by specifying "192.168.*.*" or "192.168.0-255.0-255" or even "192.168.1-50,51-255.1,2,3,4,5-255". And of course you can use the mask notation: "192.168.0.0/16". These are all equivalent. If you use asterisks ("*"), remember that most shells require you to escape them with back slashes or protect them with quotes.

Examples:

The following example checks the first 16 addresses in the 192.168.1.0/24 netblock for all ICMP responses. The scan speed is increased by lowering the timeout value and setting the number of retries to 1:

> icmpscan -t 500 -r 1 192.168.1.0-16
192.168.1.0: Echo (From 192.168.1.17!)
192.168.1.0: Address Mask [255.255.255.0] (From 192.168.1.17!)
192.168.1.7: Echo
192.168.1.7: Timestamp [0x03ab2db0, 0x02d4c507, 0x02d4c507]
192.168.1.7: Address Mask [255.255.255.0]
192.168.1.8: Echo
192.168.1.8: Address Mask [255.255.255.0]
To display failed probes, increase the output verbosity:

> icmpscan -v 192.168.1.1
192.168.1.1: -- No response to Echo request --
192.168.1.1: -- No response to Timestamp request --
192.168.1.1: -- No response to Netmask request --
192.168.1.1: -- No response to Info request --
192.168.1.1: -- No response to Router Solicitation request --
Individual ICMP types can be checked for by listing their corresponding flags on the command line:

> icmpscan -v --echo --netmask 192.168.1.7
192.168.1.7: Echo
192.168.1.7: Address Mask [255.255.255.0]

KDE Ping is a network/IP ping utility for KDE.

WMPing is a small dockable application for checking the state of hosts.
It show "up" status for a host that is available (ping packets are returned to you) and "down" status for a host that cannot be pinged.
Enhancements:
- fixed CPU usage
To compile:
# aclocal
# automake -a -c
# autoconf
# ./congigure
# make
To install:
You must be the superuser for typing:
# make install

MultiPing provides a multi-protocol, multi-host, graphical ping utility.

MultiPing is a multi-protocol, multi-host, graphical ping utility, used to ensure a set of hosts are up and running and providing the expected services.

Currently, the supported protocols are ICMP Echo, HTTP, SMTP, and POP. This goes beyond simply using ICMP Echo to determine the status of a server to actually testing the protocols the server is expected to be providing.

MultiPing is provided as a runnable .jar file. You should be able to simply double-click the multiping.jar file to launch MultiPing. You can then right-click in the main window to access the context menu which will allow you to add, edit, and delete hosts from the list.

Each host can have one or more of the supported protocols enabled. For each enabled protocol zero or more arguments can be provided which are used to status the specified protocol.

A file will be created in the same directory as multiping.jar named multiping.dat. This stores the list of hosts, along with the protocols enabled for each host and the arguments to each enabled protocol.

liboping was inspired by ping, libping and fping: liboping differs from these existing solutions in that it can `ping multiple hosts in parallel using IPv6 or IPv4 transparently.
Other design principles were an object oriented interface, simplicity and extensibility.
Since version 1.0 has not yet been reached the interface is not yet stable. However, huge changes are not to be expected.
A simple binary, called oping is included. It is like ping, ping6, and fping rolled into one.
Enhancements:
- A case in which file descriptors would not be closed correctly has been fixed.
- The includes have been corrected and C++ support has been improved.

fping is a ping like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a host is up. 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.

Problem and Issues:

With a large a number of IP addresses in use, its becomes more and more time consuming to check on which IP addresses are actively in use, and which critical machines (routers, bridges, servers, etc) are reachable. One example is we have a program which goes through all of our routers arp caches looking for IP addresses that are in use. After finding a list of IP addresses that arent in any arp caches fping can then be used to see if these IP addresses really arent being used, or are just behind the routers. Checking 2500 hosts (99% of which are unreachable) via ping can take hours.

fping was written to solve the problem of pinging N number of hosts in an efficient manner. By sending out pings in a round-robin fashion and checking on responses as they come in at random, a large number of hosts can be checked at once.

Unlike ping, fping is meant to be used in scripts and its output is easy to parse.