Free ping software for linux

PING is a live Linux ISO, based on the excellent RIP (Recovery Is Possible) distribution. PING can be burnt on a CD and booted, or integrated in a PXE / RIS environment.
Several tools have been added and written, so to make this ISO the perfect choice to backup and restore whole partitions, an easy way. It sounds like Symantec Ghost(tm), but has even better features, and is totally free.
Main features:
- Backup and Restore partitions or files to a MS Network Shared directory;
- Backup and Restore the BIOS data as well;
- Either burn a bootable CD / DVD, either integrate within a PXE / RIS environment;
- Possibility to Blank local admins password;
- Create your own restoration bootable DVD (see the Howto Documentation);
- Partition and Format a disk before installing Windows (so to make sure your unattended Windows installation will happen on the right partition);
Specific advantages Linux brings you over DOS and Ghost :
- Most network cards automatically recognized by the Kernel (unlike DOS);
- Most CD/DVD readers automatically recognized by the Kernel (unlike DOS);
- You dont have to run a Ghostcast server to receive images over the network.
Whats New in 2.00 RC7 Development Release:
- NTFS filesystems were not being resized to the maximum size that the partition could contain, though logging reported such.
- An occasional hang on some systems when it came to mount NTFS partitions was fixed.
- For an unknown reason, using NTFS-3G drivers rather than native kernel drivers seems to resolve the issue.
- The kernel was updated to Linux 2.6.22.4.
- Some more network and S-ATA/SCSI drivers have been compiled.

GNU FreeIPMI project provides "Remote-Console" (out-of-band) and "System Management Software" (in-band) based on IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification.
This project includes:
- KCS, SMIC, SSIF, LAN Drivers and C Library (libfreeipmi)
- IPMI Locate - Probe IPMI BMC Device (ipmi-locate)
- FreeIPMI SHell (fish)
- Watchdog Daemon (bmc-watchdog)
- Sensors (sensors)
- System Event Log (sel)
- BMC Info (bmc-info)
- BMC Config (bmc-config)
- IPMI Power (ipmipower)
- IPMI Ping (ipmiping)
- RMCP Ping (rmcpping)
- Gratuitous ARP Daemon (garpd)
- IPMI Raw Interface (ipmi-raw)

PingBlog is a tag generator and ping tool for blog directories such as Blogalaxia, VeneBlogs, Technorati, To2Blogs and others.

collectd is a small daemon which collects system information every 10 seconds and writes the results in an RRD-file. The statistics gathered so far are: (Only Load and CPU usage work under Solaris right now. Ping might work, lm-sensors propably not)
Main features:
- Memory usage
- CPU usage
- System load
- Network traffic
- Network latency (ping)
- System temperatures (if lm-sensors is configured)
- Disk usage
In contrast to most similar software, collectd is not a script but written in plain C for performance and portability. collectd stays in the memory so there is no need to start up a heavy interpreter every time new values should be logged. This allows collectd to have a 10 second resolution while being nice to the system.
collectd reads most information from the /proc-filesystem. Support for the sysfs approach is not yet planned/done, but theres no reason not to do that other than me not having time to code it right now.. Solaris statistics are collected using the kstat mechanismn that appears to be very solaris-specific. Also, its not done yet, version 1.6.0 collects system load and cpu usage, nothing more.
collectd has successfully been tested on x86 under Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge), RedHat Linux 7.x, and Fedora Core 1. Also, Debian/Sparc and Solaris 9 did work. Other Platforms/Distributions are expected to work too. If you manage to compile and run collectd on other systems and/or under different distributions please drop me a line.

mrtg-ping-probe project monitors round trip time and packet loss to another host. Still on my TODO list: add own min/max/avg rtt calculation, add perl ping module, add rping and rsh support...
mrtg-ping-probe is a ping probe for MRTG 2.x. It is used to monitor the round trip time and packet loss to networked devices. MRTG uses its output to generate graphs visualizing minimum and maximum round trip times or packet loss.
mrtg-ping-probe depends on the following software being installed on your system: perl (at least version 5.6.1), mrtg (I use version 2.8.8, though any mrtg 2.x version should work), and a ping program that displays a summary of the round trip times upon termination or timeout.
mrtg-ping-probe runs on AIX, BSD/OS 2.1, FreeBSD/2.2.x, IRIX/6.2, Linux, Mac OS X (Darwin 5.4), NetBSD, OpenBSD, OS/2, OSF1 V3.2, Solaris 1.1.2 (SunOS 4.1.4), Solaris 2.5.1 (SunOS 5.5.1), Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7), Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8), Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9), HP-UX 9, Windows 98, and Windows 2000 (english, french, portugesee, and spanish locales).
If you install the Windows ping program that comes with Windows 98, Windows 2000, or WinSock 2.x, mrtg-ping-probe will also run on Windows 95 and Windows 4.0.
Support for additional systems is usually easy to add, as described in the file INSTALL.
Act responsible: do not use mrtg-ping-probe to ping devices without the owners permission. Just imagine 10,000 people would decide to ping your hosts ... mrtg-ping-probe is meant to be used within your network to get round trip time performance figures for your network.
Usage: mrtg-ping-probe [-hsvV] [-d deadtime] [-k count] [-l length] [-o ping_options] [-p [factor*]{min|max|avg|loss|integer}/[factor*]{min|max|avg|loss|integer}] [-r [rsh:][user@]host[:osname]] [-t timeout] host
Enhancements:
- new platforms supported: italian Windows 2000 locale.
- bugfixes: on Windows actually return deadtime when we lost all packets, not 0. the ping child process should actually be killed now on Unix platforms.
- changes: ***** Possible Incompatability ***** raised minimum required perl version to 5.6.1. lots of typos fixed.

httping is a "ping"-like tool for HTTP requests. Give it a URL and it will show how long it takes to connect, send a request, and retrieve the reply (only the headers).
httping can be used for monitoring or statistical purposes (measuring latency).
Enhancements:
- A big memory leak in the SSL code was fixed.
- An audible ping mode was added.

AutoScan is a utility for network exploration.
The objective of the program is to post the list of all equipment connected to the network. A list of ports preset is scanned for each equipment.
Main features:
- Automatic network discovery
- Entire subnets can be scanned simultaneously without human intervention
- Addition time-reality of the new machines put on the network
- Detection of the OS, brand and model known (Possibility to add an unknown equipment in the database)
- Ability to save the network state
- A Samba share browser
- A Nessus client
- For each machine, one can launch a script (ex:ping, nmap) and display the result
- For each port, one can launch an application (ex:rdesktop for the terminal server service)