Source: fping Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Axel Beckert Standards-Version: 4.5.0 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Homepage: https://www.fping.org/ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fping.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fping Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: fping Architecture: any Depends: libcap2-bin [linux-any], netbase, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Enhances: netdata (>= 1.5) Description: sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts fping is a ping like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a target host is responding. fping differs from ping in that you can specify any number of targets on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of targets to ping. Instead of sending to one target until it times out or replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next target in a round-robin fashion.