[TriLUG] OT: Amiable ping target

[Kevin Otte]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:11:38AM -0400, William Sutton wrote:
> 
> FYI, here is a little keep-alive script I use

Or, if you don't feel like reinventing the wheel:

fping (http://www.fping.com/): A more powerful ping command.  Can use a list
of hosts, eg: fping < hostlist.txt

sntop (http://sntop.sf.net/): Set up a config file (3 lines per host: short
name, ip/hostname, description) and it continually gives host status in
'top' style.  Can even produce HTML output.

Both are available as Debian packages (and thus likely Ubuntu as well). 
I know you can get an RPM of fping.  Don't know about sntop.

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