1 Net::Oping version 1.00
2 =======================
4 ICMP latency measurement module using the oping library.
6 DESCRIPTION
8 This Perl module is a high-level interface to the oping library. Its purpose
9 it to send "ICMP ECHO_REQUEST" packets (also known as "ping") to a host and
10 measure the time that elapses until the reception of an "ICMP ECHO_REPLY"
11 packet (also known as "pong"). If no such packet is received after a certain
12 timeout the host is considered to be unreachable.
14 The used "oping" library supports "ping"ing multiple hosts in parallel and
15 works with IPv4 and IPv6 transparently. Other advanced features that are
16 provided by the underlying library, such as setting the data sent or
17 configuring the time of live (TTL) are not yet supported by this interface.
19 INSTALLATION
21 This module is compiled and installed in the standard Perl way:
23 perl Makefile.PL
24 make
25 make test
26 make install
28 DEPENDENCIES
30 This module requires the "oping" library to be installed. The library is
31 available at <http://verplant.org/liboping/>.
33 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
35 Copyright (C) 2007 by Olivier Fredj <ofredj at proxad.net>
37 Copyright (C) 2008 by Florian Forster <octo at verplant.org>
39 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
40 under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your
41 option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.