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- liboping - Library to ping IPv4 and IPv6 hosts in parallel
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+ liboping – Library to ping IPv4 and IPv6 hosts in parallel
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http://verplant.org/liboping/
About
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liboping was inspired by ping, libping and fping: It differs from these
- existing solutions in that it can `ping' multiple hosts in parallel using
+ existing solutions in that it can “ping” multiple hosts in parallel using
IPv4 or IPv6 transparently. Other design principles were an object oriented
interface, simplicity and extensibility.
+ On top of liboping two command line applications have been built. “oping” is
+ a drop-in replacement for ping(1) with very similar output. “noping” is an
+ ncurses-based application which displays statistics while pinging and
+ highlights aberrant round-trip times.
+
Features
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- * Support for multiple hosts.
+ • Support for multiple hosts.
- * Support for IPv4 and IPv6.
+ • Support for IPv4 and IPv6.
- * Object oriented interface.
+ • Object oriented interface.
Perl bindings
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Included in the source package of liboping are bindings for Perl. The code
resides in the bindings/ subdirectory and is compiled and installed by
- default. To disable building the Perl bindings, call `configure' with
- `--without-perl-bindings'.
+ default. To disable building the Perl bindings, call “configure” with
+ “--without-perl-bindings”.
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+
+Licensing terms
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+ liboping is licensed under the “GNU Lesser General Public License” (LGPL),
+ version 2.1 or later. The exact licensing terms can be found in the file
+ “COPYING” included in the source distribution of liboping.
+
+ The “oping” and “noping” utilities included in this package are licensed
+ under the “GNU General Public License” (GPL), version 2. The full licensing
+ terms can be found online at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>.
Author
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Florian octo Forster <octo at verplant.org>