iputils - Network monitoring tools including ping
| Website: | http://www.skbuff.net/iputils |
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| License: | BSD with advertising and GPLv2+ and Rdisc |
| Vendor: | Scientific Linux |
- Description:
The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network, including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.
Packages
| iputils-20071127-17.el6_4.2.x86_64 [119 KiB] |
Changelog
by Jan Synáček (2013-09-17):
- Resolves: #998827 - arping hangs when time is stepped backwards (REFIX) |
| iputils-20071127-17.el6_4.x86_64 [118 KiB] |
Changelog
by Jan Synáček (2013-05-27):
- Resolves: #963927 - arping is not compatible with network namespaces |