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This is just a quick personal cheat sheet: treat its contents with caution!

`fping`¶

fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts.

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pacmanemergeaptnixyumdnf

# pacman -S fping

# emerge -a net-analyzer/fping

# apt install fping

on NixOSon non-NixOS

# nix-env -iA nixos.fping

# nix-env -iA nixpkgs.fping

# yum install fping

# dnf install fping

fping multiple IPs directly:

$ fping 50.116.66.139 173.194.35.35 98.139.183.24

list alive hosts within a subnet generated from a netmask:
```
$ fping -a -g 192.168.1.0/24
```
list alive hosts within a subnet generated from an IP range:
```
$ fping -a -g 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.254
```
list unreachable hosts within a subnet generated from a netmask:
```
$ fping -u -g 192.168.1.0/24
```

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