iputils - Network monitoring tools including ping.
| License: | BSD |
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| 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-20020927-22.el4_8.2.i386 [106 KiB] |
Changelog
by Ondrej Vasik (2010-07-27):
- Resolves: #618613: - clarify ping's -w (deadline) option description |