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