-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-2031 2012-02-20 02:13:53 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name : fping Product : Fedora 17 Version : 3.0 Release : 1.fc17 URL : http://www.fping.org/ Summary : Scriptable, parallelized ping-like utility Description : fping is a ping-like program which can determine the accessibility of multiple hosts using ICMP echo requests. fping is designed for parallelized monitoring of large numbers of systems, and is developed with ease of use in scripting in mind.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:

Update to fping 3.0 with a new upstream developer. Includes the following changes, compared to the last released version 2.4b2-to-ipv6:

* Debian patches until version 2.4b2-to-ipv6-16. * Modifications by Tobias Oetiker for SmokePing (2.4b2-to4) * Reimplemented main loop for improved performance

Compared to the previous Fedora release, there are several new command line options:

-I if bind to a particular interface -S addr set source address -O n set the type of service (tos) flag on the ICMP packets --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update fping' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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