Grames Gernot wrote: >>The advantage comes when monitoring thousands hosts. > > > I have thought that the only advantage is the handling concerning Blips > (Brief Outages). > > What other advantages has the fping? > Or where can I read this!
fping is much more efficient because you can give it a long list of hosts which will then be checked 'in parallel'. That means that instead of pinging each host separately, and having to wait for a reply from the first host before you continue with the next one, fping just sends icmp echo requests to all hosts first, and then just waits for the replies to arrive, in whatever order it may be... you can find more information on the fping site: http://www.fping.com/ regards, Tom _______________________________________________ mon mailing list mon@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon