The following package has been recently added to the Cygwin
distribution:
*** ping-1.0-1
Ping is a utility to test IP conectivity of a remote host, sending
ICMP_ECHO_REQUEST packets from the local host to a remote host. The
remote host is considered alive if it replies with a ICMP_ECHO_REPLY
DESCRIPTION:
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP,
HTTPS and FTP, the two most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a
non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from
scripts, cron jobs, terminals without Xsupport, etc.
CYGWIN NEWS:
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