Recommended ping program?

[Member stevesr0]

Hi all,

I have a minimal Sid install and I just realized it doesn’t have a ping command. When I searched, I saw there are numerous ones.

Appreciate recommendations.

Thanks.

stevesr0

[Member sybok]

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When I type
man ping
and hit enter the man-page tells me that ‘ping’ is a part of ‘iputils’.
apt-cache search iputils
lists, among others, ‘iputils-ping’ which is already installed in my case.
And I can happily ‘ping’.

Since already installed and the binary file is located at ‘/bin/ping’, I can list the package that provides it via
dpkg -S /bin/ping
The output is
iputils-ping: /bin/ping
and it confirms the brief info from the man-page.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by sybok. Reason: Add: dpkg -S

[Forum Admin Dave]

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I usually have iputils-ping (ping) and fping installed. Fping only really if I am going to leave it running for a while to get a nice average output at any time without killing the command.

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[Member stevesr0]

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Hi sybok,
Thanks for response.
My install doesn’t have /bin/ping since ping isn’t installed.

Hi Dave,
Thanks for the recommendation. Was that the default ping program when you installed AntiX?
I ask because that is the one on my other antiX computer, which was a “full” install.

stevesr0

[Member PDP-8]

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Does your minimal sid install include busybox? If so you could use that by calling it by name

busybox ping [your url, site, options etc]

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