12 Dec
2013
12 Dec
'13
10:59 p.m.
On 13 Dec 2013, at 09:31, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
i tend to use fping rather than ping to check if a host on the LAN is responding:
fping is less verbose, has a handy -q (quiet) option to suppress output,
fping is also super nice in that it will return immediately on success, but retry 3 times if it initially times out. this gives the host time to return success ping if the first packet is dropped for whatever reason