iputils - Network monitoring tools including ping.
| License: | BSD |
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| Vendor: | CentOS |
- Description:
The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network, including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.
Packages
| iputils-20020927-22.el4.i386 [105 KiB] |
Changelog
by Jiri Skala (2008-10-23):
- Resolves: #465972 Update of iputils starts rdisc, breaking network connectivity - Resolves: #456031 arping introduces a startup dependency on '/usr' filesystem - Resolves: #474386 Regression in arping (iputils-21.el4) - Resolves: #473344 Clarification of ping's -w parameter |