# fping 3

fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar to ping,
but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts. fping has a long long
story: Roland Schemers did publish a first version of it in 1992 and it has
established itself since then as a standard tool.

_Current maintainer_:  
  David Schweikert \<david@schweikert.ch\>

_Website_:  
  http://fping.org/

_Mailing-list_:  
  https://groups.google.com/group/fping-users

## Credits
Original author:  Roland Schemers (schemers@stanford.edu)
Previous maintainer:  RL "Bob" Morgan (morgan@stanford.edu)
Initial IPv6 Support: Jeroen Massar (jeroen@unfix.org / jeroen@ipng.nl)
Other contributors: see ChangeLog