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Re:Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view by walrus01 on Saturday February 15, 2025 @02:12PM (#43061308)
fping is most commonly seen as the backend tool under the classic (24 years old now, and still maintained) smokeping

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=smokeping...

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Re:Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view by DrPhish on Saturday February 15, 2025 @03:23PM (#43061965)
Smokeping is an amazing and underrated resource as a network health metric and diagnostics tool.

If you have a network monitoring or asset system you can export IP addresses from, you should use a small glue script to automatically build a smokeping configuration. I've got one for our LAN and one for the WAN at each of our sites so I can track down issues at either level.

The LAN connection charts are a great daily sanity check, and the WAN connections (I have every-to-every for each site so any and all inter-site issues can be seen) can help keep your ISP honest with the service they're delivering.

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