Pinger

Pinger helps you to monitor many hosts using ICMP ECHO_REQUEST.

Installation

Download from release page.

Usage

pinger HOSTNAME_OR_IPADDR [HOSTNAME_OR_IPADDR ...]

pinger sends ICMP packets using raw socket, so requires root privileges.

• sudo pinger ...
• run by root
• chown root pinger; chmod 4755 pinger and run by normal user
• setcap cap_net_raw=ep pinger and run by normal user (Linux only)

You can write failed history to a file by redirecting stderr to a file.

$ sudo pinger example.com example.net 192.0.2.1 192.0.2.2 192.0.2.3 2> pinger.log

Two numerical numer are RTT and average of RTT (max latest 10 samples).

Push ESC or C-c to exit.