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Friday, March 19, 2010
Fast Pinger
Let’s talk about one of my favorite tools: Fping.exe
Fping mostly works like the well known ping command that’s available in every windows/unix/linux OS, but gives you some more options that make it a tool to use when testing failover technologies in your network.
Let’s look at the additional options from the fping.exe command that aren’t available from the ping.exe command :
One might wonder when this option is useful. Have you ever tried to determine the MTU of a particular network? Testing it with best guesses using the “-f don’t fragment flag” option combined with the “-l ” option in the ping command? Here’s how to determine the MTU using fping.exe in a single command:
Fping 10.0.0.1 -S1400/1500 –t1 –f
The output speaks for itself! Another option (I already used in the previous example) is:
Steffen Torn is working as a Senior Network Consultant at Nobel. On a daily basis he's busy advising customers regarding networking and network security. Besides advising he also builds and troubleshoots medium to large networks.
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