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How to ping multiple hosts at once in Linux

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Apr 4, 2016

fping is similar to PING utility that can used to test the connectivity of computers and network devices in LAN and WAN. fping will send a ICMP Echo request to one host, and move to the another host in a round-robin fashion.

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