NAME

       ping_send - Send ICMP echo requests to all associated hosts and wait for ICMP echo responses to arrive

SYNOPSIS

         #include <oping.h>

         int ping_send (pingobj_t *obj);

DESCRIPTION

       The ping_send method is the actual workhorse of this library. It crafts ICMP packets for the hosts
       associated with obj and sends them via the corresponding sockets. It then waits for echo responses and
       receives them, writing latency information for each host. The method returns after all echo replies have
       been read or the timeout (set with ping_setopt(3)) is reached.

       After this function returns you will most likely iterate over all hosts using ping_iterator_get(3) and
       ping_iterator_next (described in the same manual page) and call ping_iterator_get_info(3) on each host.

RETURN VALUE

       ping_send returns the number of echo replies received or a value less than zero if an error occurred. Use
       ping_get_error(3) to receive an error message.

SEE ALSO

       ping_construct(3), ping_setopt(3), ping_iterator_get(3), ping_iterator_get_info(3), ping_get_error(3),
       liboping(3)

AUTHOR

       liboping is written by Florian "octo" Forster <ff at octo.it>.  Its homepage can be found at
       <http://noping.cc/>.

       Copyright (c) 2006-2017 by Florian "octo" Forster.