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NAME
oping - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
SYNOPSIS
oping [-4 | -6] [-c count] [-i interval] host [host [host ...]]
oping [-4 | -6] [-c count] [-i interval] -f filename
noping [-4 | -6] [-c count] [-i interval] host [host [host ...]]
noping [-4 | -6] [-c count] [-i interval] -f filename
DESCRIPTION
oping uses ICMPv4 or ICMPv6 ECHO_REQUEST packets to measure a hosts reachability and the
network latency. In contrast to the original ping(8) utility oping can send ICMP packets
to multiple hosts in parallel and wait for all ECHO_RESPONSE packets to arrive. In
contrast to the fping utility (URL is listed in "SEE ALSO") oping can use both, IPv4 and
IPv6 transparently and side by side.
noping is an ncurses-based front-end to liboping which displays ping statistics online and
highlights aberrant round-trip times if the terminal supports colors.
OPTIONS
-4 Force the use of IPv4.
-6 Force the use of IPv6.
-c count
Send (and receive) count ICMP packets, then stop and exit.
-i interval
Send one ICMP packet (per host) each interval seconds. This can be a floating-point
number to specify sub-second precision.
-w timeout
Specifies the time to wait for an "ECHO REPLY" packet before giving up, in seconds.
This can be a floating point number for sub-second precision. Defaults to 1.0 seconds.
-t ttl
Set the IP Time to Live to ttl. This must be a number between (and including)
1 and 255. If omitted, the value 64 is used.
-I address
Set the source address to use. You may either specify an IP number or a hostname. You
cannot pass the interface name, as you can with GNU's ping(8) - use the -D option for
that purpose.
-D interface name
Set the outgoing network device to use.
-f filename
Instead of specifying hostnames on the command line, read them from filename. If
filename is -, read from "STDIN".
If oping is installed with the SetUID-bit, it will set the effective UID to the real
UID before opening the file. In the special (but common) case that oping is owned by
the super-user (UID 0), this means that privileges are temporarily dropped before
opening the file, in order to prevent users from reading arbitrary files on the
system.
If your system doesn't provide saved set-user IDs (this was an optional feature before
POSIX 2001), the behavior is different because it is not possible to temporarily drop
privileges. The alternative behavior is: If the real user ID (as returned by
getuid(2)) and the effective user ID (as returned by geteuid(2)) differ, the only
argument allowed for this option is "-" (i.e. standard input).
-O filename
Write measurements in Comma Separated Values (CSV) format to filename. This option
writes three columns per row: wall clock time in (fractional) seconds since epoch,
hostname and the round trip time in milliseconds.
-Q qos
Specify the Quality of Service (QoS) for outgoing packets. This is a somewhat tricky
option, since the meaning of the bits in the IPv4 header has been revised several
times.
The currently recommended method is Differentiated Services which is used in IPv6
headers as well. There are shortcuts for various predefined per-hop behaviors (PHBs):
be Selects the Best Effort behavior. This is the default behavior.
ef Selects the Expedited Forwarding (EF) per-hop behavior, as defined in RFC 3246.
This PHB is characterised by low delay, low loss and low jitter, i.e. high
priority traffic.
va Selects the Voice Admitted (VA) per-hop behavior, as defined in RFC 5865. This
traffic class is meant for Voice over IP (VoIP) traffic which uses Call Admission
Control (CAC) for reserving network capacity.
afcp
Selects one of 12 differentiated services code points (DSCPs), which are organized
in four classes with three priorities each. Therefore, c must be a number
between 1 through 4 and p must be a number between 1 through 3, for example
"af13", "af22" and "af41". In each class, the lower priority number takes
precedence over the higher priority number.
csn Selects one of the eight Class Selector PHBs. n is a number between 0 through 7.
The class selectors have been defined to be compatible to the Precedence field in
the IPv4 header as defined in RFC 791. Please note that "cs0" is synonymous to
"be".
The old definition of the same bits in the IPv4 header was as Type of Service (ToS)
field, specified in RFC 1349. It defined four possible values which have appropriate
aliases. Please note that this use of the bits is deprecated and the meaning is
limited to IPv4!
lowdelay
Minimize delay
throughput
Maximize throughput
reliability
Maximize reliability
mincost
Minimize monetary cost
Alternatively, you can also specify the byte manually. You can use either a decimal
number (0-255), a hexadecimal number (0x00-0xff) or an octal number (00-0377) using
the usual "0x" and "0" prefixes for hexadecimal and octal respectively.
The printed lines will contain information about the QoS field of received packets if
either a non-standard QoS setting was used on outgoing packets or if the QoS byte of
incoming packets is not zero. In other words, the QoS information is omitted if both,
the outgoing and the incoming QoS bytes are zero. The received byte is always
interpreted as Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) and Explicit Congestion
Notification (ECN), even if the deprecated Type of Service (ToS) aliases were used to
specify the bits of outgoing packets.
-m mark
Linux only Sets the mark (an integer number) on outgoing packets. This can be used by
iptables(8) and other networking infrastructure for filtering and routing.
-u|-U
noping only -u forces UTF-8 output, -U disables UTF-8 output. If neither is given, the
codeset is automatically determined from the locale.
-g none|prettyping|boxplot|histogram
noping only Selects the graph to display.
none
Do not show a graph.
prettyping
Show a graph with time on the x-axis, the y-axis shows the round-trip time. This
is the default graph.
If your terminal supports unicode and colors, they are used to improve the
precision of the data shown: a green box is drawn for round-trip times up to one
third of the configured timeout, the height representing the RTT. Longer RTTs will
start to fill the box yellow (with a green background) and then red (with a yellow
background). Lost packages are drawn as a bold red explamation mark.
boxplot
Show a box plot where the x-axis, i.e. the width of the window, is the round-trip
time. The entire width of the window it the ping interval, set with the -i option.
The box is sized so it contains 50% of the replies. The vertical line shows the
median. The whiskers are sized to contain 95% of the replies -- 2.5% below the
whiskers and 2.5% above.
|----------[#####|##########]--------------------------------------------|
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
2.5% 25% 50% 75% 97.5%
histogram
Show a histrogram of the round-trip times. The width of the window is taken as
round-trip time from 0ms on the left to the interval (the -i option, default
1000ms) on the right.
The height of the graph is scaled so that the most-used buckets vertically fills
the line. The buckets are colored green up to and including the 80th percentile,
yellow up to and including the 95th percentile and red for the remainder.
-H height
Sets the height of the boxs containing each graph. The <height> must be a number
between 1 and 5. The default is 5 lines, which shows the maximum amount of
information. Reducing the size will remove the textual information and will
eventually remove the box drawn around the graph - showing only the graph when set to
1 line.
-b Audible bell. Print a ASCII BEL character (\a or 0x07) when a packet is received
before the timeout occurs. This can be useful in order to monitory hosts' connectivity
without looking physically at the console, for example to trace network cables (start
audible beep, disconnect cable N: if beep stops, the cable was in use) or to tell when
a host returns from a reboot.
This relies on the terminal bell to be functional. To enable the terminal bell, use
the following instructions.
• the visual bell is disabled in your terminal emulator, with the +vb commandline
flag or the following in your .Xresources:
XTerm*visualBell: false
• the PC speaker module is loaded in your kernel:
modprobe pcspkr
• X11 has the terminal bell enabled:
xset b on; xset b 100
• and finally, if you are using PulseAudio, that the module-x11-bell module is
loaded with a pre-loaded sample defined in your pulseaudio configuration:
load-sample-lazy x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/complete.oga
load-module module-x11-bell sample=x11-bell
-P percent
Configures the latency percentile to report. percent must be a number between zero and
100, exclusively in both cases. In general, defaults to 95. If -c is given and a
number less than 20, this would be the same as the maximum. In this case the default
is chosen so that it excludes the maximum, e.g. if -c 5 is given, the default is 80.
The calculated percentile is based on the last 900 packets (15 minutes with the
default interval).
-Z percent
If any hosts have a drop rate higher than percent, where percent is a number between
zero and 100 inclusively, exit with a non-zero exit status. Since it is not possible
to have a higher drop rate than 100%, passing this limit will effectively disable the
feature (the default). Setting the option to zero means that the exit status will only
be zero if all replies for all hosts have been received.
The exit status will indicate the number of hosts with more than percent packets lost,
up to a number of 255 failing hosts.
COLORS
If supported by the terminal, noping will highlight the round-trip times (RTT) using the
colors green, yellow and red. Green signals RTTs that are in the "expected" range, yellow
marks moderately unusual times and times that differ a lot from the expected value are
printed in red.
The information used to categorize round-trip times is the percentile. RTTs in the 80th
percentile are considered to be "normal" and are printed in green. RTTs within the 95th
percentile are considered "moderately unusual" and are printed in yellow. RTTs above that
are considered to be "unusual" and are printed in red.
INTERACTIVE KEYBOARD CONTROLS
When running noping, the type of graph being displayed can be changed by using the g key.
The height of the graph boxes can also be increased and decreased with + and - keys. A
new host can be added at any time with the a key.
SEE ALSO
ping(8), <http://fping.org/>, liboping(3)
LICENSE
oping and noping are licensed under the GPL 2. No other version of the license is
applicable.
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.