micro-ping

By Abdelfetah Hadij

A minimal implementation of the classical ping command.

Features

• Works on any Unix-like system.
• Configurable interval between ping’s (-i commandline option)
• Configurable number of pings to send (-c commandline option)
• Configurable pattern to send (-p commandline option)
• Flood pinging (-f commandline option)
• Play sound on every response (-a commandline option)

Get the source

Go to GitHub Repository

Download git repository as zip

Dependencies

This program only depends on standard POSIX libraries (i.e. standard libraries present on every UNIX-like system).

Build

In a shell you must run in the main directory of the project :

$ cd build/
$ cmake
$ make

Usage

In the same directory as before (build) you must run the shell as :

./ping [-i interval] [-c count] [-p pattern] [-f] [-a] [-h]
[-i interval] : interval between sent pings in seconds
[-c count] Number of pings to send before exit. If not provided pings are continuously sent until the program is finished (CTRL-C)
[-p pattern] The payload of each packet as an HEX string
[-f] : enable flood pinging (use with caution)[-a] : play an sound on every response received.
[-h] print this help

Last time updated : 30 Mar 2025.