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Feb 11, 2007. Fping is a ping(1) like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a host is up. Fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of hosts to ping. Instead of trying one host until it. Install or reinstall Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, or XP from scratch. Most of the time, a clean install is the thing you try after one of Windows' automatic repair processes hasn't solved your problem. A clean install will return your computer to pretty much the same state it was in the day you first turned it on.

fping is a small command line tool to send ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) echo request to network hosts, similar to ping, but much higher performing when pinging multiple hosts. fping totally differs from ping in that you can define any number of hosts on the command line or specify a file with the list of IP addresses or hosts to ping.

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For example, using fping, we can specify the complete network range (192.168.0.1/24). It will send Fping request to host and move to another target host in a round-robin fashion. Unlike ping, Fping is meant for basically scripting.

How to Install Fping in Linux Systems

In most Linux distributions, the package fping is available to install from the default package repositories using package management tool as shown.

Alternatively, you can install latest version of fping (4.0) from the source package using following commands.

Let’s see some Fping command with their examples.

1. Fping Multiple IP Address

The below command will fping multiple IP address at once and it will display status as alive or unreachable.

2. Fping Range of IP Address

The following command will fping a specified range of IP addressees. With below output we are sending echo request to range of IP address and getting reply as we wanted. Also cumulative result shown after exit.

3. Fping Complete Network with Different Options

With above command, it will ping complete network and repeat once (-r 1). Sorry, it’s not possible to show output of the command as it is scrolling up my screen with no time.

4. Reads the List of Targets From a File

We have create a file called fping.txt having IP address (173.194.35.35 and 98.139.183.24) to fping.

5. Show Version of Fping

Check the Fping version by executing the command.

Those who want to get more information with options about Fping command, please look into a man page. Also requested to try Fping command in your environment and share your experience with us through the comment box below.

Update: For newer version of pfSense, check out Installation and Configuration of pfSense 2.4.4 Firewall Router.

pfSense is an open source network firewall/router software distribution which is based on the FreeBSD operating system. pfSense software is used to make dedicated firewall/router for a network and it is considered for its reliability and offers many features which mostly found in commercial firewalls. Pfsense can be included with many third party free software packages for additional functionality.

As we are using many popular firewall’s in industry level such as Cisco ASA, Juniper, Check Point, Cisco PIX, Sonicwall, Netgear, Watchguard etc. We can use the pfsense in free of cost with rich web interface to configure all our network components. pfsense supports traffic shapper, virtual ip, Load balancer and much more. It has several Diagnostics tool by default.

This article will guide you through the basic instructions on how to install and configure pfSense version 2.1.5 in a home/office network and offers few basic recommendations which is based on my experience.

Hardware Requirements

1. Pentium II Processor, 256MB RAM, 1GB of HDD Space, CD-ROM.
2. 2 Ethernet Card’s, Pfsense ISO file.

My Environment Setup

pfSense Installation and Configuration

1. First visit the pfSense download page and select your computer architecture and platform. Here I’ve chosen “i368 (32-bit)” as my computer architecture and platform as “LiveCD with installer“, but in your case it would be different, make sure to select and download correct architecture for your system.

2. After selecting the architecture and platform, you will get a list of mirrors to download, make sure to select nearest mirror link to download the image from there.

3. After download completes, the downloaded image must be burn to an CD/DVD media as an ISO image before we start using it. You can use any CD/DVD burning software to burn the image to CD/DVD media.

If incase, you don’t have an CD/DVD drive, you can use Unetbootin tool to create a Live bootable USB media or if you don’t want to follow all these procedures, just go the pfSense download page, there you will get pre-created bootable pfSense images for you USB media, just go there and grab the “Live CD with installer (on USB Memstick)“. Don’t forget to select USB console type before downloading…

4. Now switch on or reboot the target machine, place pfSense CD/DVD or USB stick and set the BIOS options to your booting method (CD/DVD or USB) according to your choice and choose the boot options by pressing a keyboard function keys, usually F10 or F12, pfSense will start booting….

5. As the pfSense starts booting, a prompt is displayed with some options and a countdown timer. At this prompt, press 1 to get install pfsense by default. If we don’t choose any option it will start to boot option 1 by default.

6. Next, press ‘I‘ to install fresh copy of pfsense, If we need to start a recovery use R, to Continue using Live CD choose C within 20 seconds count.

Install pfSense

7. On the next screen, it will ask you to ‘Configure Console‘, just press ‘Accept these settings‘ to move forward for installation process.

8. If you’re new to pfsense, choose ‘Quick/Easy Install‘ option to take make things easier or choose ‘Custom Install‘ to get advance options during installation process (recommended for advance users).

pfSense Custom Install

9. Next, select the disk on which you want to install pfsense.

10. Next, it will ask you to format the selected disk, if it’s new disk you should format or if it contains any important data you should take backup before formatting the disk.

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11. Choose the cylinder size and heads, here I’m using the default settings option ‘Use this Geometry‘ to move forward for the installation.

12. On the next step, it will prompt you a warning about disk format, if you sure about that the disk has no data, just move forward with the selection.

Format Data on Disk

13. Now it’s time to partition the disk.

14. Next, select the partitions you want to have on the disk and enter a raw size in sectors, then accept and create the partition using the specified size or you may move forward with default options.

Select Partition Size

Partition Created

15. Once partition created successfully, it’s time to install bootblocks to get install the boot loader for pfsense.

Bootblock Installation Completed

16. Select a partition to install the pfsense, which also called as slice in BSD.

Note: A warning alert will be displayed, telling that during installing pfsense partition will be overwritten. Click on ‘Ok’ button to continue.

Data Loss Warning Alert

17. Next, setup the subpartitions (also well known as ‘partitions’ in BSD tradition) to create the subpartition.

Setup Subpartitions