fping in PASE IBM i , build yours from sources

Feel lost in IBM i PASE without some basic net troubleshooting tool?
Feel ping-envy and ping-curious? You prefer "modern" (ehm, cough) SSH terminal to dirty ol' cheap 5250? Need to ping a range of hosts? or pipe them from other commands, pipe them from a db table and get the result in json? No love for that in the IBM repo? Don't despair, download and build the nice tool originated in the nineties! Tradition and features, what's not to like?

Adjust --prefix to your own likings, it's where it will get installed.

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wget https://www.fping.org/dist/fping-5.5.tar.gz

gunzip fping-5.5.tar.gz

tar xvf fping-5.5.tar

cd fping-5.5

./configure --prefix=/QOpenSys/usr CC=/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/gcc CPPFLAGS="-I/QOpenSys/pkgs/include -D_SIGSET_T -DHAVE_STDLIB_H -DIP_RECVTOS=0" CFLAGS="-g -O2"

make install

fping --help

man fping

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enjoy, Francesco