Description: Ping is a utility which uses ICMP echo request to find out if the host machine is up or not. This utility is part of windows as well as linux operating system. But the default ping utility in windows operating system doesn’t provide rich command line options like changing the delay between two ping packets or sending ping message to multiple hosts. Fping provides the very rich command line options, so that one can ping number of different hosts it can also take input from file or change the data size or data content of the ICMP ping packet. Fping can be easily used in script and its output can be easily parsed. <p> This video initially explains the different use cases of fping and then explains with detailed demo the following two options </p>
-s Data size in bytes. This can be up to 65500
-S Size sweep. Ping with size1, size1+1 … up to size2
