On 13 Dec 2013, at 09:31, Craig Sanders <[email protected]> wrote:

> i tend to use fping rather than ping to check if a host on the LAN is
> responding:
> 
> fping is less verbose, has a handy -q (quiet) option to suppress output,

fping is also super nice in that it will return immediately on success,
but retry 3 times if it initially times out. this gives the host time to
return success ping if the first packet is dropped for whatever reason
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