fping for ICMP Discovery and Monitoring | fping is an ICMP command line utility to verify ICMP reponses from any number of targets. fping is a better choice than ping for scripting tasks as it is able to check a list or range of IP addresses in numerical order to discover ICMP response. I’ll show you some basic info on using fping!
Fast Host Discovery with nmap
Fast Host Discovery with nmap | The easiest way to do host discovery is with nmap. nmap of course offers a variety of ways to probe and map out detected hosts and poke at any open ports or services. But as for a quick discovery, ICMP is ideal to just get a quick assessment of online hosts. I’ll show you how!

