[Xymon] Hobbitping/xymonping OR fping?

[Henrik Størner]

On 22-01-2012 17:49, Josh Luthman wrote:
>  From memory, I remember seeing Henrik suggest fping is better to use
> then the included (with Xymon) ping tool.  I can't find any evidence
> of this in the mailing list archives, though.
>
> Is everyone running xymonping now successfully?  Has anyone been
> forced to fping?  Is there an advantage of one over the other?

My own experience is that fping is a bit more reliable in picking up all 
responses when testing many systems.

Since fping also does IPv6 and xymonping doesn't, I have a strong 
inclination to drop xymonping for the IPv6-enabled network tester.


Regards,
Henrik