iputils - Network monitoring tools including ping
| Website: | http://www.skbuff.net/iputils |
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| License: | BSD with advertising and GPLv2+ and Rdisc |
| Vendor: | Scientific Linux |
- Description:
The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network, including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.
Packages
| iputils-20071127-13.el6.x86_64 [118 KiB] |
Changelog
by Ondrej Vasik (2010-07-27):
- Resolves: CVE-2010-2529 - prevent DoS vulnerability in ping |