viknet / cnping

Minimal Graphical IPV4 Ping Tool

cnping

Minimal Graphical IPV4 Ping/HTTP Ping Tool. (also comes with searchnet, like nmap but smaller and simpler). It uses rawdraw so it is OS independent.

Usage: cnping [host] [period] [extra size] [y-axis scaling] [window title]

	 [host]                 -- domain or IP address of ICMP ping target, or http://[host] i.e. http://google.com
	 [period]               -- period in seconds (optional), default 0.02
	 [extra size]           -- ping packet extra size (above 12), optional, default = 0
	 [const y-axis scaling] -- use a fixed scaling factor instead of auto scaling (optional)
	 [window title]         -- the title of the window (optional)

Picture:

If an http host is listed, the default request is HEAD /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1 since this is usually a very fast, easy operation for the server. If a specific file or uri is requested, that will be requested instead, i.e. http://github.com/cnlohr will request HEAD /cnlohr HTTP/1.1.

If a regular hostname is requested instead, ICMP (regular ping) will be used.

This allows cnping to be operated in environments where ICMP is prohibited by local computer or network policies.

Installation:

Ubuntu:

sudo apt install libxinerama-dev libxext-dev libx11-dev build-essential
make linuxinstall

'linuxinstall' builds the tool and copies it to your usr/local/bin folder, and sets the sticky bit or appropriate permissions allowing it to run as though it were root, allowing it to create raw sockets.

sudo cp cnping /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +s /usr/local/bin/cnping

Note that if only http pinging is requested, you do not need root access.

Archlinux:

cnping-git in the Arch User Repository