IP ping

A ping(8) like network utility allowing use of TCP and UDP packets to measure round-trip and packet loss statistics.

Implemented in minimal-dependency pure Python 3.6+ using asyncio-protocol.

Installation

Get it from pypi

pip install --upgrade ipping

Usage

UDP

Sends UDP packets to a running UDP echo server.

Echo server must be running on the machine we want to ping.

Using socat(1):

socat PIPE UDP-RECVFROM:5554,fork

Run ping test:

$ ipping udp 192.168.20.2 5554 -i 0.5 -s 8176 -c 4
PING 192.168.20.2:5554: 8176 data bytes
8192 bytes from 192.168.20.2:5554: time=7.476 ms
8192 bytes from 192.168.20.2:5554: time=7.687 ms
8192 bytes from 192.168.20.2:5554: time=13.941 ms
8192 bytes from 192.168.20.2:5554: time=8.448 ms
--- 192.168.20.2:5554 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 7.476/9.388/13.941/3.064 ms