tcping is a command-line network utility that provides ping-style connectivity checks using several probing methods. It offers a convenient way to investigate remote hosts and services, particularly when conventional ICMP echo requests do not provide sufficient information.
The program can examine the responsiveness of network services and produce results suitable for routine diagnostics. Its terminal interface includes coloured output and reporting facilities for reviewing measurements.
tcping is useful for developers and administrators who want a compact alternative to traditional ping. Different probing methods allow the application to investigate network and application-level connectivity from a single command-line interface.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Ping-style testing of remote network destinations.
- TCP connectivity checks against selected ports.
- HTTP request probing for web services.
- ICMP-based connectivity measurements.
- Support for IPv6 destinations.
- Colour-coded terminal output for displaying results.
- Generate reports from completed measurements.
- SSL/TLS-related network testing facilities.
- Unprivileged ICMP support on compatible systems.
- Configurable probing parameters for different testing requirements.
Website: github.com/zhengxiaowai/tcping
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Developer: Knot Space
License: MIT License
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Related Software
| Alternatives to ping | |
|---|---|
| pingnoo | Offers a graphical representation for traceroute and ping output (GUI) |
| hping3 | Supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols with traceroute mode |
| gping | Ping but with a graph |
| GNOME Nettool | Performs ping, netstat, traceroute, port scans, lookup, and whois (GUI) |
| mtr | Combines 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network tool |
| pingtop | Ping multiple servers and show the result in a top like terminal UI |
| pingu | Command implementation in Go but with colorful output and pingu ascii art |
| 2ping | Bi-directional ping tool using 3-way pings (akin to TCP SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK) |
| BWPing | Measures bandwidth and response times between two hosts using ICMP |
| cnping | Minimal graphical IPv4 Ping / HTTP tool |
| fping | Send ICMP echo probes to network hosts |
| SmokePing | Measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss |
| tcping | ICMP ping but for TCP |
| alive | Periodic ping |
| ping3 | Python3 version of ICMP ping |
| echoping | Testing tool for network protocols |
| xping | Continuously probe multiple hosts using icmp-echo |
| omping | Test IPv4/IPv6 multicast connectivity on a LAN |
| Trippy | Network diagnostic tool combining the functionality of ping & traceroute |
| Echo | Simple GUI GTK4 utility to ping websites |
| pingstat | Multi-server ping logging |
| myping | Ping multiple hosts at the same time |
| mtr085 | Fork of mtr adding functionality such as Unicode histograms |
| mtr-gtk | GUI frontend |
| Ping Monitor | Displays real-time ping times (GUI) |
| split ping | See the direction of loss or latency |
| ring | ping rewritten in Rust |
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