#fping

Network Mapping is the technique through which you map the architecture of a network. It works simply that means after getting information from Whois database and Domain Name system, Its time when you know the ranges of IP addresses and confirming the “Live” targets. We find live targets with the help of ICMP port probes and ping sweeps.

Actual Stuff we have to map out is ->

1. IP Ranges

2. router

I figured I ought to start learning PowerShell if I'm going to make it in the IT world, so I put together a script that wraps around fping.exe to make exercises in my routing & switching class a tiny bit less tedious.

The gist of it is that I can call "up 192.168.1.254,192.168.2.254,192.168.3.254 -loop -beepdown" to find out if the changes bring down any addresses.

The trickiest part was figuring out how to wrap it so that it would run elevated -- fping doesn't mesh well with UAC.

The formula for fping was recently updated to version 2.4b2_to-ipv6.

To install fping on your Mac, open your Terminal application and run the following commands;

brew update brew install fping

 The updated formula is as follows:

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require 'formula' class Fping < Formula url 'http://fping.sourceforge.net/download/fping.tar.gz' homepage 'http://fping.sourceforge.net/' md5 'd5e8be59e307cef76bc479e1684df705' version '2.4b2_to-ipv6' def install system "./configure", "--disable-debug", "--disable-dependency-tracking", "--prefix=#{prefix}", "--mandir=#{man}" system "make install" end end

Currently fping has no dependencies in homebrew.