X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=474a8dd3eb3322548373ed61ace690801cc3baf4;hb=b819ef677ed78ab100559dbbee9f3bfc32e1d61b;hp=b12fd5d39efa5c5a1121c0f47456774f1ca95483;hpb=dcb652b24017634c75badd17816d7496ec2db1d3;p=liboping.git diff --git a/README b/README index b12fd5d..474a8dd 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,37 +1,54 @@ - liboping - Library to ping IPv4 and IPv6 hosts in parallel -============================================================ + liboping – Library to ping IPv4 and IPv6 hosts in parallel +════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ http://verplant.org/liboping/ About ------ +━━━━━ liboping was inspired by ping, libping and fping: It differs from these - existing solutions in that it can `ping' multiple hosts in parallel using + existing solutions in that it can “ping” multiple hosts in parallel using IPv4 or IPv6 transparently. Other design principles were an object oriented interface, simplicity and extensibility. + On top of liboping two command line applications have been built. “oping” is + a drop-in replacement for ping(1) with very similar output. “noping” is an + ncurses-based application which displays statistics while pinging and + highlights aberrant round-trip times. + Features --------- +━━━━━━━━ - * Support for multiple hosts. + • Support for multiple hosts. - * Support for IPv4 and IPv6. + • Support for IPv4 and IPv6. - * Object oriented interface. + • Object oriented interface. Perl bindings -------------- +━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Included in the source package of liboping are bindings for Perl. The code resides in the bindings/ subdirectory and is compiled and installed by - default. To disable building the Perl bindings, call `configure' with - `--without-perl-bindings'. + default. To disable building the Perl bindings, call “configure” with + “--without-perl-bindings”. + + +Licensing terms +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + + liboping is licensed under the “GNU Lesser General Public License” (LGPL), + version 2.1 or later. The exact licensing terms can be found in the file + “COPYING” included in the source distribution of liboping. + + The “oping” and “noping” utilities included in this package are licensed + under the “GNU General Public License” (GPL), version 2. The full licensing + terms can be found online at . Author ------- +━━━━━━ Florian octo Forster