liboping is a C library to generate ICMP echo requests, better known as
"ping packets". It is intended for use in network monitoring applications
or applications that would otherwise need to fork ping(1) frequently.

liboping was inspired by ping, libping (homepage vanished) and fping:
It differs from these 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: Is simple
because there are only a few interface functions and no external
dependencies. It's extensible since all (internal) data is kept in "opaque
data types", so the storage may change or be extended without applications
noticing it.

• Michael Shigorin

• liboping
• liboping-devel
• oping