A prettier lightweight ping utility written in Rust.
You can either download the latest release from the releases page or compile it yourself. You will need cargo for the compilation. Currently, rustyping only support UNIX platforms (Linux and macOS). If you want it to be supported on other platforms, open an issue.
shell
git clone https://github.com/k4yt3x/rustyping.git
cd rustyping
cargo build --release
cargo install --path .
strip $(which rp)
rustyping's binary will be installed to Cargo's binary directory (e.g., ~/.cargo/bin/rp). You can use the command rp to launch rustyping. Note that programs on Linus require the CAPNETRAW capability to be able to open raw sockets as an non-root user. The command below gives rustyping's binary this capability.
shell
sudo setcap cap_net_raw=+eip $(which rp)
By default, non-root users can send pings at a minimal interval of 200ms or 0.2s. This is to prevent normal users from being able to cause ICMP floods. If you wish to disable this safety feature, you can compile rustyping with the unrestricted feature.
shell
cargo build --release --features unrestricted
You can see the usages using the -h/--help switch.
```console
USAGE:
rp [OPTIONS]
FLAGS: -h, --help Prints help information -V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-c, --count
ARGS: