zwoop
July 20, 2018, 5:11am
1
I use the fping for finding the best OpenVPN server when I travel. After upgrading my AR300 to latest firmware (which seems to be LEDE 17.x), there is no longer an fping package :-/. Are there any plans, or hope, for getting such a package? It’s an incredibly useful tool. I tried nping and oping, and neither are as useful as fping.
Thanks!
– Leif
alzhao
July 21, 2018, 4:44pm
2
Can you try to download from Index of /snapshots/packages/mips_24kc/packages/
and install manually? Not sure if it works because of toolchain change.
The ipk on 17.x is compatible with 18.06. It should works as follow:
root@GL-AR300M:~# wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.0-rc1/packages/mips_24kc/packages/fping_4.0-2_mips_24kc.ipk -O /tmp/fping_4.0-2_mips_24kc.ipk
Downloading 'http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06.0-rc1/packages/mips_24kc/packages/fping_4.0-2_mips_24kc.ipk'
Connecting to 148.251.78.235:80
Writing to '/tmp/fping_4.0-2_mips_24kc.ipk'
/tmp/fping_4.0-2_mip 100% |*******************************| 15254 0:00:00 ETA
Download completed (15254 bytes)
root@GL-AR300M:~# opkg install /tmp/fping_4.0-2_mips_24kc.ipk
Installing fping (4.0-2) to root...
Configuring fping.
root@GL-AR300M:~# fping -h
Usage: fping [options] [targets...]
Probing options:
-4, --ipv4 only ping IPv4 addresses
......
zwoop
July 25, 2018, 5:43am
4
Yeh, that worked perfectly, thanks!
– Leif