No fping package in 17.x?

zwoop · 2018-07-20T05:11:50.468Z

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 · 2018-07-21T16:44:41.352Z

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.

kyson-lok · 2018-07-22T01:29:55.505Z

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 · 2018-07-25T05:43:46.101Z

Yeh, that worked perfectly, thanks!

– Leif