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Diffstat (limited to 'net/tcping/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/tcping/pkg-descr | 17 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/tcping/pkg-descr b/net/tcping/pkg-descr index dc66d940f58a..8a817cb32706 100644 --- a/net/tcping/pkg-descr +++ b/net/tcping/pkg-descr @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@ -tcping does a TCP connect to the given ip/port combination. -The user can specify a timeout in seconds. -This is useful in shell scripts running in firewalled environments. -Often SYNs are just being dropped by firewalls, -thus connection establishment will be retried several times -(for minutes) until a TCP timeout is reached. -With tcping it is possible to check first if the desired port +tcping does a TCP connect to the given ip/port combination. +The user can specify a timeout in seconds. +This is useful in shell scripts running in firewalled environments. +Often SYNs are just being dropped by firewalls, +thus connection establishment will be retried several times +(for minutes) until a TCP timeout is reached. +With tcping it is possible to check first if the desired port is reachable and then start connection establishment. -Author: Marc Kirchner <mail(at)marc(dash)kirchner(dot)de> -WWW: http://www.linuxco.de/tcping/tcping.html +WWW: http://www.linuxco.de/tcping/tcping.html |