freebsd-ports/net/tcping/pkg-descr
Emanuel Haupt a27d58c560 The original author has uploaded the same version of the code to GitHub. But has
not yet tagged the release. A request to do so is pending until then keep
using archived tarball.

Update WWW, unbreak, and modernize port.

Take maintainership.
2019-10-08 14:54:56 +00:00

9 lines
483 B
Plaintext

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.
WWW: https://github.com/mkirchner/tcping