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system environment/daemons

iputils - Network monitoring tools including ping

Website: http://www.skbuff.net/iputils
License: BSD with advertising and GPLv2+ and Rdisc
Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Description:
The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network,
including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol
ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether
the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.

Packages

iputils-20071127-13.el6.src [158 KiB] Changelog by Ondrej Vasik (2010-07-27):
- Resolves: CVE-2010-2529 - prevent DoS vulnerability in ping

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