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| author | Sergei Kolobov <sergei@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-12-17 17:24:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Sergei Kolobov <sergei@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-12-17 17:24:58 +0000 |
| commit | d11936114f4a6fa2a85717456d4f2663888a02e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 437b41d8f6c20bf61b0a4ad8b6604f0f615def26 /net/tcping/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 289ced7fc41f01609afaad71a0f8671ca1e70467 (diff) | |
| download | ports-d11936114f4a6fa2a85717456d4f2663888a02e7.tar.gz ports-d11936114f4a6fa2a85717456d4f2663888a02e7.zip | |
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diff --git a/net/tcping/pkg-descr b/net/tcping/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..19eef0a7b662 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/tcping/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +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://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~kirchner/tcping/tcping.html |