pff

Examine your Internet connection quality and status in terminal

Usage

Download pff from releases

To use it globally, copy pff to /usr/bin

You might need to run sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep <path to pff> to give it rights to CAP_NET_RAW

Build

If you don't want to use a released binary version, build pff on your own. Clone this repository

Run cargo build --release in a project root directory. You need Rust and Cargo to build it

A binary file will be available in target/release/pff

Cite

If you use this software in your research, please use the following citation:

@misc{Maczan_pff_2024,
  title = "pff - Modern ping alternative for macOS and Linux",
  author = "{Maczan, Jędrzej Paweł}",
  howpublished = "\url{https://github.com/jmaczan/pff}",
  year = 2022,
  publisher = {GitHub}
}

License

GNU GPL v2

Copyright Jędrzej Paweł Maczan, 2022