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tcping-rs

🌐 A TCP ping utility to determine reachability of a TCP port, using Rust.

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Installation

This project is built with Rust and Cargo. To install Rust and Cargo, follow the instructions here.

To build the project, navigate to the project directory and run:

cargo build --release

This will create an executable in the ./target/release directory.

Running

To run the executable, navigate to the ./target/release directory and run:

./target/release/tcping

Usage

tcping <host:port> [-c count] [-t]

Where:

• host:port is the host and port to ping
• -c count is the number of times to ping the host (default: 4)
• -t enables continuous pinging
• -h displays help
• -V displays version

About

This tool allows you to measure the latency to a server using TCP. It is built with Rust and uses the clap library for command line argument parsing.