TCP Ping on Ubuntu

A TCP Ping tool.

Download

$ sudo apt install tcptraceroute
$ sudo wget http://www.vdberg.org/~richard/tcpping -O /usr/bin/tcping
$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/tcping

Usage

$ tcping 127.0.0.1 22
seq 0: tcp response from localhost (127.0.0.1) [open]  0.031 ms
seq 1: tcp response from localhost (127.0.0.1) [open]  0.095 ms
seq 2: tcp response from localhost (127.0.0.1) [open]  0.032 ms
seq 3: tcp response from localhost (127.0.0.1) [open]  0.034 ms
seq 4: tcp response from localhost (127.0.0.1) [open]  0.111 ms
seq 5: tcp response from localhost (127.0.0.1) [open]  0.035 ms
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