Package: iputils-ping Source: iputils Version: 3:20240905-3 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Noah Meyerhans Installed-Size: 187 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libidn2-0 (>= 0.6) Recommends: linux-sysctl-defaults Provides: ping Section: net Priority: important Multi-Arch: foreign Homepage: https://github.com/iputils/iputils/ Description: Tools to test the reachability of network hosts The ping command sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a host in order to test if the host is reachable via the network. . This package includes a ping6 utility which supports IPv6 network connections.