rosping is the tool to send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts and send back to you as rostopic message
rosping Usage
rosping <host>
send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to <host>
host: network address or hostname to ping
Examples
$ rosrun rosping rosping 8.8.8.8 32 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=131, ttl=45, time=40.958 ms 32 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=132, ttl=45, time=40.856 ms $ rostopic echo ping/delay data: 40.903 --- data: 40.961
ROS API
rosping
rosping is a node that publish ping result of hostanamePublished Topics
~delay (std_msgs/Float)- Network Delay(sec) between current machine and hostnamae
Parameters
~rate (float, default: 10)- duration between sending ping, 10.0 means 0.1 [hz]
