low="0.1" high="8.0" default="1.0"/>
<select id="ping">
+ <option id="sn" _label="Ping local subnet"/>
+<!--
<option id="24" _label="Ping subnet/24 (254 hosts)" arg-set="-ping subnet/24"/>
<option id="25" _label="Ping subnet/25 (126 hosts)" arg-set="-ping subnet/25"/>
<option id="26" _label="Ping subnet/26 (62 hosts)" arg-set="-ping subnet/26"/>
<option id="28" _label="Ping subnet/28 (14 hosts)"/>
<option id="29" _label="Ping subnet/29 (6 hosts)" arg-set="-ping subnet/29"/>
<option id="30" _label="Ping subnet/30 (2 hosts)" arg-set="-ping subnet/30"/>
+-->
+
<option id="ssh" _label="Ping known SSH hosts" arg-set="-ping /etc/hosts,$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts,$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts2"/>
- <option id="ssh" _label="Simulation (don't ping)" arg-set="-ping simulation"/>
+
+ <option id="popular" _label="Ping Google, Facebook, etc." arg-set="-ping google.com,facebook.com,twitter.com,yahoo.com,flickr.com,www.apple.com,wikipedia.org,linux.org,youtube.com,disqus.com,blogger.com,wordpress.com,tumblr.com,whitehouse.gov"/>
+
+ <option id="sim" _label="Simulation (don't ping)" arg-set="-ping simulation"/>
</select>
</vgroup>
Alternately, it can run a simulation that doesn't involve hosts.
-(If pinging doesn't work, you may need to make the executable be setuid.)
+(If pinging doesn't work on Linux, you may need to make the executable
+be setuid.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping#History