Ping

This is a simple module to allow 'pinging' from WiFi enabled devices. While not true pinging, it opens a socket connection to the specified port and returns the time it takes to establish the connection.

This Module allows both URLs and IP Addresses.

Functions

ping(options, callback)

options is an object, which may contain several properties:

• address (address to ping; defaults to localhost)
• port (defaults to 80)
• timeout (in ms; defaults to 5s)
• attempts (how many times to measure latency; defaults to 5)

callback should be a function with arguments in node convention - function(err, data).

Returned data is an object which looks like this:

{
  "address": "google.com",
  "port": 80, "attempts": 5, "avg": 36.86366081237, "max": 54.41212654113, "min": 29.13498878479,
  "raw": [ 29.13498878479, 54.41212654113, 34.74617004394, 32.61685371398, 33.40816497802 ]
 }

Usage

var p = require("Ping");

p.ping({ address: 'google.com' }, function(err, data) {
  console.log(data);
});

Reference

exports.ping = function (options, callback) { ... }

Using

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