Pinging

Pinging is a technique used to find out whether a particular IP address is reachable or not.
  • Open Run and type cmd there to open msdos
  • In the dos window type ping IPADDRESS and press enter eg. ping 72.14.223.191
  • All websites can usually be pinged but if you want to ping your friend's computer, it's firewall MUST be off.
  • For Advanced pinging options type ping -?

Suppose you want to run a program that pings a certain address then records the results?

  • In notepad type ping -n 20 IPADDRESS >> network.txt
  • A new file called network .txt will be created and the results will be recorded in it. To overwrite previous results each time replace ">>" with ">".
  • Here also you can use additional commands seen by typing ping -? in cmd window.

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping

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