How to send a message with ping?

ping icmp
derich picture derich · Aug 6, 2015 · Viewed 15.3k times · Source

The Ping command uses an ICMP request as far as I know

So is it possible to send a short text with the ping command right from commandline?

Answer

kav picture kav · Aug 6, 2015

What about ping -p pattern? Keep in mind that not all of versions of ping support -p option.

You may specify up to 16 ''pad'' bytes to fill out the packet you send. This is useful for diagnosing data-dependent problems in a network. For example, -p ff will cause the sent packet to be filled with all ones.

E.g. ping -p 486920686572652e www.example.com, where 486920686572652e = Hi here.

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