Top "Ping" questions

Ping is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network and to measure the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer.

What does "2>&1" in a Windows Command Do?

Doing some maintenance on a script, I found this line: ping -n 40 127.0.0.1 > NUL 2>&1 I know from this …

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IPv6 link-local address format

I am working on a project related to networking/compression. One of the machines is Windows Vista, which already has …

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How to send a message with ping?

The Ping command uses an ICMP request as far as I know So is it possible to send a short …

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How to determine latency of a remote server through the browser

I run a couple of game tunnelling servers and would like to have a page where the client can run …

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How can I make many pings asynchronously at the same time?

I just can't seem to understand how to structure an asynchronous call to SendPingAsync. I want to loop through a …

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What data is included in ICMP (ping) request?

I know the ICMP request contains the IP address. Is the client MAC address included in an ICMP request? What …

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Waiting for network link to be up before continuing in bash

Is there a way to check for successful network interface link for multiple interfaces in a bash script before continuing? …

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Delphi Indy Ping Error 10040

I have a small piece of code that checks if a computer is alive by pinging it. We use to …

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Default ping timeout

What is the default time of ping? I use the code below to send ping to tcp devices. When does …

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Communication between VPC subnet instances

I'm trying to set up a very simple VPC environment, but I'm having troubles making the instances in the subnet …

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