what is ping?
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Answer / madhusoodhanan
A utility to determine whether a specific IP address is
accessible. It works by sending a packet to the specified
address and waiting for a reply. PING is used primarily to
troubleshoot Internet connections. There are many freeware
and shareware Ping utilities available for personal
computers.
It is often believed that "Ping" is an abbreviation for
Packet Internet Groper, but Ping's author has stated that
the names comes from the sound that a sonar makes.
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Ping is a program that sends a series of packets over a
network or the Internet to a specific computer in order to
generate a response from that computer.
ex:windows key+r
type: cmd
ping 192.168.0.1
Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
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A utility to determine whether a specific IP address is
accessible. It works by sending a packet to the specified
address and waiting for a reply. PING is used primarily to
troubleshoot Internet connections. There are many freeware
and shareware Ping utilities available for personal
computers.
It is often believed that "Ping" is an abbreviation for
Packet Internet Groper, but Ping's author has stated that
the names comes from the sound that a sonar makes.
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Answer / sandeep kumar sharma
PING-that is packet internet gropher it is a command which
is used to know physical connectivity between two computers
or two routers or two network what ever u want to check ..
it is just like tracert command ...ok !
u may check the physical connection with the help of PING
or TRACERT both are used to trobleshot the network prob.
Sandeep kumar sharma (TSS)
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Answer / amit
ping is a command to test that the ip or any host is
reachable or not it use icmp protocol to determine the host
according to books it is abbriviated form of packet
internet groper.
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Ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a
particular host is reachable across an IP network; it is
also used to self test the network interface card of the
computer. It works by sending ICMP “echo request” packets
to the target host and listening for ICMP “echo response”
replies. Ping estimates the round-trip time, generally in
milliseconds, and records any packet loss, and prints a
statistical summary when finished.
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Answer / manoj kumar
ping is a packet internet gropher.it is utility which used
to checked the connectivity to other network intterface.it
is used icmp protocol.
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Answer / sravanthi
packet internet gropher a command which is used to know
whether a particular IP address is conneted to internet or
not.
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Answer / ravi
Ping is a program that sends a series of packets over a
network or the Internet to a specific computer in order to
generate a response from that computer. The other computer
responds with an acknowledgment that it received the
packets. Ping was created to verify whether a specific
computer on a network or the Internet exists, and is connected.
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