May 4, 2011 · How does the ping command really work? Specifically where does the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) come into picture? I was asked this question in an interview and I was not able to come up wi...

Oct 11, 2011 · The timeout switch with Windows ping command simply tells the command window how long to wait before RECEIVING the reply, not how long to wait before sending the NEXT reply.

Jan 1, 2017 · For anyone else who runs into this issue, there's another option than changing permissions on ping. Simply change the host check command to use check_host rather than check_ping. While there are certainly some differences …

Jul 9, 2018 · I have some visual basic code (see below) that tests an IP connection in column B (of an excel spreadsheet) and puts whether or not it is connected or un-reachable in column c, I was just wondering...

Sep 17, 2020 · By default the time delay between two pings is equal to 1 second. My need is to reduce the delay between two pings to 500 ms (0.5 seconds). Is there any way to do this?

Feb 5, 2011 · The usual command line ping tool uses ICMP Echo, but it's true that other protocols can also be used, and they're useful in debugging different kinds of network problems. I can remember at least arping (for testing ARP requests) and tcping (which tries to establish a TCP connection and immediately closes it, it can be used to check if traffic reaches a certain port …

Oct 24, 2009 · The maximum size of an IPv4 packet is 65535 bytes of which some is protocol overhead so that data must be a couple bytes less than 65535 and a ping can't be more than one IP packet, so the answer is no. Why would you want to send a larger ping?

Oct 1, 2016 · The if command checks the exit code of the following command (the ping). If the exit code is zero (which means that the command exited successfully) the then block will be executed.

Mar 2, 2017 · I am using this part of code to ping an ip address in java but only pinging localhost is successful and for the other hosts the program says the host is unreachable. I disabled my firewall but still

Is there a way to test a connection to a SQL Server through the command line or without any extra software? I've tried the ping and telnet methods shown in this article, but they both fail to find my SQL Server.