Ping sends echo request packets to the specified IP address and waits for a response. If there's no response then the address is deemed unreachable at that time. A trace route utility - "tracert" on Windows for example - can be used to help find out where the break in connection is. As stated on ...
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pinging wireless clients is gambling
For browsing the internet on all computers in my house, I've setted up a small home network some months ago.
Internet works perfectly everywhere, but I have some odd problems with communication ...
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Networking - i want to prioritise traffic on a sky router without QoS
I have the timeless issue of being the 'gamer' in a shared house on a highly contentious Sky internet connection and i want to do something about it!
(can't come home from a hard day at work and ...
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Mac OS X 10.7 can't ping/telnet localhost
I'm developing using django/postgresql on Mac OS X 10.7 and suddenly I am unable to access the test server through http://localhost:8000/. I can make it listen on 0.0.0.0:8000 and then it works...
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iPhone can't connect to internet on other subnet, but other computers can
Here's my setup; I'm a router newb so I don't completely understand the intricacies of my configuration - but suffice it to say, I've set it up this way so that anyone who's connected to Router A ...
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Can't ping Linux IPv6 address from Windows XP
I gave an IPv6 address to my SUSE Linux machine on a VirtualBox VM with ifconfig eth0 inet6 add ...
I can't ping that address from Windows XP (vice versa) The address of the Linux machine is efbb::26 ...
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Why are computers not seeing each other over Wifi?
There is 2 computers here, 1 is running Debian 6 and one - Windows XP. They are both connected via Wifi but cannot ping each other.
But, when one is connected via a wired connection, I can ping the ...
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target IP address is same as source IP address in ping ARP request
I am working on wireless driver. But I feel this question is just a general network question. I saw strange content of the first ping packt, which is an arp request, where the target IP address is ...
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Cannot ping a device with an IP
I have a device (an handheld gauge with display) that has a ethernet cable allow transfer of data to the computer. I wired the ethernet cable to the computer. The device can ping itself to be ...
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Is it possible to get communication work both ways in Virtual Box with NAT (not bridged) on Windows 7 host?
I have set up a virtual machine with Virtual Box. But I cant ping the virtual machine from the host Windows 7 if I have NAT on the virtual machine.
I know it works with bridged but I would like it to ...
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Second ping within 30 seconds of the first always fails
I ping a host:
$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=47 time=53.8 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=2 ttl=47 time=54.2 ms
64 bytes from ...
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Can't ping parallels win xp vm from osx
I'm not sure why, b/c I thought this was working b4, but when I have my Parallels Windows XP vm on bridged network I still can't ping the machine.. The Default Gateway is the same, and the osx and ...
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Able to ping localhost, but cannot connect via my browser
I've seen similar questions, but couldn't find any answers for my problem.
I'm using Windows 7 and Wamp for website development, and it was working fine until a couple of days ago. Now it won't let ...
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Packet sizes for ping and traceroute
Why is a ping packet's data length 32 while a traceroute packet's data length is 64 bytes? Is there any reason for that? Or are there any advantages for this difference?
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Wireless randomly cuts out for a few seconds
I have two laptops in front of me, running continuous pings to my gateway (router) and to google. One computer pings both targets fine and doesn't time out. The other computer, an Asus G73JW laptop, ...
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VPN for specific UDP ports?
My ping to DotA 2 servers (online video game) is very poor in afternoon hours. My ping usually go as high as 300ms or even more.
I tried to use OpenVPN with my dedicated server my ping decreased to ...
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Is there any way to monitor the health of my Internet connection?
Is there a way I can log the health of my Internet connection like pinging a server then making a log/graph where I can see when my Internet connection were down??
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Can't access network shares from a specific computer on my home network
I'm trying to connect to the Windows share on my laptop from my main PC, but the laptop doesn't respond to ping (I ping by IP, get timed out).
I can, however, ping the main PC from the laptop, and ...
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Determining cause of TCP/IP connect issue
I need HTTPS access to the host ws.betaqxl.com, but connect fails:
:: curl -k -v https://ws.betaqxl.com
* About to connect() to ws.betaqxl.com port 443 (#0)
* Trying 91.204.81.183... Timed out
* ...
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What could cause my LAN Pings be greater than 100ms?
I have 2 servers (Both: Windows Server 2008, Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz, 32GB RAM, 8 x 15k SAS Drives).
One of them is a DC / Web server / Exchange Server, the other is a SQL Server (2008).
I have a 48 port ...
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Windows 7 Host does not answer to ping
Today I tried printing on a shared printer on one of our homegroup members. Sadly it did not work (printer marked as offline). Shortly after, I noticed I can't even ping the machine that owns the ...
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Does it matter if a RF television cable runs in the same duct as my internet Cat5e UTP cable?
At my home I have a UTP cat5e cable with at least 50 meters that comes from the switch on my dad's office that occupies the same duct as the coaxial RF cable to my television when both arrives at my ...
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Why is ping.exe is using all my CPU?
I use Windows XP Professional, with Norton anti-virus.
A few days ago I spent some time reviewing the services running under svchost as this was hogging the CPU, using Process Explorer. Seemed to ...
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Ping works while telnet fails
I have a Windows 2008R2 Server named SERV1 connected to a Unix machine UNI1.
I can ping but I can't telnet.
I have installed the telnet client on server R2. I disabled the Windows Firewall on R2. ...
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Windows 7 can't ping an IP
I am unable to ping an IP address on a Amazon EC2 instance. When I do it from a Mac or Linux machine, it works just fine. But, on Windows 7 it doesn't work.
I've tried turning off the firewall, but ...
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Linux: How to monitor incoming pings
Can I somehow monitor incoming pings on a Linux machine? netcat doesn't seem to support that.
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Modify output of ping to text file into a single line
I am using a loop and this command to display my ping result in a text file:
ping.exe -n 1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>> trace.txt
The result is 8 lines of code!
Pinging xxxxx [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] with ...
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DOS Command: How can I perform a ping every X minuts and check the response time?
I am currently working in a big company and we have serious latency issues.
This is happening in a process control system, and is unacceptable (Open a valve sometimes take 2 minuts before command ...
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How do I get computers to respond to ping in Linux?
I'm a newbie and I'd like to know about the Ping command on Linux (I'm using Ubuntu 11.04).
After pinging a PC on my network, how can I make the target PC respond to my ping calls? I can see that the ...
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ping request timed out one way
I have two systems in my office LAN. One is running Fedora and the other windows 7.
I can ping the windows machine from the Fedora machine but I am unable to ping the Fedora machine from windows ...
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How to test the connection speed of a list of hosts?
The background is that I want to find the fastest mirror for CTAN. And I don't want to ping their addresses one by one.
I searched this on google and found netselect.
However, this seems not work on ...
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Enable Ping in Windows 7 Firewall?
Serverfault tells that the new syntax to enable ping on Windows Server 2008 is
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request"
protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in ...
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connect domain-joined Windows 7 laptop to another non-domain Windows 7 laptop
I've the following issue -
Computer A: Windows 7 Enterprise OS and part of a domain
Computer B: Windows 7 Home Premium and not part of any domain (in the default "WORKGROUP" workgroup)
I'm able to ...
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Can't ping but can access internet just fine?
I'm wondering if anyone has ideas on this one, since it's a first for me. I can access the internet just fine with a browser, but using PING or TRACERT from a command prompt just shows requests ...
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How to solve request timed out? And why am I getting this error?
I am having issue with my net connection. My net connection gets disconnected at times. Online gaming faces lagging issue.
It was 1st noted after modem firmware was updated by the ISP ...
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How can I determine if a certain machine exists on the network?
How can I determine if a certain machine exists on the network?
If I ping the IP address, would that be sufficient?
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ping not working between hosts in same network
I connected my laptop to my modem through WLAN and connected my PC to the modem by LAN. The IP address of my laptop is 192.168.1.3 and the IP address of my PC is 192.168.1.4. I am able to ping my ...
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New router - lag spikes
I've recently bought a new router (actually not me but my family, and I consider their choice as bad).
Now I have some lag spikes all the time when I use internet. It's mostly seen in games but also ...
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ping and DUP! packets, but network seems to work fine
We have recently set up a small cluster of GPU workstations and have recently got them networked together. Although connectivity looks fine for e.g. web browsers and SSH, pinging other addresses ...
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conectivity problem
I have 2 PCs (anuin and hed), both running Linux that are connected via ethernet (192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.3).
Both PCs can ping each other.
anuin is connected to the internet via an USB-stick ...
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Why won't pinging from other locations than home give any replies?
I am pinging myself and I get replies as normal.
But when I ask my friend from another house to ping my IP, he doesn't get replies.
How is this possible? The modem is on and the IP has not changed. ...
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Configure IP v6 on Linux machine
I use this command to assign a site-scope IP address:
$ sudo ifconfig eth0 inet6 add fee3::216:cbff:fe94:1a86/64
$
Check it with ifconfig:
$ ifconfig
...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ...
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Can you get a reply from a HTTPS site using the Ping command?
I tried using the ping command on a https page, but the message says that ping could not find the host. Is there some issue regarding ping and https?
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Stubborn APIPA Issue (possible IPv4 problem, IPv6 = okay?)
I have one Windows 7 desktop that seems to be stuck on an APIPA address. It can see the other computers in the workgroup, but seemingly only communicate via IPv6 (see below), and can't access outside ...
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Why does ping to the same interface fail when loop-back is down?
When I down the loopback interface and try to ping my own IP, it's showing 100% packet loss, even when my eth0 is up. Why is this?
Here's what I did:
root@faisal-desktop# ifconfig lo down
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Why do companies block 'ping'?
I can browse all the websites in my company work station, but not open the command prompt and ping any website. This has happened in 2 of my previous companies too. Do companies block ping?Why do ...
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Is there a way to restrain openNMS from flooding interfaces with requests?
I've been using openNMS for a few weeks now and for the most part its been working out quite nicely. The only problems I'm running into at the moment is that a) openNMS sometimes floods the interfaces ...
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“Network Scan” gives “DHCPServer FAILED”, but it's checking the wrong address
When I do a "Windows Help and Support Center" "Network Scan" on my XP SP3 machine, it tests a very long list of various things. All are marked "OK" except:
> DHCPServer 192.168.0.1 (FAILED)
> ...
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Can ping device from one computer and not the other
I've recently been assigned to work on a diagnostic program done in C++ which communicates with a piece of electronic equipment. Our normal scenario involves communicating via an RS232 interface, but ...
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Using HSDPA broadband modem USB stick via 3G router
I have a Huawei E1752 HSDPA broadband modem USB stick that works great if plugged into my laptop and connected via the ISP vendor's proprietry software. If I plug the stick into my 3G Router (TP-Link ...
