Questions tagged [ping]

A utility available on all operating systems that helps test network connectivity.

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Server dropping every other ping packet

I'm seeing a very strange behavior one one of my machines, where it looks like every other ping packet is being dropped. Sometimes the evens and sometimes the odds, but very consistently every other ...
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VirtualBox host-only network, cannot ping host from guest

I have the following setup: Host machine Windows: IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.103 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192....
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How is ARP reply generated from Windows 10? Sending ARP req from embedded device through ethernet port to windows10 on laptop

I want to send an ARP request using my embedded device through the ethernet cable to my laptop that has windows 10 on it. I want to receive an ARP reply from windows back to my embedded device through ...
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LAN computer error when i try to ping: timeout

Hello everyone. I am trying to ping a local connected computer (PC 2). Both PCs are WIN 10 and are connected to the router; PC 1 is connected via Wireless and PC 2 is connected via Ethernet. When I ...
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CVE-2023-23415 doesn't work on my Windows 10

The problem is that I am trying to find answers to the CVE-2023-23415 because it's not working. So, I did everything correctly, I crafted an ICMP echo packet on Scapy, configured it to buffer overflow ...
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Why do i need a default gateway in both ends?

I'm trying to ping from Pc0 to Pc1 , i've specified a default gateway in Pc0 but i didn't in Pc1 . my question is why Pc1 is dropping the ICMP packet ? i know it's because i didn't give it a default ...
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VMWare ESXi VM's pinging

I have 2 VM's in the VLAN18 in my VMWare ESXi 8.0 I wanted to ping the other one but it doens't find it. Now I turned off the firewall and it worked if they are in the same VLAN, now I want my 1 VM to ...
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Windows - get a sound alert when site is back up

A particular https endpoint I'm interested in is down. I want a way to monitor when it comes back up, and get an audible alert when that happens. How do I do that in Windows?
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Internet slows down to unusable speed after opening any game

Update: 28/09/2023 - I did full scan of laptop with Microsoft defender and it found few viruses in some of the software i had downloaded ages ago. I removed them and then tried OSU, and Hitman 3 ...
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Lag on internet connection in terminal programs

I have been suffering a 5-10 second lag from EVERY connection in a new browser tab, or a curl request. I have found out on the Internet that I should disable IPv6. But when I disabled IPv6 the Chrome ...
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Direct ping is not working

ping -I eth1 10.5.48.2 is working but ping 10.5.48.2 is not working this is my route Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default Docsis-Gateway. 0.0.0....
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Ping ip address and save result to txt file.

I am trying to open a list of ip address and ping them and then save the responce to a TXT file. The ping loops through and runs with out a problem and reports correctly but i can get it to save the ...
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What is a safe ping frequency without it being considered a DDoS attack?

I am trying to chart the uptime of a server by regularly pinging it and Google and then comparing the ping times. I want to keep doing this over a period of—let’s say—a week. I am sending a set of 5 ...
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Mystery Network Issue - 2 Computers on same switch - 1 pings entire network, 1 can only ping half

I have been chasing demons for a week now. I have on e I can not understand for the life of me. I have 2 computers in my office. Originally I had them running off of a switch that was connected to the ...
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TTL getting changed while pinging local network printer

When i'm pining a local device (NW printer) from win-10 PC using cmd, the TTL changing from 64 to 255 and again back to 64 continuously. Kindly share the probable cause for this. see below.. Reply ...
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Can't ping Windows 10 PC

While trying to solve a more complicated networking problem, I noticed that for some reason I was getting no response to a ping from my Windows 10 computer. I read that it might be a problem with the ...
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Identify latency problems to gaming server

I am playing an online game where the server is physically located in the same city (~10km=6miles). I have cabled internet with WiFi and have a ping around 170-200ms with severe spikes. From my phone ...
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Can iperf3 but cannot ping

One access point connected to a pc and one receiver connected to another pc. The access point and receiver are also connected to each other. Both PC have no firewall, security and antivirus. Both pc ...
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ping wsl2 ubuntu from windows host

I have a Ubuntu instance running through WSL2. I want to ping this instance from the host machine and unfortunately, it fails. However, I can ping from ubuntu to windows. win: ipconfig returns 192....
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TP-Link TL-ER6120 Load Balancer: Intermittent Ping Timeout Issue

I am encountering a perplexing issue with my TP-Link TL-ER6120 load balancer, and I'm hoping someone here might be able to provide some insights or solutions. After approximately 15 to 20 minutes of ...
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Unreasonably high ping on Macbook Pro

I have issues which I am experiencing for more than a year now. Sometimes I can see that connection is just too slow. When I open bash and ping a random website in the country, I can see that ping is ...
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4g vs 5g ping in india

I am playing an online game and get ping as follows - With 4g - 150ms With 5g - almost 145ms These are my two questions I didn't found on Google or chatgpt. Why does it has almost the same ping ...
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How do I detect a continuous ping connection in Windows 10 using native or Windows-maintained tools?

I have an IP provided by dedicated hardware connected via ethernet to a Windows computer. The ethernet connection has its own IP address. However, a manufacturer provided IP address is what I use to ...
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Ping strange behavior

i have a strange behavior when I ping, the response alternates between IP and dns record why this difference? (I've anonymized the IP and my target DNS record) ping google.com PING google.com (10.10....
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Unable to traceroute but able to ping

I need to connect to my own server that runs Linux Mint. After installing Tailscale on both PCs (client and server) I can successfully ping the server from client, but I'm unable to traceroute it. ...
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How to communicate with VirtualBox NAT network from another device

Network scenario Hi, I recently built an AD lab environment called GOAD on GitHub on my secondary PC (PL4YGR0UND) running Ubuntu 22.04 and I don't know how to communicate with VM's inside Virtualbox ...
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Health check proxied DNS

I am attempting to send a ping health check to a proxied Cloudflare DNS record, as expected my ping is just resolving to Cloudflare DNS. This gives me inaccuracies since the server behind the ...
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How to use "nmap" to get those IP addresses that respond to a ping?

On a Ubuntu VM (running on windows) I want to use nmap to list all IP's that respond to a ping. I tried sudo nmap -sP 192.168.200.0/24 sudo nmap -sn 192.168.200.* which incorrectly state for every IP ...
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ping is working but hping (icmp host unreachable) and nmap (host is down) are not working for all websites

I installed hping and nmap tools for the first time. Both tools can't connect to any website including google.com, but ping command works Ping [heman@Main ~]$ ping google.com PING google.com(bom12s01-...
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Why does a running ping process keep working during an internet outage, but restarting ping doesn't?

For the last few months, I'm struggling with regular internet outages, affecting all devices on my local network, forcing me to power cycling my cable modem. Today I noticed that I can reproduce this ...
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ping flood weird behavior? After a bunch of timeouts, the rate increases 30x

I have a weird behaviour that I don't really understand why it is happening. While troubleshooting why I had periodic packet loss over wifi on my macbook, I noticed a different, strange behaviour. ...
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How can I ping a host that is not a Lan-Segment but is on the same internal network?

I have a problem where I have two computers, win and ubuntu, on the same internal network, and win can ping ubuntu but not the other way around (timeout)? (Lan Segment is a physical portion of a local ...
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it seems `ping` utility displays wrong information

who knows what happened with ping utility? ping eugen.tools.rf.net PING eugen.tools.rf.net (208.91.197.27) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 208.91.197.27: icmp_seq=1 ttl=235 time=45.6 ms 64 bytes ...
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High, variable ping times to machine on local network

I have two machines on my local network, both connected to a wireless router. From machine A, if I ping my router, I get this: 10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9038ms rtt min/...
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ping to 8.8.8.8 took long time or even want to show result

Im using ip tables to simulate between host and and client. I can ping between host and client or client between client but the client cannot ping to the 8.8.8.8 or even using internet, but the host ...
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Centos 7 - ping (connect: Network is unreachable)

I set up a CentOS virtual machine, it is connected to my network, and I tried to ping other machines but nothing worked. Tried to check other machines, they among themselves without problems respond. ...
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Ping to Windows 10 not working if "file and printer sharing" is turned off?

I have one Windows 10 computer on a local network. When I try to ping the Windows 10 machine from some other computer, it fails (Request timed out). From the Windows 10 machine, I can ping other ...
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Is there a utility to ping a server using aliases in ssh config (instead of /etc/hosts)?

I'm trying to standardize my server aliases across projects by linking together ssh config files that I can keep under version control. I'd like to be able to just define machine aliases along with IP ...
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What's the normal latency for a Wi-Fi connection?

Playing an online game connected to a server with 64 players and an avg. ping of 50 I get quite a bit of lag. So while being connected to the server, I ran a "cmd.exe && /c ping 192.168.0.1 -l ...
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If I ping whateversite.com, what host am I pinging?

I have this lingering doubt regarding DNS, please excuse the basicness of the question. If I ping www.whateversite.com, I'm pinging the www host in the whateversite.com domain, right? If I ping ...
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Unable to ping or use VPN when connected to a 5G router

I am using a Zyxel FWA510 router. It's a 5G router and I use my Telekom 5G sim with it. After I start up the router and connect my Laptop (Macbook Pro 2021) through wifi with it. I cannot do the ...
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Why am I unable to ping another computer in the same local network?

Everything was Ok until We have changed our modem (the same type as last one huawei HG532e). I have a valid IP configuration on my laptop but I cant ping anything on my local network or anything on ...
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Virtualbox Cant ping VMs in same LAN

I have two hosts, with each of them running a single VM in VirtualBox, located in the same home LAN. I have set bridged adapters for both VMs and the source IP address has the same subnet assigned as ...
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Can no longer ping router, 8.8.8.8 or gain internet access after removing Norton

I'm at a total loss. removed Norton with their removal tool. lost all internet access did a netsh int ip reset still no internet and I cannot even ping my router or 8.8.8.8 - error message is General ...
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How does 0.0.0.0 binding happen in Linux?

A ping to 0.0.0.0 responds from 127.0.0.1. However, if I shutdown the localhost loopback and keep another interface up with another ip, then ping 0.0.0.0 gives an error $ping 0.0.0.0 connect: Invalid ...
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powershell check VPN connection

I am working on a script to suggest the best vpn server for the client I want to know if the vpn server is now Available through powershell Example: ping my.vpnserver.com if errorlevel 1 echo The VPN ...
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Kali VM not pinging Windows 7 VM but vice versa is possible

I have installed Kali and Windows 7 VM on Virtual Oracle Box. Its pinging fine from Windows to kali but its not pinging from kali to Windows VM. Both network are on Bridged Connection. Kali IP ...
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computer can ping to router lan ip from outside

I have a problem that I'm trying to solve I have a computer with this IP address 10.0.0.1 / 255.255.255.0 and a router in the same network the wan IP is: 10.0.0.5 / 255.255.255.0 and the LAN IP is: ...
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VirtualBox Guest VM (win7) cant ping Host PC (win10) - Bridged connection

My virtualbox Win7 VM can ping the rest of the devices on my home network however the only machine it cannot is the HOST pc. I have tried to ping the VM from various other machines and all of them ...
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How can I do a ping every 500 ms?

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?

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