Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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, or as a latency test. It works by sending ICMP "echo request" packets to the target host and listening ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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, or as a latency test. It works by sending ICMP "echo request" packets to the target host and listening for ICMP "echo response" replies. The "echo response" is sometimes called a pong. Ping measures the round-trip time and records any packet loss, and prints when finished a statistical summary of the echo response packets received, the minimum, mean, max and in some versions the standard deviation of the round trip time.