Ping a website or another online server to test your computer's connection to that computer and measure the time it takes for data packets to travel there and back. By default, the ping command sends ...

Most businesses connect together multiple workstations to a single network using a switch or a router with an integrated switch; the router then assigns an IP address to each connected device. The IP ...

Are you trying to ping at the IP level, or the Ethernet level? Some devices (for various reasons) aren't going to respond to a ICMP ping.

In previous articles we’ve built some useful servers. But this time let’s take a look at one of the most powerful network troubleshooting tools ever written: the mighty “ping” command. You may have ...