Ping is a network utility program to test if a particular host is reachable. It uses the internet connection to send out packets of data to a host and are sent back the packets to the source computer. So we can know if any packets were lost. We can see the amount of time it takes to communicate with the host. Command: ping target [-t] [-n count] [-w timeout] [-l size] target - Destination host to ping [-t] - Ping until you force to stop [-n count] - Send number of requests (default 4 requests) [-w timeout] - Set timeout in milliseconds (default 1,000) [-l size] - Set size of packet (default size 32 bytes) There are more options available. Only some of them are mentioned here. Example: Reading the ping test results: There are no loss in packets (0% loss). Source machine has received all the sent packets. Minimum time to communicate with the destination (both way) is 4ms and maximum is 6ms. Although, there is...
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