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NAME="PING-COMMAND">ping</H1
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>Name</H2
>ping -- Verify network connectivity</DIV
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><B
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>ping</B
> [-v ] [-i <TT
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><I
> local_IP_address</I
></TT
>] [-l <TT
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><I
> length</I
></TT
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>-v</TD
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>Boolean</TD
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>Be verbose, displaying information about each packet sent.</TD
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>-n <TT
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>local_IP_address</I
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>10</TD
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>local_IP_address</I
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>Numeric IP or DNS name</TD
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>server_IP_address</I
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>length</I
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>length</I
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>length</I
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>The <B
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>ping</B
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special (ICMP) packets to a specific host. These packets should be automatically
returned by that host. The command will indicate how many of these round-trips
were successfully completed.
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>Test connectivity to host 192.168.1.101.
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Network PING - from 192.168.1.31 to 192.168.1.101
PING - received 10 of 10 expected</PRE
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>Test connectivity to host 192.168.1.101, with verbose reporting.
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Network PING - from 192.168.1.31 to 192.168.1.101
seq: 1, time: 1 (ticks)
seq: 2, time: 1 (ticks)
seq: 3, time: 1 (ticks)
seq: 4, time: 1 (ticks)
PING - received 10 of 10 expected</PRE
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PING: Cannot reach server '192.168.1.109' (192.168.1.109)</PRE
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