Using ping for network troubleshooting
Saturday, September 12th, 2009Ping which stands for Packet INetrnet Gropper, is a great utility when it comes to troubleshooting network issues. It is part of iputils package. It sends ICMP “echo request” packets to the target system and listen for “echo response” replies. Ping records the round-trip time and records any packet loss. It prints a summary at [...]