PING - Network Tool Tutorial - 3

Before reading this tutorial please go through Part - 1 & Part - 2 In previous tutorial we seen ping gives us three major information -Host Reachability -Network Congestion -Time To Live in that we discussed about what is "Host Reachability", Now we will be seeing Network Congestion Network Congestion: Another very precious information provided by the Ping command is the time taken for a packet to reach the destination...

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PING - Network Tool Tutorial - 2

OUTPUT ANALYSIS: In previous tutorial PING - Network Tool Tutorial - 1 we seen how PING Command works if you want to clearly understand about PING command go through Tutorial - 1. we catched echo_request and echo_response by using wireshark(A Popular Network Sniffing Tool) ping gives us three major information -Host Reachability -Network Congestion -Time To Live Host Reachability The Ping results in the previous tutorial show that four ICMP...

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PING - Network Tool Tutorial - 1

Ping is a well known tool that is used to check the network connectivity between two systems. ping tool is by default available in both windows,MAC and linux/unix systems. The ping was created in 1983 by Mike Muuss who wrote an article "The Story of Ping Program" before dying in 2000 in a car accident The ping uses an ICMP(Internet control message protocol) protocol which has been created to check IP connectivity and get information about other...

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