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by danielr 1 view

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When I go into the windows dos promt i can go to c:\ directory and type ping. With this I get a list of options with a brief description of each one. The description it provides I do not understand so well. What exactly does each option do and how do I use it. Any help would be greatly apreciated. Thanks.

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by danielr

I already know what PING is which the site you provided(jhatcher) is used for people that do not know what PING is. I have already tried to type in each command to see what it does but I am very vague on what is happening with each command. I stillneed to know exactly what each command does.

by danielr

I do not need to know what PING is as I already do, but instead the exact operation of each ping command.

by nishadagashe

I know a few options.. here are they.

ping 1.1.1.1 --> normal ping (4 times)
ping -t 1.1.1.1 --> continuous ping

ping -a 1.1.1.1 --> shows hostname
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 10 --> pings 10 times
ping 1.1.1.1 -l 20 -->pings with 20 bytes of data each time

That's all I know..

Nishad

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