Ping Commands

 Ping and Switches to Know

Ping is used to see if a system is up and responding. In a Windows environment make sure that network discovery is turned on or you will not receive a response.

To enable network discovery:

Click the start button in Windows

Select on the left side the Setting icon

Select Network & Internet

Select Ethernet

On the right-hand side select Network and Sharing Center

Then select Private and enable Network Discovery

Switches commonly used with ping:

• -t unlimited pings until stopped
• -a to resolve a hostname to an IP address
• -n for the number of echo requests to send
• -4 force using IPv4
• -6 force using IPv6