Destination host unreachable, but the errorlevel is 0 (from a win7)

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From a windows 7 machine, I ping a non existing ip address.

C:>ping 192.168.1.222

Pinging 192.168.1.222 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.1.222: Destination host unreachable.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.222: Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss)

Even though there is no reply, the errorlevel is set to 0.

**what I am trying to do, is figure out if a remote machine is replying to ping. One of my test is to turn off the machine and ping it. For some reason, ping sets errorlevel to 0 **

Ping completed successfully. You asked it to ping an IP address, and it did it. The fact that no replies were received does not mean that the ping didn't work. — Adam Thompson, Mar 23 '12 at 11:27
See http://superuser.com/questions/403905/ping-from-windows-7-get-no-reply-but-sets-errorlevel-to-0 — user9517, Mar 29 '12 at 07:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '12 at 10:30

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You can pipe the output of the ping command through find to see if the ping had a reply: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=304609

answered Mar 23 '12 at 10:30

Andrew Morton

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Destination host unreachable, but the errorlevel is 0 (from a win7)

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