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Ping is a mechanism to see if a remote host is reachable via an IP network

Ping is used to send an ICMP packet to a remote host. The ICMP type sent is an echo request, and the type the remote host will send back is an echo reply. Some firewalls or hosts may block ICMP, so ping should not be the only tool used for troubleshooting.

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Pinging a host from a router through the selected interface

In a typical Cisco router it's possible to ping a host from the router's OS. When the ping packet leaves router (call it R1) through the fa0/0 interface, the source IP of that packet it set to the IP of fa0/0, right? Is it possible to specify the…
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802.1q VLAN echo replies do not include VLAN ID

I am running a SLES11, SP4 kernel on 2 systems. I have 2 NICs connected through a Netgear GS724T switch. I have configured VLAN 400 on the switch. On system 1, I create a VLAN 400 on eth0 called eth0.400. I assign it address 13.0.0.1/8. I do not…
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allowing ping packets from specific ip in windows firewall

How do i allow ping packets from a specific ip from my internal network in windows firewall. Whenever, i tried to set custom inbound rules in windows. There does not seem to have a way to achieve this. Allow access from 192.168.x.x Block all…
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Interpreting PING Results

I am on Windows and LAN using the command line PING in this format: ping -a -n 5 -S For the most part, it does what it is supposed to do but I have noticed 3 issues that I am curious to better understand. Two machines,…
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Accessing a server with wrong IP out of segment range

I have run into a similar problem as in this question about a wrong IP in LAN. However, the standard addr alias trick on the NIC did not help. I have no direct access to the server console, I might get physical access in a week or more if I'm lucky,…
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Arp request for a non-existing host in a local network

I'm wondering why I get the following result : if I try to access a non-existing host on my local network, for instance using the command ping, I see with the tcpdump arp command that there is every second a who-has request sent by my computer but…
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Why woud ping fail but not traceroute

For a few days now I started making the interesting observation of a machine intermittently not responding to an ICMP ping, while it still responds to an ICMP based traceroute (specifically set via the -I parameter). As far as I know both would use…
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Difference between ping time and time for first ACK answer

While creating a packet performance monitor I come across the follow problem: if I ping a server, I get about 4ms. If I calculate the time between a POST and its first ACK, I get about 25us (microseconds). Here is Wireshark data for both…
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Why Ping starts showing results only after a minute

I am running a Solaris 11 system over a local private network 192.168.100.0/24 and I run ping -s to get continuous ping. From the Gateway to my server I get root@mygateway:~# ping -s 192.168.100.42 PING 192.168.100.42: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from…
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Cannot ping to localhost into CentOS

I'm connecting to my server (Centos 7) with ssh and I try to ping to localhost: ping 127.0.0.1 but doesn't work: ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 78 packets transmitted, 0…
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Apache Instance in Private Subnet not returning packets

How can we get the Apache instance in a private subnet to work? Configuration Public subnet with 1 NAT instance Private subnet with 1 App instance Details 1. Masquerading is turned on NAT on via iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j…
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TCP traceroute works fine but not UDP

So I ran into this issue where doing traceroute some-server.abc.com returned *** for multiple lines and finally reached maximum hops limit. Doing a traceroute -T some-server.abc.com works perfectly fine. I checked the man pages and by default…
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Any way to increase the libvirt guest network response time?

We are running a number of Debian Wheezy VMs on top of Ubuntu Servers 12.04.4 / Libvirt 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.17 The host is connected to the network through a trunk. It then split the VLANs and create a bridge for each of them with the following…
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ping seems to be timing out in a shorter duration than specified?

I'm seeing some weird behavior with the built in ping command that I don't understand. (this is on a windows 2012 r2 box - I haven't verified if this behavior is seen on other windows versions) If I set the timeout (in ms) to a value like 120, I…
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Windows XP VMs on ESXis not pinging each other

I'm running a virual environment of this sort. There's a UCS box that has several VMs. I've setup 3 Virtual ESXi VMs and vCenter Server appliance. Using the appliance, I installed 3 WinXP VMs on the ESXis. (One on each ESXi). The IP that I've…
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