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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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Why does an IPv6 route added before virtual machine is started not work

I have an external server at Hetzner with Debian 7 and trying to setup KVM with IPv6 Routing (the same setup works for IPv4 without problems). I have one Ubuntu Server VM with two interfaces which are in two different subnet. The first interface ist…
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How light is a ping?

Hopefully this question isn't too dumb. I'm wondering how expensive (system resource, and bandwidth wise) a ping is. If I have a small embedded linux device that has very limited ram, cpu, and bandwidth would it be bad to start a ping command and…
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Does Linux support IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses?

I work in a mixed IPv4 / IPv6 environment. I read that IPv4 addresses can be mapped into the IPv6 space with this syntax ::ffff:1.2.3.4 (1.2.3.4 is the IPv4 address) Does Linux support this notation ? All these fail on my server: ping6…
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tcpdump on interface when pinging nonexistent hosts on local network

I've statically configured the IP address of an interface on a server: ip addr add 10.40.0.6/16 broadcast 10.40.255.255 dev eth1 If I try to ping a machine on the network (e.g., 10.40.0.1), it fails with "Destination Host Unreachable". When the…
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Server can't ping or connect to self

This SF Answer helped me after nerve's answer below: No network loopback device after security update ubuntu 12.04 Original Question I've been Google-ing and banging my head against the wall for a couple of hours on this one. The server can ping…
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Can you ping a Cisco Router's Loopback Interface from a PC using PacketTracer

I may be misunderstanding what you can do with a Router's loopback interface. I am trying to ping it from a PC on the same network. I am using Packet Tracer to simulate this, a Cisco 1841 and a PC from within the program. IPs Cisco 1841: interface…
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Cannot ping from a bridged inteface

I am trying to bridge between eth2 and br0 from Ubuntu 11.04 within virtual box. There is network bridging to host physical machine. From the guest OS after bridging I can ping from br0 but not from eth2. Why? ping -I eth2 bbc.co.uk: PING…
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Scan for connected, powered on computers on a network?

I want to scan for powered on computers on my LAN and gather logs about that. I tried nmap but it didn't work very well (a lot of switched on computers are not getting detected). nmap -sP 192.168.2.0/24 Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (10 hosts up)…
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negative time for a ping echo reply

I was happily pinging in the net when suddenly: Pinging X with 32 bytes of data: Reply from .235: bytes=32 time=1444ms TTL=41 Reply from .235: bytes=32 time=1767ms TTL=41 Reply from .235: bytes=32 time=1531ms TTL=41 Reply from .235: bytes=32…
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Permissions to Ping over an interface

My server is running CentOS 6. I have a Sprint Broadband device connected as ppp0. This connection has a tendency to need restarted, so I'm trying to monitor it with Nagios (this is used for other monitoring of my network already). I have a…
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Cannot ping Ubuntu server by hostname

I know this is already asked but I can't find a clear answer. I put a new Ubuntu server in my LAN and I can't ping it but the hostname. I don't want to edit all my LAN windows hosts's file (+40 pcs) and add the entry. Perhaps I have another Ubuntu…
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Why am I Unable to ping port 443 on Ubuntu?

I have opened port 443 through iptables: pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 45 2428 ACCEPT all -- lo * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 6 1009 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:80 141 10788 ACCEPT tcp -- …
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ping https when ICMP is blocked

I working with web servers that ICMP is disabled on them. On the other hand they answer to some https requests. I'm basically looking for http like ping capabilities in order to check if another server can reach that machine, and get some data about…
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Why can't I ping my server?

I am logged onto my Windows Server 2003. I am trying to ping another server that is Windows 2008 by using the command promt and putting in the ip address that I had given it. For some reason it seems to be timing out every time I ping it. If I try…
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How does ping work when a host name has multiple ip addresses?

For example, google.com has at least these ip: 74.125.225.49 74.125.225.51 74.125.225.81 Does ping just pick one of them randomly?
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