Ping script for windows 7

Otherwise it exits with code 0. This makes it possible to use the exit code to see if a host is alive or not. From man ping : -w deadline Specify a timeout, in seconds, before ping exits regardless of how many packets have been sent or received.

In this case ping does not stop after count packet are sent, it waits either for deadline expire or until count probes are answered or for some error notification from network. Mike Mazur Mike Mazur 2, 16 16 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges.

This is the only correct solution. There are many other reasons that ping would fail when an SSH connection would succeed. The script:! I'd rather dup stdin or so, but how? Here's my hack: ipaddress shell variable can be provided as an argument to the script. Acknowledging the original question referenced Bash, here's an example for anyone looking to accomplish this in Fish shell: ping -q -c 1 bogus.

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I'll describe how I did it after short description of what it is I need and why one may need it. Ping: this is reply by the machine on the network when request is sent to this machine's IP address. Why it is necessary: suppose you have multiple machines and you want to know if there is machine on the network with given IP. That's when you use ping. Many network admins routinely use that and windows machines are their pain as these by default do not respond ping MS must be scared since infamous "Ping of death" You should be done.

The hrPing tool itself is one of the most advanced of its type and allows you to configure just about anything you want with regards to what you ping, how often you ping it and when. There are around 40 different command line arguments available so reading the documentation is recommended for more advanced usage. Luckily you only need a few of the available arguments to ping with a timestamp and optionally send the results to a text file.

Use -t to loop the ping until you manually stop it, -T adds the time and date stamp while -F [filename] allows saving the output to a text file include -q to output only to file. To ping a specific number of times instead of continuously, substitute -t for -n [number]. Also, you can use -s [milliseconds] to reduce the ping frequency from half a second to something a bit slower.

An additional argument of -gg will open a separate window with a small graph of ping response times pictured above , useful if you have a particular interest in the speed of the ping responses. Download hrPING. Simply use pingwiz [hostname] and it will add the time and date with pinging the host four times. A manual redirection to an output file is required if you want to send the ping results to a log file. Unlike hrPING, this tool will not show ping results in the console window and redirect to a file at the same time.

Download PingWiz. PingInfoView by Nirsoft is a little different to the other tools because it works from a graphical user interface. This makes it easy to spot ping errors more quickly if you are actively monitoring and watching for issues because they will show up in the user interface as red entries. PingInfoView does have some command line options but they are to control ping rates and file saving in the user interface.

On launch, PingInfoView will popup a window where you can add one or a number of addresses to monitor, the ping timeout and the repeat rate default is to ping every 5 seconds.

Press OK and the main window will appear. Click on a host in the upper pane to show the individual time stamped ping results at the bottom as they come in. When you have finished monitoring press the Stop button on the toolbar. Download PingInfoView.

PowerPing is an open source tool hosted on GitHub. There are also around 40 commands available to control the pinging process and perform a few extra functions. Typing PowerPing and using just the hostname will perform a standard five pings, including —t will make it continuous.

TOS is specified as a decimal value from 0 through Specifies the Record Route option in the IP header is used to record the path taken by the echo Request message and corresponding echo Reply message available on IPv4 only. Each hop in the path uses an entry in the Record Route option. If possible, specify a count equal to or greater than the number of hops between the source and destination. The count must be a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 9.

Specifies that the Internet timestamp option in the IP header is used to record the time of arrival for the echo Request message and corresponding echo Reply message for each hop. The count must be a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 4. This is required for link-local destination addresses. Specifies the echo Request messages use the Loose Source Route option in the IP header with the set of intermediate destinations specified in hostlist available on IPv4 only. With loose source routing, successive intermediate destinations can be separated by one or multiple routers.

The maximum number of addresses or names in the host list is 9. The host list is a series of IP addresses in dotted decimal notation separated by spaces.