What purpose does ping an ip address have?

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What purpose does ping an ip address have?

Answer 1

You company may have a firewall set up such that you can't access your office computer from the outside.



To answer your question on PING, it's a feature that allows you to check if a computer or device is hooked up to the internet. It will respond with the amount of time (usually in milliseconds - msec) that it takes from the computer or device on the other end to respond.

Answer 2

Ping Ip will tell you packet turnaround time

also can be used to verify an IP is reachable



when you suspect something else is wrong



use tracert [url]



this will display the ping atttempt at each transfer

if it stops at your router guess whats wrong?

it could go all accross the US and head out over the Atlantic

only to end in Denmark short of its destination

Answer 3

'Pinging' is simply testing to see if there is an active I.P address. If it times out then the I.P address is not active. Dodgy cable? Or something like that....

Answer 4

Ping is to see if the 2 computers can communicate on the most basic level. Basically one computer sends data to another and the other computer sends it back. If the ping times out the 2 computers are not communicating at all.

Answer 5

Ping An Ip

Answer 6

Pinging has already been covered here, as has a firewall which your company will certainly have - put it this way: If you ran a company, would you want to let everyone have free access to the computers? Absolutely not! Speak to the sysadmins or tech support guys at your company, it'll either turn out that this is something company policy forbids, or they'll show you how to do it.

Answer 7

it determines the speed in which you receive a response, when you say "ping me" you want to know how long it takes for someone to send you something, we used to do that a lot on the MIRC, cuz some times it would seem like you were being ignored, when really, it depends on the speed of the person you want a response from basically, it's just the distance to see if your network is slow, or their's is slow, and at work, you usually have a lan connection. It also depends on the firewall. If you can ping something, you will see if you are connecting to them, it times out because it isn't getting to where you are trying to send it. Actually, GordonH has a great response.

Answer 8

The ping test is to show if you can connect to that remote computer from where you're at. If the connection fails, there's several reasons.



Most common reason: There's a firewall either on your office computer or your office network that doesn't allow remote access. See link for more info.

Answer 9

Basically the ping is a troubleshooting technique where a small packet of information is sent and sent back, so you can see whether it made it and how long it took. Since the ping is timing out, your message isn't getting there. You can try the port forwarding to see if that fixes it, but it is probably a physical problem--swap cables around to see if one is bad, and check the communication lights on your connections (modem, routers, etc.).

Answer 10

If you have Windows go to Start, Run and type command . This opens up a black command window, otherwise known as a DOS box. In the command box type 'ping 127.0.0.1' (without the quote marks) and press



This checks that you have the correct network protocol installed on your PC. The 127.0.0.1 is know as the loopback address and is basically pinging yourself. Don't worry, it doesn't hurt. You will get some lines that tell you whether the ping was successful or not and how long they took if it was.



You need to know the IP address of the computer you want to ping, The IP address is the 4 numbers with dots between them. The numbers are always between 0 and 255. You can also ping a domain name so: ping http://www.project-x-day-job-killer.com will try to ping my website and report back the IP address at the same time. This is known as DNS translation - turning the user friendly names into computer friendly numbers.



TCP/IP networking (the protocol of the internet) is a huge subject and takes many books to understand so don't feel aggrieved if the understanding doesn't come easily. It will come with time.



You may find that you cannot remote connect to the desktop because you or it is behind a firewall which is blocking the port numbers needed for the control. Now you'll need port numbers explained too, won't you? See! It never ends...

Answer 11

Pining is usually a way of computers\nodes communicating with each other then to ping a computer is usually just to get a response! moreover Pinging is generally used diagnostically to make sure that a host computer\node you are trying to reach is actually operating\active. If, for example, a user can't ping a host, then the user will be unable to use the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to send files to that host. Ping can also be used with a host that is operating to see how long it takes to get a response back! a ramdon request from an unsoliciated node from a hacker without some firewall protection could leave you computer vulnerable, because then they could use other methods to attack vulnerabillites using trojans etc. Pinging is a protocol used before other protocols like FTP can't actually be activated without the ping response before any other protocol request from a FTP for example this would be denied because it hasnt responded in the first place! Most firewalls pc's are a little more savvy, because it's whats in the packet of infomation, frames and everything else because this is the foundation of every protocol uses, packets, frames and everything else! each contains revelant info about your computer if it was unsolicated it would simply not be recgonised and your computer would relay the infomation back in a error. hope this helps,

Answer 12

There are 7 network layers from physical (cabling) to the software you run (Outlook, Internet). PING test physical connectivity between two devices, testing Layer1. Ping 127.0.0.1 and you will always ping yourself, this makes sure that your own hardware is ok. Then you ping the remote address.



goto command prompt and type in IPCONFIG

This will give you your network config. also do IPCONFIG /? to see the help file for additional commands.



read up on LANs and WANs. Your work computer is behind a router, firewall , etc. if you try to RD from work you probably use a private IP address, This private IP address does not leave your building. So you are correct, your network admin needs to allow remote desktop through NAT, forwarding, vpn, etc.

Answer 13

The ping command is used by hackers, but also it is used to verify a connection between two computer and/or a router or IP Address. The ping command is used to troubleshoot connections. If you ping an IP Address and you get a reply, this means your connection is good and packets are being sent and received. If you do not get a reply, then there is no connection and packets are being lost.

Answer 14

when you ping another address a very small packet of data is sent to the receiving computer and if connection is sucessful it sends the data back to confirm connection i used this when i was setting up the wireless connection at home

Answer 15

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you use ping just to check if a particular computer is available on the network if you get a response to your ping it means that the computer you pinged is on and the network is working, it's nothing evil

Answer 16

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Answer 17

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Answer 18

pinging it just lets you know that the ip address is open..

Answer 19

I don't think you'll be able to do it. Pinging is usually done by hackers trying to find open ports on computers, the ping is like radar or sonar, a signal is sent and the sender listens for an echo. That tell them they have an open port to gain access to a computer.

Answer 20

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