Alternative to ping

VBForums Visual Basic Network Programming Alternative To Ping? Jun 20th, 2005, 05:19 PM #1 Thread Starter Addicted Member Thread Starter--> Alternative To Ping? I'm trying to use ping to determine if a computer running a monitoring application is running on an external network. Unfortunately it looks like outbound ICMP packets are being blocked somewhere along my internal network. Is there anything else that I could do to achieve this? Jun 27th, 2005, 07:30 PM #2 Lively Member Re: Alternative To Ping? If the systems are running up-to-date patches and are clearly all behind a router, I suppose it'd be a safe assumption to say that they don't have firewall apps on each system.In that case, I'd try to establish a TCP connection to one of the windows services ports, DCOM, RPC, etc, although I don't know which are closed with the patches out now. I'd NETSTAT -n -a to see what ports are open on each box to decide what to test.edit: I re-read your post, and see you want to check an *external* system. In that case, you may have little to choose from. I'd try to get ICMP allowed on whatever network you are on, or since you are monitoring what are hopefully servers, try to establish connections to http daemon, etc VBForums Visual Basic Network Programming Alternative To Ping? Posting Permissions You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts BB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On [VIDEO] code is On HTML code is Off Forum Rules Click Here to Expand Forum to Full Width

When usage limits are about to be breached.Includes a home screen widget for long-running pings, and a Wake-on-LAN widget for waking a specific host.Recently used hosts, IP addresses and DNS servers are remembered for auto-completion.The results can be copied (via long-click on the output text), sent via email or stored in a file as text or PDF. A history of the results of recent operations is kept (swipe left and right to switch between tabs).Numerous options (like using an alternative name server, Ping TTL, showing ping times for each traceroute step, Broadcast Ping, using HTTPS, setting the HTTP port number, selection of DNS record types to query, etc.) are available.Contains no ads.Please join the Google Group "Ping & Net" where I support this app, especially if you're having problems.WHY THE GPS PERMISSION? First off, GPS is only accessed if the "Show Location" checkbox is set in the Ping Options dialog. This checkbox is turned off by default, so unless you explicitly set it, you don't need to worry about your location ever being tracked. Tracking location is useful for measuring ping times during long-running pings across large areas, like a factory or a university campus. Once a long-running ping with location is done, a Google Earth file (.dmz) is created that shows the ping times along with the geo location of each ping. Most people will never need this option, so you don't have to worry. And even if you do use it, location data is stored on the device,

You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Status Not open for further replies. #1 I do a lot of things with network maintenance, diagnostics, and security on my PC. I found pinging a site to test my latency from my SG3 was useful, testing when/where I get the best latency on my mobile data network.So without further a due, here is a short, simple but thorough tut1.) Download "Android Terminal Emulator" by from the Play Store, there are apps dedicated for pinging specifically; however I like to use the terminal/cmd prompt whenever I can. Manual work seems to give me the results I am looking for and nothing extra! (Most of you probably already have the Terminal Emulator downloaded.)Link to app on play.google.com: Open the terminal. Type in the command: ping example.comNote: example.com is a placeholder, insert any website you want to ping here.If you do not want to ping the site infinitely, then...Type the following command: ping -c4 example.com-c being a counter and 4 being the number of times you want to send a ping packet to the server. Four is the default for the ping function from the Windows Command Prompt so if you are used to that, then use four. #2 Screenshot of terminal/ping -c command after execution.Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app Attachments uploadfromtaptalk1366921000984.jpg Status Not open for further replies. Similar threads