Thursday, November 13, 2008

Explaination of thie PING command 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms

Explaination of thie PING command 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms

Ping (Packet InterNet Groper) is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP
network;

ICMP- Short for Internet Control Message Protocol, an extension to the Internet Protocol (IP) defined by RFC 792. ICMP
supports packets containing error, control, and informational messages. The PING command, for example, uses ICMP to
test an Internet connection.

TTL- Short for Time to Live, a field in the Internet Protocol (IP) that specifies how many more hops a packet can travel
before being discarded or returned.

seq (Unix), a program in the GNU Core Utilities and Plan 9 from Bell Labs that outputs a sequence of numbers

MS- When spelled ms, short for millisecond, one thousandth of a second. Access times of mass storage devices are often
measured in milliseconds.

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