Power of ping command

Do you know why most of the network admins like the dos prompt in windows..?

Ans. the power of ping command..

What is ping command?


Ping command is using to check the connection between two

nodes in a network....

Eg. we can check the internet connection from dos prompt by ping ..


Format: ping www.networksolutions4u.blogspot.com

After pressing enter windows will sent a packet to the yahoo server

If there is a connection between
www.networksolutions4u.blogspot.com server and the pc we will get a reply.

Other wise the request will be timed out.

It is one of the simple applications of ping...