Ping in windows
1. Opening the command prompt
To ping an IP address in windows OS, first you need to open the command prompt. You can do this by opening the ‘run’ dialog box first, by pressing the shortcut key ‘windows_key + r’.
This will open the ‘run’ dialog box.
Opening the command prompt in windows
Now, type ‘cmd’ in the ‘run’ dialog box and hit the ‘enter’ key.
This will open the command prompt.
2. Viewing the options for ping
Lets explore various options to be used with ping command in windows simply typing the name of the command ‘ping’ in the terminal and pressing ‘enter’.
ping
ping in windows
As you can see in the above screenshot, there are number of options available to use with the ping command.
3. Executing ping
Let us test the ping command by pinging the google DNS server which has the IP address ‘8.8.8.8’.
ping 8.8.8.8
pinging the google DNS server
How to ping an Ip on windows macos and Linux
Ping is a command line networking utility that uses ICMP packets to check if a logical route is available to communicate with a specific host. A failure of the ping command doesn’t necessarily mean that the host is down. There are many other possible reasons for the failure. Along with the primary purpose of ping, this command can also provide insights about some of the useful networking parameters, such as Round Trip Time (RTT). Ping is available by default in all three operating systems. So, usually, you don’t need any prerequisites for executing this command.
The term ‘ping‘, in computer terms, refers to sending a message to a host to check if the host is up (alive and running) or down (dead). For simplification, think of ping as a message that contains the question ‘Hey, are you there?’. This might sound simple, but it is one of the handy commands still used by network engineers to troubleshoot various network issues. In this article, we will learn how to ping a host using its IP address, from the top 3 operating systems – Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.