- Most people who work in the IT industry are fairly familiar with the ping tool. To determine whether a host is alive using ping, you merely need to pass an argument to the command to define the IP address that you wish to test:
- When this command is issued, an ICMP echo request will be sent directly to the IP address provided. Several conditions must be true in order to receive a reply to this ICMP echo request. These conditions are as follows:
- The IP address tested must be assigned to a system
- The system must be alive and online
- There must be an available route from the scanning system to the target IP
- The system must be ...
