ping

Index

• Ping
  • Syntax
  • Storing Outputs
  • Example
  • Using Ping to Estimate Distance
• References

Ping

Pinging is literally sending requests to the network to the address you write after the command.

Syntax

The command for windows is given by ping address

Storing Outputs

Store this ping output by this ping <address> > output.txt

Example

For pinging nmims.in at college we got this output

Pinging nmims.in [95.217.93.209] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 95.217.93.209: bytes=32 time=140ms TTL=49
Reply from 95.217.93.209: bytes=32 time=139ms TTL=49
Reply from 95.217.93.209: bytes=32 time=263ms TTL=49
Reply from 95.217.93.209: bytes=32 time=229ms TTL=49
 
Ping statistics for 95.217.93.209:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 139ms, Maximum = 263ms, Average = 192ms

Using Ping to estimate distance

This is the most horrible way to estimate actual distance… Regardless

Here we got the delay to be 140ms for one packet to calculate the distance we will account for The Speed in copper wire is $2\ast 10^8$

To calculate the distance on an average basis (not accurate) we can apply

$velocity=distance/time$ $2\ast 10^8=distance/140\ast 10^{-}3$ therefore $distance=2\ast 10^8\ast 140\ast 10^{-}3$

Distance = 28000000m Distance = 280000km The distance it covered is probably 280,000 kms

To retrieve locations one shall check IP Lookup

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References

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• date: 2024.08.06
• time: 17:58