IP Lab Introduction : - Nifalnasar/Fundamentals-of-Network GitHub Wiki

1. Understand PING and document it, then answer the following question: Ans: Ping is a fundamental networking tool that allows users to test connectivity and measure latency between devices on a network. Used for checking for the whether any devices in the network is live and reachable.

a. Use ping on google.com and document your results on the output you received. [Find the IP address, Time to live value, and round-trip time value from the results you got].

Ans: Pinging google.com we send 4 packets and get the reply from the google server showing how many packets are send and received.

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b. By default, ping will send 4 packets to check the details, here you must send 8 packets to check the output over google.com. Explain the purpose of doing it.

Ans: Sending 8 ping packets to google.com

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c. Ping your local host. Explain the purpose of doing it.

Ans: Pinging localhost We ping localhost generally for software testing purpose if pinging localhost fails the firewall blocking ICMP requests.

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