Ping

Hi,

I just wanted to know if there is a good PING tool which runs on windows platform. Plus give me controll over its options.

i'm not sure what you mean?
for *nix there is hPing...
i dunno much about any windows tools?
there is the "ping" command:

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Usage: ping [-t] [-a] [-n count] [-l size] [-f] [-i TTL] [-v TOS]

            [-r count] [-s count] [[-j host-list] | [-k host-list]]

            [-w timeout] destination-list



Options:

    -t            Ping the specified host until stopped.

                  To see statistics and continue - type Control-Break;

                  To stop - type Control-C.

    -a            Resolve addresses to hostnames.

    -n count      Number of echo requests to send.

    -l size        Send buffer size.

    -f            Set Don't Fragment flag in packet.

    -i TTL        Time To Live.

    -v TOS        Type Of Service.

    -r count      Record route for count hops.

    -s count      Timestamp for count hops.

    -j host-list  Loose source route along host-list.

    -k host-list  Strict source route along host-list.

    -w timeout    Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply.

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isn't pinging from DOS just about as good as it gets?

Guys i ment a tool which helps me ping huge metworks at a time

nmap (www.nmap.org) does a ping sweep...
is that what you want?

I don't use Windows, however I believe that this : http://www.ipswitch.com/products/WS_Ping/ ; may be along the lines of what you are looking for. It would seem that this is a pretty comprehensive suite of utilities.
There are some decent web based utilities as well. I don't know that any of them give you control of the switches you could pass to the command, but the tools work. Check out :
http://nitrous.digex.net/
http://codeflux.com/tools.html
http://www.visualware.com/visualroute/index.html

I'm sure that a good google search will turn up more if you're interested..

Regards,
Chefer

The normal ping command does alot. It has a lot of parameters and options. rtfm on the ping that is on your computer.

Cheers.

First of all, i hope the network scan is for local use... but heh... I'll leave the ethics up to you...

There's a simple but good scanner, I use from time to time.....

http://www.angryziber.com/ipscan/ , you can dld it , or open it from the weppage ;)

The range has to be following though..... like 172.16.100.1 - 172.16.100.255....

Hope this is what ya mean ,

I've tried all the ping scanners mentioned, and NMap is by far the most complete.

hey,
currently i am designing a custom built ping utility in C/C++
as soon as i finish it i will post it on the site.
till then,
cheers.

hey dotperfect, does your app build Ping packlets or just shell a ping command?

Windows, hmmmm.....gotta go with NMAP for Windows or NetScanTools Pro me thinks.

I use a program called samspade that has the ability to ping, finger, dig, whois.....etc. It's a really nice program. Try searching for it on google.

::coffee::

ccKid

What Is A PINGFLOOD???

wicked

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Originally posted here by downloader
What Is A PINGFLOOD???

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A ping flood is as the name suggests: a huge amount of pings, so great that it "floods" the connection of a host (computer) to a network. Ping of Death was one of the more popular ones in the early/mid 90s due to flaws in Win95 and various Linuxes. Floods, or by the more common name of DoS (Denial of Service), have evolved as time has gone on to include amplification floods (where pings are amplified by routers -- broadcast pings can be effective for this), distribution (aka DDoS), etc. Today, we often see modification of packets including source address, TOS information, size, fragmentation, etc.

Hope this helps.

You can find out more information using google and the terms ping flood dos. :D

:rolleyes: just install linux. everything you want to do in a network is much easier under this OS. and speaking about ping, i don't understand why you said that the ping command is not good enough. If you don't want to use linux, you should try to write your own ping command. it's not very hard if you have some programming knowledges and if you know C.

Honestly I only ever use the -t option in PING, NMAP for port scanning, and SolarWinds for network ping scans. But upon further investigation there seems to be a way to use the default ping util in Windows/dos to ping multiple hosts with one command, ie ping "destination-lists". Has anyone used the "destination-lists" on the ping command. Or is the term of "lists" just a mistype (Heaven Forbid) from M$? I also noticed in XP it no longer says destination-lists, but target_name.

nmap is the best, it does everything, plus in stealth, its very good.