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Commands using ping

Terminal - Commands using ping - 57 results

( nw=192.168.0 ; h=1; while [ $h -lt 255 ] ; do ( ping -c2 -i 0.2 -W 0.5 -n $nw.$h & ); h=$[ $h + 1 ] ; done ) | awk '/^64 bytes.*/ { gsub( ":","" ); print $4 }' | sort -u

2009-06-07 15:14:46

User: masterofdisaster

Functions: awk ping sort

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Poor man's nmap for a class C network from rfc1918

What do you do when nmap is not available and you want to see the hosts responding to an icmp echo request ? This one-liner will print all hosts responding with their ipv4 address.

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for f in `jot - 0 50 5` ; do ping -c 1 -m 50 10.0.2.$f ; done

2009-03-23 23:51:18

User: chinkshady

Functions: ping

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sequence of numbers in a for loop

Say you need to ping every 5th IP address on your network .. this will give you a way of doing that.

jot can also do counting ... like

jot 4

download from http://oreilly.com/catalog/upt2/examples/#jot or fins athena-jot in rpm format

ping -i 60 -a IP_address

2009-03-04 06:21:22

User: haivu

Functions: ping

Tags: Network

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Set audible alarm when an IP address comes online

Waiting for your server to finish rebooting? Issue the command above and you will hear a beep when it comes online. The -i 60 flag tells ping to wait for 60 seconds between ping, putting less strain on your system. Vary it to your need. The -a flag tells ping to include an audible bell in the output when a package is received (that is, when your server comes online).

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ping -c 10 hostname

2009-03-04 06:14:52

User: haivu

Functions: ping

Tags: Network

-4

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Ping 10 times then quit

On Linux and Mac systems (I have not tested with other Unix systems), the ping command will keep on pinging until the user interrupts it with Ctrl+C. On Windows system, ping will execute for a number of times then quit. The -c flag on Linux and Mac will make this happen

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for ip in $(seq 1 25); do ping -c 1 192.168.0.$ip>/dev/null; [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo "192.168.0.$ip UP" || : ; done

2009-02-11 14:57:34

User: kakaroto_win2k

Functions: echo ping seq

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how to like to know if a host is ON

this is very useful when there is a different network host to determine which are turned on or not

ping localip -c 1 -W 1 &> /dev/null && ssh localip || ssh globalip

2009-02-05 10:40:26

User: trey

Functions: ping ssh

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SSH to a machine's internet address if it is not present on your local network

Ping machine once, waiting 1 second for response until failing. Upon fail, ssh globally, otherwise ssh locally.

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ping google.com | tee ping-output.txt

2009-01-29 10:26:59

User: root

Functions: ping tee

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Ping a URL sending output to file and STDOUT

The tee (as in "T" junction) command is very useful for redirecting output to two places.

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