Questions tagged [ping]
A tool commonly used to test the reachability of a given host, either on the internet or in a local network.
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For veth pair, ping does not recognize interface name and tc qdisc netem does not work
I have Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with hwe kernel 4.13.0-39-generic. I configure the veth pair in the default network namespace as follows:
$ sudo ip link add h1-eth0 type veth peer name h2-eth0
$ sudo ip ...
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From server cannot ping server itself by its hostname while can ping by its IP
I host an ubuntu server at a data center and worked well for years till last night the server can not ping itself by host name. No config has been changed. Here are what it can/can not do now.
From ...
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name resolves doesn't work in chroot for users, but does for root
I've booted a live-cd in order to download, compile and install a few packages on a otherwise working system without actually booting said system.
I've created a build user on the system by issuing ...
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In what cases, can ping receive response when the IP address is not assigned to a network interface?
Is ping supposed to test if an IP address has been assigned to a network interface and if the network interface is reacheable?
Stephen replies at Why is some virtual network interface assigned ...
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Why specify packet size during ping test?
Does it make a difference to specify packet size during ping tests (RedHat)?
Engineers in my company asked for ping checks with packet size of 2000 bytes (-s 2000). On certain systems, this fails, ...
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How to print multiple values from a file? [closed]
#!/bin/bash
COUNT=100
SIZE=100
INTERVAL=0.2
for myHost in `cat /files0/home/singhtr/input`
do
echo $myHost
ping -i $INTERVAL -q -n -s $SIZE -c $COUNT $myHost|grep -i packet
done
The input ...
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Perpetually ping 3 devices from startup [duplicate]
I wish to ping three local devices, every 5 min, without stopping, from a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian OS. When my Pi powers on, I want that to automatically start.
I saw an old post about it, ...
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Ping not working in a new C container
I've been working on writing my own Linux container from scratch in C. I've borrowed code from several places and put up a basic version with namespaces & cgroups.
Basically, I clone a new ...
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How to find jitter?
I'm looking for a way to find the jitter using bash commands.
I know I can use ping <Server Address> to find the latency, and then by calculating the delta between the packets I can find the ...
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hping3 reports higher latency than ping
I'm just checking the network latency with different tools e.g. with hping3:
sudo hping3 -A -n -p 80 www.google.ro
HPING www.google.ro (ppp0 172.217.20.3): A set, 40 headers + 0 data bytes
len=40 ...
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ping: network unreachble although I have an IP through DHCP [closed]
I am about to install Archlinux on a root server via VNC. For installation Archlinux needs an internet connection. If I run ip addr it seems to me that I get an IPv6 address via DHCP (every reboot it'...
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'ping' uses localhost instead of public IP address
Let's say my server has IP address 11.22.33.44 and hostname server1.mydomain.com.
When I ping server1.mydomain.com, it looks as if ping is actually using the public IP address:
# ping server1....
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How to Disable Ping ( TCP ) in Linux all the time? [closed]
I want to disable ping response all the time.
I use the following command for disable ICMP ping
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j DROP
what should I do for disable TCP ping ?
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Script for checking if device is online, if not then do something
I'm building an IP Camera Server for rtsp ffmpeg capture and 24/7 purposes. Only thing that is missing is a script that checks connectivity of the camera and if it's not reachable there should be ...
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Ping - big packet size problems
I have some problems with pinging hosts with big packet size.
I'm doing some research on latency between one configuration and another.
I have written bash/zsh script to make it simpler that pings 8....
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iscsiadm: cannot make connection to <IP>: No route to host
when I try iscsiadm discovery:
iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p <IP>
I get this error:
iscsiadm: cannot make connection to <IP>: No route to host
however, I can ping the IP fine....
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Ping responses missing but can see them in tcpdump
Redhat 2.6.32-754.el6.x86_64
I have an FPGA card acting as a NIC with an associated driver.
On my RH host, if I run ping through the FPGA NIC I see lots of missing responses. However, if I also run ...
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No internet connection in chroot environment (customizing iso)
I want to customize a Ubuntu Desktop Iso and I have come that far, that I am in the chroot environment.
The problem is that I do not have Internet access in there to install anything.
I just can ...
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Exclude interface when send ICMP ping
for build small linux application I need to check the internet connectivity of the system. But my box have multiple network interfaces with interfaced for backup internet connection. I need to do some ...
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outputting 2 positions from same file into script and then echo
I have a file which looks like this:
Sender Bob IP 10.1.1.1
Sender Alex IP 10.1.1.2
Sender Jim IP 10.1.1.3
10 lines like this in same format.
I need to echo Name and IP.
While iterating through my ...
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Ping to any ip does not work on ppp0 from USB 3G modem Huawei using wvdial
I have a Debian OS on a Banana pi and I use a Huawei 3G modem to connect to the internet from it using the wvdial tool. I also have the usb-modeswitch installed and I think the modem is working as a ...
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ping6: 'Name or service not known' when using %iface notation
From man ping:
-I interface
interface is either an address, or an interface name. If interface is an address, it sets source address to specified interface address. If interface in an interface ...
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linux & identify the interface name on remote machine
lets say I want to ping to some machine as from my machine - moon
ping -c 1 master01
now I want to understand what is the interface name in master01 machine that get the packet from ping
so how we ...
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Can't access internal network but Internet
I have a strange problem with one Ubuntu-system in my network. As well as some other Linux-boxes it is located in an internal network in IP range 192.168.1.x with full access to all other systems in ...
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Ping : Name or service not known
So i am creating this bash script but it is giving me an error that ** name or service not known .**
The code is :
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" == "" ]
then
echo "Hello"
echo "Bye"
else
for x in 'seq 1 254'...
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Trying to ping IP of one VM from another VM: Destination Host Unreachable
I have 2 VMs. One acts as a client and the other acts as a server. For the server VM, I set an IP address like this:
sudo ifconfig enp0s8 192.168.0.73/24 up
And for the client VM, I set the IP ...
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I want allow user to execute *only* ping utility using SELinux
I did it already with rbash (restricted bash) but now I want to use SELinux.
So I created new user and add him to guest_u:
semanage login -a -s guest_u restricteduser
also I forbid him to execute ...
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interpreting the overall time in ping results [closed]
I have two different machines I am doing pings on.
The hosts setup of the machine (OS, installed software, etc.) are identical. The only difference is they are in two different networks.
These ...
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Does ping omit iptables / postrouting rules
I have a server with a proxmox installation and only 1 outbound connection (eth0).
To make the machines network between each other I created a network bridge (vmbr0) in the interfaces configuration ...
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What is the relation between test results of ping and telnet?
Is it correct that
if ping host fails, telnet host port will fail too. But not vice versa.
i.e. if telnet host port succeeds, ping host will succeed too. But not vice versa.
Thanks.
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Does `ping` connect to a ICMP server?
ping - send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
when I run ping host in terminal, is ping a ICMP client?
Does ping connect to a ICMP server running on host? What is the program which is the ICMP ...
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server stuck at the boot process:RECEIVED SIGTERM
The issue is when I try to log in the server using SSh , it's not responding and cannot be pinged. And when I go to the console and reboot the server, its stuck in the reboot process. How Can this ...
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Using the ping command on my VirtualBox Debian System returns no route but I can still connect to websites
For further clarification, I'm using a bridged adapter on VirtualBox and it's set to allow VMs (it is also using the correct adapter).
This is what the terminal responds with after running the ...
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How to specify nmap to add redirect address?
I'm trying to ping the health of VM's using nmap utility.
# nmap -v -n -sP 192.168.102.116
Host 192.168.102.116 appears to be down.
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping ...
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Continuous ping loop in script
I am working on some custom Openwrt compilation. Some of my scripts do ping for testing connection before doing their stuff.
if [ "$(ping -c 1 -w 3 8.8.8.8)" ]; then
do stuff;
else
echo "no ...
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Is there a ping-like program that will return false when a packet is lost?
I'm trying to diagnose network instability on my home LAN -- I'm losing connectivity between my router and my cable modem. In my shell script, I'd like to ping the first ip address past the modem, and ...
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How to change `ping from` value when pinging Linux server?
Content of hostname file in my server is:
# cat /etc/hostname
sub.mysite.com
But when I ping my CentOS 7 server it says:
# ping sub.mysite.com
64 bytes from sub ...
Even:
# ping ns1.mysite.com
...
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How to do a ping test through a non default routing table?
I have a Linux box acting as a router for my home network. it has 3 routing tables:
# ip route show default
default via 192.168.5.1 dev wlp2s0
172.18.231.140/30 dev wwx0c5b8f279a64 proto kernel ...
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ping command always returns zero exit code in cygwin
I just noticed the ping command always returns zero exit code in cygwin.
I installed it as a package ping.
Actual output:
$ ping 192.168.0.102 -c 1
PING 192.168.0.102 (192.168.0.102): 0 data bytes
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Remote host pingable from Mac but not from Virtualbox VM
I have a remote that I can ping from my macbook's terminal. But when I start my VirtualBox Ubuntu 16.04 VM and ping the same remote host, its not pingable and I get an error saying "Destination Host ...
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I need to ping a list of ip addresses from a file and log the status as “up” or “down”
I am needing to ping a list of host addresses (non-sequential) and log the output as "up" or "down". I've got a start but my script seems faulty. For example. when i run the following script ...
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Script to check server status from polybar
I'm currently running Arch with i3 and polybar. I also maintain 6 servers, so to make my life easier I made a series of shell scripts to notify me if a server is down.
The scripts work, but it's far ...
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ping over wlanX when X is unknown
I've been running a bash script which updates the hosts table and tests a connection to a specific host. It runs successfully on a number of machines. Along the way, it checks communication with a ...
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Create shell script to ssh inside remote host and ping from that host
I want to ssh into a remote host and ping another IP from that host. However, with the following script, I am only able to ssh into that host.
#!/bin/sh
sshpass -p <password> ssh -t -o ...
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Why ping hop dest doesn't work?
Why this would work in linux : ping -I ens3 8.8.8.8 and not ping 192.168.5.1 8.8.8.8 where 192.168.5.1 is the default gateway and so the next hop? In place I have a
permission denied: attempting raw ...
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Can't ping 2 machines through a switch
2 machines are connected through a switch. I have configured static IPs for both of them.
Machine 1 is 192.168.0.3, whereas machine 2 is 192.168.0.5. Both have 255.255.255.0 for netmask address.
I ...
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How to route traffic over specific interface on linux (debian)?
I would like to route traffic over usb0 (a cellular modem) when it is available instead of eth0. The ip address for usb0 may change over time. How do I create a route in this scenario since the ip ...
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Suppress “Name or service not known” on ping
I have several Raspberry Pi's named numerically (pi0, pi1, etc). They have static IP addresses, but I wanted a simple tool to check on them and make sure they were online even if they got the wrong IP ...
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IPv6 forwarding doesn't work
I have three Virtual Machines: A, B, C.
Machine A and Machine C connected to each other through the B.
Their config:
A's IP: 2000::ffff:50a:b0b/120
C's IP: 2000::ffff:50a:d0d/120
Machine B has ...
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Cannot Ping Site but DNS Resolves
I am using DNS-crypt proxy as a local DNS server with cloudflare as the resolver.
For some reason I cannot ping www.automaticwebforms.com despite the DNS resolving:
ping
$ ping www....
