“Ping,” a command that was designed – and used for many years – to confirm communication with and/or round-trip latency to an IP address or URL, has become much less useful. And this is really a shame ...

Network tools are essential for solving issues with a computer network that is not performing as it should. There are quite a few things can do to aid in returning a network to its rightful state, and ...

If you've used networking commands on Windows, such as ping and tracert, you might wonder if you can use them on Linux, whether on its own or part of WSL. Fortunately, you can. I remember sitting in a ...

We recently wrote about the diminishing usability of “ping” and “tracert” due to the use of these commands as components of various types of network attacks. We also expressed our dismay that by ...

Wireless networks have now mostly replaced wired LAN and you will find an abundance of wireless networks everywhere. Windows 11/10 offers various ways to manage your wireless networks using the ...

The PathPing command is an interesting utility as it combines both the ping and tracert commands into one tool. Using this tool, you can check the route your request makes when connecting to a remote ...

I have found a host on our WAN that is dual homed. I am assuming that this host has routing enabled. There are three hops between me and this host. I would like to use this host as a router and query ...

I'm looking for some clarity on the inner workings of traceroute and ping record-route. Here's my understanding.<BR><BR>Traceroute sends UDP (ports 33434-33534) packets with a destination IP as ...