I read here about "Pinging" and "Trace Route" testing of signals and
connections. I understand what a ping is or does and the trace route
seems reasonably clear.

Can someone direct me to infommation on what commands are used/given
to accomplish these tests?

When I have "pinged" in the past, I have done this as a DOS command
which raises the question is there a windows interface for these
tests, or does one just open a command window? (I have Windows XP
Home as my OS)

Gordon
Atlanta
SPAM has driven me to Spoof my email, sorry

Gordon Potter
Atlanta, GA

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:11:26 -0400, Gordon Potter wrote:
I think your gui interface is Start-> Run ping 24.92.155.132
down side you have to read fast to get the last few lines.

cmd will work with ping, tracert.

There are some third party tools out there like ping plotter

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On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:11:26 -0400, Gordon Potter
<nospam@bellsouth.net> wrote:


Larry W4CSC

"No, NO, Mr Spock! I said beam me down a WRENCH,
not a WENCH! KIRK OUT!"

Gordon:

Open a Command prompt (COMMAND or CMD from start --> run)

Type; ping -?
This will provide the commandline switches to the PING command.

Type; tracert -?
This will provide the commandline switches to the Trace Route command.

PING Example:
ping -a yahoo.com

Pinging yahoo.com [66.218.71.198] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 66.218.71.198: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=239
Reply from 66.218.71.198: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=239
Reply from 66.218.71.198: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=239
Reply from 66.218.71.198: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=239

Ping statistics for 66.218.71.198:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 90ms, Maximum = 100ms, Average = 92ms


TRACERT Example:
tracert yahoo.com

Tracing route to yahoo.com [66.218.71.198]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms 10.5.61.1
2 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms at-4-0-0-1712.CORE-RTR1.NWRK.verizon-gni.net [13
0.81.7.41]
3 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms so-0-2-0-0.BB-RTR2.NWRK.verizon-gni.net [130.81.
7.157]
4 20 ms 20 ms 30 ms so-3-2-0-0.BB-RTR2.PHIL.verizon-gni.net [130.81.
7.182]
5 20 ms 30 ms 30 ms so-1-0-0-0.BB-RTR2.RES.verizon-gni.net [130.81.9
..30]
6 20 ms 30 ms 30 ms so-7-0-0-0.PEER-RTR1.ASH.verizon-gni.net [130.81
..10.94]
7 20 ms 30 ms 30 ms exchange-cust1.ash.equinix.net [206.223.115.16]

8 91 ms 100 ms 100 ms ge-2-2-0-p805.pat2.pao.yahoo.com [216.115.98.45]

9 90 ms 100 ms 91 ms vl28.bas1.scd.yahoo.com [216.115.101.42]
10 90 ms 90 ms 100 ms w1.rc.vip.scd.yahoo.com [66.218.71.198]

Trace complete.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dave



"Gordon Potter" <nospam@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:2c96iv85coaufkgpaerg8e3b3cnava5hf3@4ax.com...
| I read here about "Pinging" and "Trace Route" testing of signals and
| connections. I understand what a ping is or does and the trace route
| seems reasonably clear.
|
| Can someone direct me to infommation on what commands are used/given
| to accomplish these tests?
|
| When I have "pinged" in the past, I have done this as a DOS command
| which raises the question is there a windows interface for these
| tests, or does one just open a command window? (I have Windows XP
| Home as my OS)
|
| Gordon
| Atlanta
| SPAM has driven me to Spoof my email, sorry
|
| Gordon Potter
| Atlanta, GA

Gordon Potter wrote:

I've been using NetScanTools from http://www.nwpsw.com/ and have been
satisfied.

You can try this also...

http://www.all-nettools.com/tools1.htm

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