Question

When you send an Echo Request message with the ping program, a successful attempt will return an ______ message.

Answer 1

text ............................

Answer 2

When you send an ‘Echo Request message’ with the ping program, a successful attempt will return an echo reply message.

Explanation:

• Ping is one of the software utility programs used for testing the host’s reachability on an ‘IP network’.

• It can be seen in all virtually available OS which are having networking capability.  

• It includes most of the embedded network and the ‘administration software’. This ping usually operates by sending ICMP of the echo request packets to the targeted host and waiting for an echo reply.  

• This program reports packet loss, errors, statistical result summaries, and so on.