WinPing
is a tool that has been designed to enhance the basic pinging
capabilities of Windows. Among the additions are: Infinite looping
pings, Multi-ping, adjustable number of retries, Displaying of
information about hosts, and saving the ping results in a log file.
Enter a web address or a valid host name,
e.g. http://www.google.com or google.com, or a valid IP address, e.g.
98.137.149.56 (IPv4) ,[2a00:1450:8006::93] (IPv6). The IP addresses are
converted into host names and conversely. An empty input gives local IP
address.
The button "Options..." opens the WinPing
options: Infinite Loop (runs pings in a infinite loop and shows the
average in real time), Time options (Timeout, Temporisation between
every ping in milliseconds), Multiping (for several pings one after the
other), Retries, Average of the response times, Hostname List,
ip-to-country File... Sort and Replace utilities will allow you to edit
and save host name list, countries list or any text file.
The "Auto-Save" option will allow you to save thousands of lines of pinging information (in Infinite Loop Mode).
A Ping Graph (with axis scale and Y-offset
adjustment) allows you easily to view, in real time, Average and Pings
points for every loop. You can easily save and load the Ping Curves
using the Graph Options.
This version updates ping error messages, and
updates IP address pinging. Now you can ping an IPv6 address, and you
can show all resolved IP addresses of a domain name.
This program works with all version of
Windows. If your system is Windows XP or older, it requires the
Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or higher.
Pros
A
ping is essentially a utility that is already part of most OS including
Windows, that can be used to detect connectivity. This is done by
sending out a message to a remote host (IP address, or URL / alias) and
hearing for a reply. This process is called pinging after the nautical
term which describes a similar process of sending a ping and hearing for
a reply.
Cons
It
does little to add to the existing Ping application in Windows, except
for adding a couple of options such as infinite pinging and logging of
each ping. Neither of this is of much use for anyone, including hardcore
networking people. Extra information about a host can be gotten from a
WHOIS query. It is not at all clear why this information is required as
part of the Ping reply. Basically, this tool will be useful for a person
who is specifically interested in trying out various flavors of pinging
and not for too many others. If the application had supplied a trace
route feature or a link to a trace route server then it could possibly
be much more interesting. But even then there are web based applications
already available for that purpose. For basic network troubleshooting
the in-built Windows ping application is more than sufficient.
Thankfully, this is freeware, so enthusiasts can try and play around
with it to their heart’s content. Users should be aware that there will
be run-ins with their Firewall / Network Security suite when using
pings, disable those before you can receive them.
Source : patrice-zwenger.co.cc
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