1.12 Ping and Traceroute
nPing: Packet Internet
Groper (PING)
–Used to test whether hosts are
alive
–The host sends an ICMP echo message and expects one
back from the remote end.
nTraceroute
–Used for diagnostic purposed to report
on paths
that datagrams take through the network for specified: source –
destination pair(s), source(s) or destination(s).