10/31/2011
Ping Device
What is a Ping?
Ping is a
fundamental program that allows a computer to send a request to another
specific computer somewhere else over the network or the Internet in order to verify
if the computer exists and is responding. That means Ping was created to verify
whether a specific computer on a network or the Internet exists and is
connected. A ping sends a series of
packets of data to a specific address and waits for a correctly named
"pong" response.
The word
"ping" is actually an acronym for "Packet Internet (or
Inter-Network) Groper", purposely contrived to play on the fact that
pinging with a computer is...
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