Using Ping

Ping is a utility available on both Red Hat Linux 6 and Microsoft Windows that tests basic low-level network functionality. If you can ping a host, you know that the basic network communication with that host is functioning (although you don't know much about what higher-level services might be available on the host).

On the other hand, if ping does not show communication with the host, you can be pretty sure you have a basic networking problem.

To ping a host from Linux:

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At the command prompt, type ping followed by the domain or IP address of the host you want to ping. For example, type ping www.bearhome.com
2.
Press Enter. Unless there is a problem, you'll get a response showing the round-trip packet transmission to the host(

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