Talking of pings

[Rik]

I just discovered a new command, which can be run from the CMD window in place of an ordinary ping. Called pathping, it's effectively a combination of ping and tracert:

Tracing route to www.idnet.net [212.69.36.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  0  BEANDESK [xx.xx.xx.xx]
  1  www.routerlogin.com [xx.xx.xx.xx]
  2  telehouse-gw3-msdp.idnet.net [212.69.63.51]
  3  redbus-gw.idnet.net [212.69.63.1]
  4  www.idnet.net [212.69.36.10]

Computing statistics for 100 seconds...
            Source to Here   This Node/Link
Hop  RTT    Lost/Sent = Pct  Lost/Sent = Pct  Address
  0                                           BEANDESK [xx.xx.xx.xx]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  1    0ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  www.routerlogin.com [xx.xx.xx.xx]

                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  2   41ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  telehouse-gw3-msdp.idnet.net [212.69.63.51]
                                0/ 100 =  0%   |
  3   43ms     0/ 100 =  0%     0/ 100 =  0%  redbus-gw.idnet.net [212.69.63.1]
                                1/ 100 =  1%   |
  4   42ms     1/ 100 =  1%     0/ 100 =  0%  www.idnet.net [212.69.36.10]

Trace complete.

Sadly, the formatting leaves a bit to be desired!

Apologies if you all knew about this one, but I hadn't stumbled across it before, so thought I would share...

[Lance]

Thats a new one on me as well, Rik. Thanks!

[Rik]

Shame the screen doesn't line up rather better, but a useful one for the arsenal (unless you're s spurs fan, of course )

I found it here. There's some other interesting stuff on the site.

[Lance]

Thanks for the link

[CaptainSlow]

Thanks for that, a handy item at times I'd imagine!

[Adam]

An interesting one for Linux is tracepath, it doesn't appear to do the same thing as the Windows pingpath command but it does provide some useful information.