On Apr 8, 2004, at 11:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 09:37 AM -0700 04/08/2004, Kathi Anderson wrote:When I think I must have a really stupid question, I remind myself that
there most likely a number of others that have the same question they would
like to ask, but are reluctant to do so. So here goes:
Just how does one go about "pinging," a computer?
Depends on the OS. From Mac OS X's terminal window, you can just use a ping command. From the classic Mac OS, you have to use a utility that supports such.
My two fav pingers are IPNetMonitor (http://www.sustworks.com/) and WhatRoute (http://www.whatroute.net/). The former is shareware, the latter is freeware and was included on later Mac OS CDs.
There's also OTTool from Neon: <http://www.neon.com/other_mac.html#ottool> which I like a lot, and is also free and runs in OS 8-9 or OS X. Ping, DNS lookups (including ranges), traceroute and other utilities all in one.
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