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Ping Instructions
For: Mepislovers by: je.saist This guide walks through using the ping function built into Mepis Linux in order to troubleshoot potential problems with network connections. For those unfamiliar with the ping command, think of the game of ping pong. If you haven't played ping pong, think of the The Incredible Mr. Limpet. Same concept. You send a ball or a signal out and wait to see if it comes back. Pings that don't come back are said to have dropped, and the event is referred to as packetloss. High amounts of packet loss will mean a slow or unresponsive internet connection. 1: To start with, lets open up the Konsole in the system menu.  2: Konsole up? Good.  3: type in, or copy and paste the command : ping -c 5 www.mepislovers.org The -c 5 sets a limit on the number of pings that are sent out. If no number is set, the pings will continue on and on and on. Not exactly something that we would want to have happen.  4: The screen below shows the results of the ping command while it is working.  5: When ping finishes the results are tallyed up. As shown below while I'm not currently loosing packets, my transmission times are a little high.  6: Okay, lets go put these someplace where they'll matter. I've used my mouse to select the test results.  7: Then with a right click on the mouse and a left click on Copy...  8: We are now ready to head over to the forums and post these into a reply  9: Then post for the networking guru's to look at.  10: If packet loss is really bad and you can't report it because you can't get to the site... Just open up your favorite text editor (Kwrite shown)  11: Paste the contents of the test into the text editor...  12: Now save for a later date.  Take me back to the Guides. |