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A. Daniel King_1
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‎07-18-2002 01:06 PM

‎07-18-2002 01:06 PM

Re: scripting and ping

I find that a single ping is quite unreliable. I use three or more packets with something along the lines of:

/usr/sbin/ping x.x.x.x -n 3 | /usr/bin/grep "100% packet loss" > /dev/null && echo Down! || echo Up!
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T G Manikandan
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‎07-18-2002 01:40 PM

‎07-18-2002 01:40 PM

Re: scripting and ping

Also check this link

http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/0,,0xe7627d4cf554d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html


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