How to ping an ip address with vista

To have your PC ping itself, type ping To ping an IP, device or website, follow the simple instructions below.

A black window will open. This is the command prompt. This is a quick step-by-step guide to performing a ping command.

Pings are useful for telling you the speed, strength, distance and availability of a connection, either in your own network or over the internet. When running Windows, click on the start button or the Windows icon , usually located at the bottom left of the screen. On the start menu, choose 'All Apps' from the list of options. Then click on the option labelled 'Windows System'. This result indicates the computer has no issues communicating across the network. If you had errors during the ping, it would look similar to one of the following examples.

With the first example of a bad response, the "fakeasdf. In the second example, ping was able to find an address of " Once you cancel, the statistics are shown. As seen in the above statistics, three packets were sent, and three were received, which indicates the computer has no network communication problem.

Similar to traceroute6 tool, in Windows machines tracert -6 command can be used to trace the routes of IPV6 packets. Same as the above commands, there are more commands that can be used to analyze IPV6 packets. Please leave your suggestions and comments. Ifconfig is already obsolete. Please use ip instead. Yes, ifconfig is deprecated to support iproute2 on Linux. Same for arp and route commands are also deprecated. Regarding ping6 I am not sure. Thanks for the comments.

So how do you ping an IPv6 IP from windows?! You've answered everything but that. You can use the command 'ping -6 [IPV6 address]'.