What is Ping

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What is Ping?

• Ping sends a packet to a remote or local host,
  requesting an echo. If the echo is returned, the
  site is up.
• If the echo is not returned, it can indicate that
  either the site is down or there is some sort of
  network trouble along the way, although most of
  today's web site are behind a Firewall , which
  prevents the ping from returning.
• How to perform a Ping?
• go to Start menu, then Run, then click Command,
  in the DOS mode type in ping ltweb site address
  gt then hit Enter Key.