How to ping a Linux server?

2 years ago
William Carter
2 minutes

To execute the ping command on a Linux server, follow these steps:

  1. Open the terminal and log in to the command line interface of the Linux server.
  2. Use the command below to execute ping: 
ping <目标IP地址或域名>

Please replace with the IP address or domain name of the server you want to ping.

  1. Pressing the Enter key to initiate the execution of the ping command.
  2. The ping command sends ICMP echo requests to the target server and waits for the server to send back an echo response. You will see an output similar to the following:
PING <目标IP地址或域名> (<目标IP地址>) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from <目标IP地址>: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.055 ms
64 bytes from <目标IP地址>: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.062 ms
64 bytes from <目标IP地址>: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms
...

This indicates that the target server has responded to the ping request and displayed the round-trip time for each echo packet.

  1. You can press the Ctrl+C shortcut to stop the execution of the ping command.

Please note that some Linux distributions may require administrator or superuser privileges to execute the ping command. In such cases, you can use the sudo prefix before running the ping command to obtain administrative privileges.

Some Linux distributions may not come with the ping tool pre-installed. You can use the following command to install the ping tool.

sudo apt-get install iputils-ping

Please note that this command is intended for Debian-based distributions, such as Ubuntu. For other distributions, please use the appropriate package manager to install the ping tool.

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