[gui-talk] Pinging A Computer

[Thomas Stivers]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 02:36:46 PM -0500, Loy wrote:
> Could you tell me what pinging means?

Pinging a computer is just a way to tell if that computer can be reached
over the network or internet from your computer. For example you might
ping a router on a home network if you have one by using "ping
192.168.0.1" or you might ping a site on the internet to make sure you
are connected with "ping www.google.com".

HTH

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org