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Ping operates by means of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets. Pinging involves sending an ICMP echo request to the target host and waiting for an ICMP echo reply. The program reports errors, packet loss , and a statistical summary of the results, typically including the minimum, maximum, the mean round-trip times, and standard ...
Speedtest.net, also known as Speedtest by Ookla, is a web service that provides free analysis of Internet access performance metrics, such as connection data rate and latency. It is the flagship product of Ookla, a web testing and network diagnostics company founded in 2006, and based in Seattle, Washington , United States .
This is a list of countries by Internet connection speed for average and median data transfer rates for Internet access by end-users. The difference between average and median speeds is the way individual measurements are aggregated.
RTT is a measure of the amount of time taken for an entire message to be sent to a destination and for a reply to be sent back to the sender. The time to send the message to the destination in its entirety is known as the network latency, and thus RTT is twice the latency in the network plus a processing delay at the destination.
A ping of death is a type of attack on a computer system that involves sending a malformed or otherwise malicious ping to a computer. [1] In this attack, a host sends hundreds of ping requests with a packet size that is large or illegal to another host to try to take it offline or to keep it preoccupied responding with ICMP Echo replies. [2]
If the network operator made the erroneous assumption that it is enough to only block normal transport protocols like TCP and UDP, but not core protocols such as ICMP, then it is sometimes possible to use an ICMP-tunnel to access the internet despite not having been authorized for network access.
Ping, the alias of Hua Mulan in the animated film Mulan; Ping the Elastic Man, a comic strip character introduced in The Beano in 1938; Professor Ping, a character in the film Barbarella; Ping, a character in Carole Wilkinson's novel Dragonkeeper; Po (Kung Fu Panda) or Ping Xiao Po, the protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda franchise Mr. Ping, Po's ...
A ping flood is a simple denial-of-service attack where the attacker overwhelms the victim with ICMP "echo request" packets. [1] This is most effective by using the ...