The arping command can ping local systems to find out whether they are responsive, and with the help of scripts, can ping specific IP-address ranges. The arping command is one of the lesser known ...

It's often useful to gain a quick measure of a network's "real-world" performance. Pinging is a technique in which you send a predetermined amount of data to a specific IP address on your own network ...

Modern network connectivity is light years ahead of what it once was. Even though it's much more reliable than it was in the 1990s, issues still come up -- which is why I'm glad that Linux includes a ...