Pings

[shadow_man]

how much bandwidth would something like ping -t google.com take up if i left it on the whole day to see what time my connection has issues? how many mb usage etc - Thanks - J

 

[Kloon]

a ping is 32bytes at a time, you do the math

 

[ubercal]

if my calculations are correct if would be around 1.38MB for a continous ping of 12hrs

 

[Kloon]

Yes, i calculates 2.64mb for 24 hours

 

[NaZKuL]

Yes, i calculates 2.64mb for 24 hours

wow.... I wish i was as clever as you guyz!!!!!

 

[Franna]

Or you can set the ping packet size to the maximum of 65500 bytes:

ping www.google.com -t -l 65500

which will effectively use 5659MB per 24 hours. But the client and host must have enough bandwidth to support this throughput.

 

[Paul_S]

Not sure about the Windows version of ping but with the Linux version you can set an interval in seconds with -i.

This will ping google once per minute and write it to a log file :
ping -i 60 www.google.com > ping.log

 

[krycor]

heh, but thats assuming the server you pinging doesn't just block you.

 

[raZer]

If you ping google for the whole day they'll suspect you of attempting to do a DoS on them and block you.

 

[Paul_S]

If you ping google for the whole day they'll suspect you of attempting to do a DoS on them and block you.

Well I've done it to google for several days on end with a 60 second delay between the pinging and I didn't get blocked.

 

[ghalied]

a single user pinging google all day, all week won't even be noticed.
google = 6 datacentres
100 clusters, 2000 pc per cluster
google search engine facility -estimated at half a million computers
1-2 computers die each day on a large clusters

one user pinging all day all year round, ant bite

It all runs on Linux.............nice