I need to ping Google to see my Internet status. In Windows we use:
ping -t [websitename]
In the run menu. How do I do this on Ubuntu?
As far as I know, on Windows by default ping somesite.net
will send 4 ICMP echo request packets to the somesite.net
. As you have used the -t
option i.e. ping -t somesite.net
, this will run indefinitely on Windows i.e. it will keep on sending ICMP echo request packets until you quit it yourself.
On Ubuntu ping soemsite.net
will run indefinitely i.e. it is same as ping -t soemsite.net
for Windows. On the other hand if you want to send a certain number of packets you can use the -c
option. E.g., to send 4 ICMP echo request packets you need to open the Terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and run:
ping -c 4 somesite.net
Also any packet ping
sends is highly configurable on Ubuntu. Check man ping
to get more ideas.
ping somesite.net
on Windows would always only make it ping 10 times or so. I just did that on Ubuntu and like you said it's doing it indefinitely. How do I stop it? I'm worried that if I just exit out it could screw something up.
Nov 18, 2015 at 17:36
-c
option e.g. ping -c 10 somesite.net
will send 10 packets.... On the other hand, you can terminate an ongoing ping
operation by pressing Ctrl + c
on the keyboard
Please open a terminal Ctrl+Alt+T. Enter:
ping -c3 www.google.com
If you get ping returns, then you are connected. For example:
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 20.697/21.033/21.260/0.294 ms
chili555's answer already covers the question, however if you're trying to debug a connection issue traceroute
is way more verbose (you'll have to enable the Universe repository in order to install it):
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install traceroute
Sample output of traceroute askubuntu.com
on my machine:
ubuntu@ubuntu ~ % traceroute askubuntu.com
traceroute to askubuntu.com (104.16.17.44), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 2.869 ms 3.661 ms 4.413 ms
2 * * *
3 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) 33.405 ms 35.751 ms 37.452 ms
4 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) 42.541 ms 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) 44.504 ms 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) 50.297 ms
5 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) 53.278 ms 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) 55.500 ms 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) 57.140 ms
6 * 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) 32.867 ms 33.419 ms
7 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) 34.096 ms 35.122 ms 40.241 ms
8 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) 40.910 ms 41.986 ms 45.287 ms
9 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) 46.972 ms 47.290 ms 53.258 ms
10 104.16.17.44 (104.16.17.44) 53.822 ms 31.788 ms 33.164 ms
If you merely wish to test if your connection is working, a simple way is to use fping
with example.com. fping
returns 0 on success; see the manual for details on return codes.
if fping -q example.com
then
# Connection is working.
else
# Connection is not working.
fi
man ping
, of course.