The K Desktop Environment

Chapter 2. The Ping tab

2.1. What is it?

The ping(8) command sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts to check for network reachability. A response from a host (or anything that have an IP address) says that this host is running at least a TCP/IP network stack and indicates that the network route to go to this host is opened. The ping tab allows the execution of the ping(8) command.