ICMP Echo Request / Reply (ping) can fail when nothing is wrong because some routers do not allow it. Do a traceroute and find out how far the ping is actually making it. Focus your attention on the last hop that responds and then work your way outward. If necessary, and you have admin access to the various routers turn ICMP Echo Request / Reply on (temporarily, if so limited by policy) and see what happens. Connect to the routers along the way and check the fail logs to see if your traffic is even making it in.
Since ping is not always allowed, you may need to troubleshoot with real application traffic, be it HTTP, FTP, SMTP, or whatever. You still need to get access to the routers' logs.
Simply type 'ping', leave a space, and then type the website you wish to retrieve the IP address of. For example, a ping request for WikiAnswers.com would look like this:c:/ ping wikianswers.comThis should work with any website.
Ping request
request timed out.
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Request and Reply
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Running the ping command with -n "count" is the number of echo request to send.
The obvious answer is that the remote router is switched off !
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If ping is reporting large numbers on a ping request it generally means the network is congested or there are bad connections between some of the routers in the route.
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ping stands for packet internet groper. it is use for echo request and reply message to check the physical and logical connectivity of a machine on an internetwork