PING stands for Packet INternet Groper.

This is a simple diagnostic tool implemented in both Windows and Linux that enables you the ability to test for basic communication between two network nodes within a LAN or across the WAN/Internet.

The concept is simple – a special packet is sent from a source machine to a destination machine at which the destination machine responds back.
The time it takes for this process to complete helps determine two things:

• Does the destination machine respond?
• How long does it take the destination machine to respond back?

To run this tool is very simple.
Windows

For windows you simply open a command prompt:

Go to Start->run->type CMD->press enter

Within the command prompt you will type:

ping destination-IP -n 10

For example:

ping 192.168.88.132  -n 10

Linux

For Linux open terminal:

root@rb:~# ping -c 10  destination-IP

Within the command prompt you will type:

ping -c 10 destination-IP 

For example:

ping -c 10 192.168.88.132