pinging remote server using a mac

[Guest_imported]

what is the mac equivalent to ping and where do i find it - as i'm trying to help a friend diagnose problems on his connection to his web site.

thanks,

chris

 

[jimbopalmer]

I use Mac TCP Watcher, it is shareware and does Ping, Trace route and DNS Lookup

http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=4191&db=mac

love everyone til they prove otherwise, sadly some prove otherwise SO quickly

 

[PTmon]

Another great program is whatroute. It is freeware and was at least at one point available on Apple's OS 9 cd if you did a custom install.

What's new in this version:

* PING Distribution Graph
* MultiPing - successively ping each hop in a trace
* LAN monitor - port of the Unix tcpdump command
* Address Scan - function for finding all active hosts on a network
* ICMP traceroute probes - maybe useful for getting out through a firewall.

 
Product Description:
Trace Internet Paths
PING Remote Hosts
DNS Query
Finger
Whois
TELNET Server

Best of luck,
PT

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