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Originally Posted by tickyul
Uh..........try reading the start of the thread.
Here is a link to the Ping and Tracert commands, you might find them interesting:
Ping and Traceroute
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Your OP never explained WHY you were trying to ping ebay. That's what he was asking. Knowing why you're doing something helps people to help you.
You got your answer. If you just don't understand it, then say so - in a nicer way - and you might get a more thorough technical explanation.
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Originally Posted by tickyul
Ping and Traceroute are two programs that can be used to send packets of information to remote computers for the purpose of retrieving information
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So is ftp, Firefox, Thunderbird, Outlook, any IM client, gopher, finger, telnet, ssh, snmpwalk, etc... Actually,
every network based application is "used to send packets of information to remote computers for the purpose of retrieving information." That's kind of the point of a network...