 About rPing
:- rPing
is a Freeware Ping, Lookup and Traceroute utility for
Win95, Win98 & NT. It is multithreaded, easy-to-use
user interface and fully configurable by letting the user
to customize settings such as packet size, number of
packet sent, packet content, interval time, data
fragment, result logging, displays all IP addresses and
aliases on Lookup and etc.
System Requirements :- Windows 9x/NT and Microsoft
TCP/IP protocol.
rPing
has been tested on :- Win9x/NT - Winsocks v. 1.1 &
v2.0, WSock32 v. 2.2
Version History
v. 2.0 Build 1.34 - August 22, 1998
- Now Install/Unstall
version added.
- Added rPing log file Edit from the menu.
- Add Network Adapter Address [MAC] No. at Local Info
Section.
- Option Section changed to menu type form.
- Separate Section for local Info.
- Added Progress Bar in every section.
- Removed All Blocking Call so that it will be 100%
Mulititreaded.
- Added Local Info Section.
v. 2.0
Build 1.33 - August 5th, 1998
- Completely rewritten
- distribution size reduced from 980k to 250k.
- Faster and more efficient.
- Multithreaded
- Support Win 95, Win 98 and NT.
- Storable Host Entry and auto host deletion after 9th
entries.
- Host and time/date are shown for each operation so that
log results will reflect
- Updated email address and web site URL.
- And many more features.
<FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS>
<What is a Hostname/IPAddress?> HostName is the unique name of a
host. For example, webattack.com is the host name of a
computer whose IP address is 207.82.167.37. IPAddress is
the 32-bit address that identifies a systems location on
the Internet. Every computer (node) has an IP address. It
is usually represented in Internet dot notation, which
consists of four numbers from 1 to 255 separated by dots
(.), for example, 156.20.50.16.
<What is a Local Info?> The name of a network information
tool that returns information about local host and
currently active version of the Windows Sockets.
<What
is a Ping?>Ping is
used to test whether the remote host can be reached from
your computer. This simple function is extremely useful
for testing network connection, by transmitting a request
message to a specified system
and receiving a reply, you will know if the network
hardware is functioning on both computers or the link
between the two systems is unbroken and etc.
<What
is No of packet?>Causes
the Ping to transmit the number of echo request messages
specified by the packet variable.
<What
is Timeout?>Specifies
the the time interval (in milliseconds) that the Ping
should wait to receive a reply from the destination.
<What
is Packet Size?>The
length in bytes of each packet sent by the ping.
<What
is Packet Content to Sent?>Allow user to set the packet content where
content edit box automatically adjusts to reflect the
packet data size.
<What
is Show All Details?>This allows user to look at the data sent to
and returned by the host.
<What
is Statistics?>This
will display a brief summary of round-trip times and
packet loss statistics. E.g.. Minimum, Maximum and
Average.
<What
is Don't Fragment Data?>This option allow ping to keep packets
together, provided the packet is equal to or smaller than
the Maximum Transmission Units (MTU) specified for your
machine. This is usually 1500 bytes. If the packet is
bigger than this, you will get an error message.
<What
is a (Round Trip Time) RTT?> A measure of delay between two hosts. The
round trip time consists of the total time taken for a
single packet or datagram to leave one machine, reach the
other, and return.
<What
is a (Time To Live) TTL?> A technique used in best-effort delivery
systems to avoid endlessly looping packets. For example,
each IP datagram is assigned an integer time to live when
it is created. IP gateways decrement the time to live
field when they process a datagram and discard the
datagram if the time to live counter reaches zero.
<What
is a Trace?> Traceroute
is useful for finding potential trouble spots on large
and complex networks connected together with routers.
Traceroute traces and displays the actual route an IP
packet follows to an Internet host. You can use
Traceroute to determine if a router is down in the path
between your computer and a specified remote host.
Traceroute also displays response times (in
milliseconds), which identify the amount of time it takes
the packet to travel the route. Response times vary
depending on network load.
<What
is a No. of Hop?> A
measure of distance between two points in an internet. A
hop count of n means that n gateways separate the source
and destination.
<What
is a Lookup? >LookUp
will attempt to find it's DNS name via given host's IP
address or vice versa and returns the official host name,
IP address and alias (if it exist) from the DNS.
<What
is Logging?>If you
choose to use, this option will log all data into file as
"rPing.txt", this file will be placed in the
same directory as rPing.exe.
<What
is Beep On Finish?>This
option will active beep sound once at function on rPing
completed.
<DISCLAIMER>This program is freeware and is
distributed "as is". No guarantee is made about
the program - use at your own risk. The author will not
be liable for any actual or claimed damages arising from
its use.
<RESTRICTIONS>Anybody can use rPing - it's
freeware. All I ask is that you don't decompile,
disassemble, reverse-engineer, etc., or sell it. The
intellectual and property rights to rPing remain in
Ramakrishnan G.
<THANKS>Thanks to Tom Trivett who was the main person providing
undying support for the rPing development, also to Neol , Sothis and Jagdish for beta testing. And to my new team,
programmer and graphics artist from SoftArc and
Intelliweb, mainly Kumar,
Sree, Manx, Faan. Also thanks to Softarc Sdn. Bhd. and Intelliweb Sdn. Bhd., for allowing me to work on this
project while on their payroll :).
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