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Old 06-01-2006
Ping Script

hello, I am looking to make a script that will ping a remote ip address. Upon completion of the ping I want the program to either ping again if the # of packets transmitted is equal to the number of packets received or exit if the two values are unequal and information was lost. I am not sure if I should go about this program with a shell script or a C script or any other alternative. In either case would someone be able to point me in the correct direction?
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Old 06-01-2006
Aside from using ip traffic for not much return, what are you attempting?
Making sure that a node is up?

I'll bet if you explain what you want to acheive, some here already knows how to do it, rather than helping you do something that seems unusual.
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Old 06-01-2006
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Upon completion of the ping I want the program to either ping again if the # of packets transmitted is equal to the number of packets received or exit if the two values are unequal and information was lost.
why is that for a successful ping you want to re-instantiate the ping on the remote-ip again???
if that was a unsuccessful receive for the ICMP packets delivered i could see some point in pinging again !!!
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Old 06-02-2006
That's why I asked for 'what' the OP is trying to accomplish, not how he wants to do it.
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