What Windows command confirms that computers yours and desti

Solution

Hi,

A network is a system of interconnected computers.

To test whether any of the 2 systems can communicate with each other, we use something called as ping (not necessarily windows or mac os or any linux based os).

Pinging a computer will send test packets (some random bytes of data) from your computer to destination computer and see if the response comes back or not and also gives you the time taken to get the data back, packet/data loss during communication, etc.

The steps:

1) Open command prompt (Press Win+R then type cmd in the box which appears) in both machine 1 and 2 (destination and source machines)

Getting the destination machine ip address

2) Once the command prompt window appears type \"ipconfig\" in the command line and note down the IP address of the machine as specified (IPV4 address)

Pinging from the source machine to destination machine

3) Once the command prompt window appears in source machine, type \"ping ipaddressofothermachine\"

eg: ping 8.8.8.8

Here, 8.8.8.8 is the IP address of the Google DNS server and you can replace it by the ip address you got in step 2

If you get reply from other machine, you will see the message in the command prompt.

To summarize, ping is the command used in windows to test network interconnectivity between systems