Ping

Description

This indicates an attempt to use the Ping utility.
Ping is a network utility tool that uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) to test if a host is reachable and to measure the length of time for the packets to be sent to and received from the host.

Affected Products

Ping

Impact

Unexpected network communication

Technology

Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device

Behavior

• Reasonable

References

• http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html