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I want to write a C or C++ program, that given an IP address, Pings it and then performs further action based on whether the Ping was successful or not. How to do this?

Vishal
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  • Depending on what you want to accomplish, the nmap sources may be interesting to look through. – dascandy Jul 14 '11 at 17:40
  • Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8189935/is-there-any-way-to-ping-a-specific-ip-address-with-c/23071412#23071412 – Leo Rohr Jul 16 '15 at 22:23

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Have a blast at The Ping Page, which has a link to full source on the original Unix ping(8).

Nikolai Fetissov
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  • Thanks! It has a lot of legacy code that makes it not work properly with modern C compilers. Is there an updated source code for ping? – perrocallcenter Jan 10 '23 at 04:24
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EDIT I saw after I posted, you are on Ubuntu. However someone searching this question may still find these links helpful for Windows.

Ping: Raw Sockets Method: http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/examples/rawping.html

Implementing Internet Pings Using Icmp.dll: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;170591

IcmpSendEcho Function: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366050%28VS.85%29.aspx

Ping for Windows: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/winping.aspx

T.T.T.
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This post is old but I think the following link will help future people lookign for a good explanation on how to create a Ping request.

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
int x = system("ping -c1 -s1 8.8.8.8  > /dev/null 2>&1");
if (x==0){
    cout<<"success";
}else{
    cout<<"failed";
}

replace 8.8.8.8 from your IP Address

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