/python-ping

Primary LanguagePython

Ping in Python

Description

A simple version of the ping utility written in Python. It sends five ICMP echo requests to a given hostname and calculates the min, max, and average RTTs.

Usage (requires superuser privileges):

sudo python ping.py hostname
or
sudo ./ping.py hostname

Notes

  • Requires superuser privileges to send the ICMP packets
  • The code is written to work with Python 2.4