Which Protocols are used for PING

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Okay  I know that the answer to this question is ICMP - all my textbooks are saying so  the Internet is saying so  everyone is saying so    except for my TA  According to this TA ping is used not only with ICMP  but also IP  arp  and some other  So    which are the protocols used for ping  Other than ICMP

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Internet Control Message Protocol  http   en wikipedia org wiki Internet Control Message Protocol  ICMP is built on top of a bunch of other protocols  so in that sense your TA is correct  However  ping itself is ICMP

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The usual command line ping tool uses ICMP Echo  but it s true that other protocols can also be used  and they re useful in debugging different kinds of network problems   I can remember at least arping  for testing ARP requests  and tcping  which tries to establish a TCP connection and immediately closes it  it can be used to check if traffic reaches a certain port on a host  off the top of my head  but I m sure there are others aswell

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ICMP means Internet Control Message Protocol and is always coupled with the IP protocol  There s 2 ICMP variants one for IPv4 and one for IPv6    echo request and echo response are the two operation codes of ICMP used to implement ping   Besides the original ping program  ping might simply mean the action of checking if a remote node is responding  this might be done on several layers in a protocol stack - e g  ARP ping for testing hosts on a local network  The term ping might be used on higher protocol layers and APIs as well  e g  the act of checking if a database is up  done at the database layer protocol   ICMP sits on top of IP  What you have below depends on the network you re on  and are not in themselves relevant to the operation of ping

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Netscantools Pro Ping can do ICMP  UDP  and TCP

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Ping can be used with a variety of protocols  The protocol value can be appletalk  clns  ip  the default   novell  apollo  vines  decnet  or xns  Some protocols require another Cisco router at the remote end to answer ping packets       Cisco field manual  router configuration  By Dave Hucaby  Steve McQuerry  Page 64        For IP  ping uses ICMP type 8 requests and ICMP type 0 replies  The traceroute  by using UDP  command can be used to discover the routers along the path that packets are taking to a destination       Page 63

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