Edit Windows Firewall

As mentioned earlier, PING is disabled by default. So what we will do is edit the Windows Firewall inbound rules. With this intention, please type defender in the search bar. After the results appear, please enter in Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security:

Once the Windows Firewall is deployed, please select the inbound rules. Then scroll down to locate File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4-In).

Then, double-click on it to enter the properties. In this section, it is necessary to modify two aspects. First, check the box to Enable the rule. Additionally, modify the action to Allow connections. Then, press Apply and OK to set the rule.

Back to the previous screen, you can see the rule with a check sign. This means that it is enabled correctly.

Testing PING

Once the previous modifications have been made, it is time to try PING. With this intention, please open a command prompt. Next, test the connection with an IP address or domain name. In this case, we will use www.osradar.com. Please enter the following command and press enter:

ping www.osradar.com

Conclusion

Finally, we have seen how to enable PING in Windows Server 2019. It is a popular diagnostic utility in the computer network environment. In addition, it is widely used to measure latency. This is all for now before I say goodbye I invite you to review our post on EasyPHP in Windows 10.

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Additionally, it can be used for troubleshooting to test connectivity and determine response time. However, most administrator users consider the ICMP protocol to be potentially unsafe and prefer to block these calls. For this reason, the Windows 10 firewall by default has a security policy of blocking such requests. This is easy to check, trying to ping our computer from a remote machine, we’ll see the following message:

However, it is not advisable to completely block these calls. Therefore, here I show you how to enable and disable ping in Windows 10.

Enable ping in windows 10. Command line mode.

The first thing we need to do is to open a Command Prompt as administrators. Once there, we have to create a rule for IPv4 addressing and another for IPv6. All right, to create the first rule you just have to type the following command in the console:

netsh advFirewall Firewall add rule name="OSRadar Rule PING IPv4" protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow 

If everything was done correctly, the CMD should look like this:

Next, we will create the rule for IPv6 addressing:

netsh advFirewall Firewall add rule name="OSRadar Rule PING IPv6" protocol=icmpv6:8,any dir=in action=allow 

We have correctly applied the rules for the ping command. We can check that it works, pinging from a remote computer:

To disable the exception for IPv4 addresses, just type the following commanding in the CMD:

netsh advFirewall Firewall add rule name="OSRadar Rule PING IPv4" protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=block 

In the case of IPv6 addressing, the command to write will be the following:

netsh advFirewall Firewall add rule name="OSRadar Rule IPv6" protocol=icmpv6:8,any dir=in action=block 

Please note that you can choose the name you want for the rules. If you want to see every rule in the system in detail, just write the following in the terminal:

 netsh advFirewall Firewall show rule name=all 

Enable ping in windows 10. Graphic mode.

It is also possible to create specific rules to enable and disable ping by entering the Windows 10 Firewall Advanced Security Configuration. With this intention, just type Firewall on the search bar:

Immediately the Firewall options will be displayed. As we did before, we have to create a rule for IPv4 and another for IPv6.

So first, select the Inbound Rules option in the left column and right-click the mouse to create a New Rule:

A rule creation wizard will start. Please select Custom in the rule type and press Next to continue.

On the next screen select All programs and press Next to continue.

In the protocol type, select ICMPv4 and then click on customize.

In the pop-up screen activate the Specific ICMP types box and navigate until you activate the Echo Request option. Press accept to apply the changes.

Next, we can define which specific IP addresses this rule will apply, on the contrary, we will allow the requests of all the addresses. Once the selection is made, press next to continue.

Now select Allow the connection and press Next to continue

In the following screen, we have to select when the new rule will be applied. Please check the 3 available options and press next to continue.

Finally, we only have to assign a name to the rule and press Finish to close the wizard.

Finally, we can see the rule created correctly. To create the exception for IPv6 addressing, we have to repeat the same process but in the protocol and ports window, we have to select ICMPv6.

To disable any of the created rules, just right-click on it and choose Disable Rule.

Conclusion

Finally, we have seen how to enable and disable ping in Windows 10. This will allow us to manage and administer our connections using this command. Finally, we have seen how to enable and disable ping in Windows 10. This will allow us to manage and administer our connections using this command. Consequently, we will be able to monitor the levels of security and data protection on our computers. This is all for now, before saying goodbye I invite you to review our tutorial on bash in Windows 10

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Today, let’s check out all the usage of “ping” tool on Linux.

Basic “ping”

At first, let’s check out the basics of “ping”. Fire up a terminal and run the following command –

ping osradar.com

Here, we pinged OS Radar with 64 bytes of data. Note that the process is infinite, so you have to manually terminate the process by pressing “Ctrl + C”.

You can identify the version of the “ping” tool by running the following command –

ping -V

Advanced usage

Generally, “ping” continues pinging infinitely. However, you have the power to change the time it pings the target domain. Run the following command –

ping -c 3 osradar.com

Here, “ping” will ping OS Radar for 10 times.

Do you need a different data packet size? Then run the following command –

ping -s 100 osradar.com

This command will ping OS Radar with 108 bytes. That’s suffice to say that if you define X bytes, “ping” will ping with (X + 8) bytes.

Time is also a factor here. All the above examples were pinging continuously, infinitely. If you want to run “ping” for a certain period, then run this command –

ping -w 5 osradar.com

Here, “ping” will continue pinging OS Radar for 10 seconds. Need to put interval between each ping? Then run this command –

ping -i 2 osradar.com

This command tells “ping” to ping OS Radar for Note that by default, “ping” pings the target domain every 1 second.

Need a noise every time “ping” pings successfully? Use this command –

ping -a osradar.com

In most of the cases, we don’t care about the continuous results of the ping. The final result is the most important part of all. If you want to run “ping” in a silent mode, then run the following command –

ping -q -c 10 osradar.com

Make sure to run this command with “-c” parameter, otherwise it won’t show any result in the future.

Happy pinging!

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