ping command

Jimathy · 10 Mar 2006 at 11:57

i need to add a ping command to a computers startup file to wake up a vpn connection between two networks.

tried creating a batch and a command file with 'ping 192.168.16.2' in them but thats doesn't work.

any ideas?

cheers

NathanE · 10 Mar 2006 at 12:13

What doesn't work about it? :confused:

Baz · 10 Mar 2006 at 12:26

You would need to put

ping.exe 192.168.16.2

not ping 192.168.16.2

nade · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:16

I'd had to do something similar for management folk using laptops at home via a VPN.

But basically they have to connect to the vpn, then i used a batch file with "ping x.x.x.x -t".

The -t sets the ping to repeat. I found that keeps their vpn connection alive.

I don't know of any way to "wakeup" a vpn connection.

Otacon · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:20

Baz said:
You would need to put

ping.exe 192.168.16.2

not ping 192.168.16.2

Why?

Enfield · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:31

Maybe it's trying to ping before it's connected to the network or something...

You're best of asking in the networks section.

Whitewater · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:54

Jimathy said:
i need to add a ping command to a computers startup file to wake up a vpn connection between two networks.

tried creating a batch and a command file with 'ping 192.168.16.2' in them but thats doesn't work.

any ideas?

cheers

In what sense are you waking it up? You won't be able to ping a network address until the PC's connected to the same network, in this case via VPN.

Jimathy · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:59

The VPN is between two netgear DG834's, timeout is set to 10hrs and the ike keepalive is set to ping between a couple of network printers.

Its just that the netgears seem to be really flakey where reconnecting the vpn after the timeout period is concerned. sometimes its stays up for days and other times you have to smack it with a hammer to get it reconnected.

ping.exe was the answer i was looking for cheers Baz.

i'll take this to networks.

Baz · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:15

Otacon said:
Why?

Try it, if you just put ping x.x.x.x in a batch file it just prints 'ping x.x.x.x' over and over again....

Trigger · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:24

Baz said:
Try it, if you just put ping x.x.x.x in a batch file it just prints 'ping x.x.x.x' over and over again....

That's absolute BS- I've just tried it and it works fine for me

Look

Mr Blonde · 11 Mar 2006 at 03:26

Just for the young ones...

If you enter "path" in your Command Prompt you'll see the folders that will be searched through to find your ping.exe. It should be in your c:\windows\system32 folder but your environment variables may not point to this folder so will never be searched and therefore will not run it.

Trigger · 11 Mar 2006 at 08:31

Mr Blonde said:
Just for the young ones...

If you enter "path" in your Command Prompt you'll see the folders that will be searched through to find your ping.exe. It should be in your c:\windows\system32 folder but your environment variables may not point to this folder so will never be searched and therefore will not run it.

That's got nothing to do with what he said- he said you must type 'ping.exe' instead of 'ping' when you don't need to

Go and take yourself off to GD and join the OCC

Mr Blonde · 11 Mar 2006 at 12:08

Trigger said:
That's got nothing to do with what he said- he said you must type 'ping.exe' instead of 'ping' when you don't need to Go and take yourself off to GD and join the OCC

In retrospect I wish I'd gone straight to bed after the party last night

/Goes hunting for more Nurofen..