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07-09-2011, 12:26 PM
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Registered: Jun 2011
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pinging
I was running my ubuntu and I was pinging google.com and the packets just kept coming! How do I stop that?
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07-09-2011, 12:27 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Roodepoort, South Africa
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04, Antix19.3
Posts: 3,794
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<ctrl>C
And read man ping, specifically the the -c option 
Last edited by Wim Sturkenboom; 07-09-2011 at 12:29 PM.
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07-09-2011, 12:29 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2010
Location: Internet
Distribution: Linux Mint, SLES, CentOS, Red Hat
Posts: 2,385
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@ Reply
Hi there,
Welcome to LQ!!!
Just hit ctrl+c and that will stop it.
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07-09-2011, 02:06 PM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Kentucky
Distribution: Debian
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As earlier alluded to, running ping with no arguments just makes it keep going. If you only want to ping a target a certain number of times, let's say 4, you use the -c option. Example:
Code:
ping -c 4 google.com
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