Where do i find a tutorial for Ping

Hi i need to learn to programme something that ping's a network and for the time being in my Beta stage just any web site on the internet. Where would I find a tutorial on that please?
Thanks. (its for work)

Check out the unix socket programing faq here

I have also been working on a version of ping that can be found here

I would suggest learning about ICMP packets and such as this is what you will be working with for anything such as ping or traceroute.

Hope that this helps.

There have also been many others that have asked about socket programming before and a quick search on the topic should also give you some ideas.

Later,

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I have also been working on a version of ping that can be found here -
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The file that I downloaded from there does not unzip properly it gives me an error.