How to check if ping responded or not in a batch file

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The question was to see if ping responded which this script does.

However this will not work if you get the Host Unreachable message as this returns ERRORLEVEL 0 and passes the check for Received = 1 used in this script, returning Link is UP from the script. Host Unreachable occurs when ping was delivered to target notwork but remote host cannot be found.

If I recall the correct way to check if ping was successful is to look for the string ‘TTL’ using Find.

@echo off
cls
set ip=%1
ping -n 1 %ip% | find "TTL"
if not errorlevel 1 set error=win
if errorlevel 1 set error=fail
cls
echo Result: %error%

This wont work with IPv6 networks because ping will not list TTL when receiving reply from IPv6 address.

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