Ping is not working or Ping request timed out In the below example, IP address 192.168.1.65 is available in network and IP address 192.168.1.111 is not available in network. If Particular IP is not available in the network then you receive a reply as Request timed out or Destination host unreachable which is shown below. When you ping particular IP address and if the particular IP address is available in the network then you receive bytes, time and TTL in reply shown below. Example of Ping:īefore we start enabling ping functionality or Echo Request, we will see an example of ping for better understanding. So here we will see how to enable ping functionality. So sometimes what happens even though a particular computer or IP address is available in the network but if ping functionality of that particular computer is disabled then you will get a reply as ping request timed out for the ping request and you would say, the particular computer is not available in the network. On the windows system or computer, the user has provision to enable or disable ping functionality. When we Ping to the particular computer using it’s IP address, If we get a reply from a particular IP address then we say a particular IP address is available else we say Particular IP address is not available in network. Ping is used to checking whether the particular IP address is available in network or not.

In any computer network i.e local network or internet, a particular device or computer is identified by respective IP addresses and not by their names. Four reasons why ping is not working and enabling ping functionality.

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