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Mar 022008
 

Audible ping

Answer:

Sometimes you want to listen your machine pinging another machine (remote machine), especially you want to know when the remote machine is alive when you have issued a reboot.

It is easy with the ping command.

# ping -a google.com

Open your speaker to listen.

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