WSPING32 - Copyright 1994-1996 Ipswitch, Inc. All rights reserved. This program is not shareware. This program may be used without fee by educational staff, faculty and students; United States Government users; and non-commercial home use. All other uses and all redistribution requests MUST be coordinated with Ipswitch, Inc. Look at http://www.ipswitch.com or send e-mail to or call (617)-676-5700. Please refer to the ABOUT box in the program for more information and the actual license. Description This is a network diagnostic tool that implements PING, Traceroute and DNS lookups specifically for Windows 95 and Windows NT. It may work on Windows for Workgroups (Window 3.x) with some network stacks when Win32s is installed. PING is a network diagnostic tool that verifies connectivity to a particular system on the network. PING sends an ICMP "echo request" in the form of a data packet to a remote host, and displays the results for each "echo reply". In essence, PING asks, "Hello host, are you there?", and waits for a response. PING sends one packet per second and prints one line of output for every response received. When PING terminates, it displays a brief summary of round-trip times and packet loss statistics. When using PING to isolate hardware or software problems, first PING "127.0.0.1" (or "localhost") to verify that the local network is up and running. Then, ping hosts and gateways further and further away. TRACEROUTE is a network diagnostic tool that lets you trace and view the actual route an IP packet follows to an Internet host. It also displays response times (in milliseconds), which identify the amount of time it takes the packet to travel the route. Response times will vary depending on network load. TRACEROUTE is useful for finding potential trouble spots on large and complex networks that are connected together with routers. LOOKUP is a tool that lets you query Internet domain servers for information about hosts and name servers. You can use LOOKUP to query the name server for information about various hosts and domains. Changes 96.10.11 Changed design of main window. Fixed tabbing in main window. Fixed DNS lookup for type ALL. Fixed ping sequence numbers on Microsoft stacks. Fixed ping and traceroute on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Added save of last 10 names entered. Added license and ordering information. Added help dialog. Testing This version of this program has ONLY been tested on: Windows NT 3.51 with Microsoft TCP/IP Windows NT 4.0 with Microsoft TCP/IP Windows 95 with Microsoft TCP/IP