C#

PingReply reply = pingSender.Send(args[0], timeout, buffer, options);

PingReply reply = pingSender.Send(host, timeout, buffer, options);

// args[0] can be an IPaddress or host name.

// Command line arguments can be an IPaddress or host name to ping.

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;


namespace Examples.System.Net.NetworkInformation.PingTest
{
    public class PingExample
    {
        // args[0] can be an IPaddress or host name.

      
                  
        public static void Main(string [] args)
        {
            
            Ping pingSender = new Ping();
            PingOptions options = new PingOptions();



            // Use the default Ttl value which is 128,
            // but change the fragmentation behavior.
            options.DontFragment = true;

            // Create a buffer of 32 bytes of data to be transmitted.
            string data = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa";
            byte[] buffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data);
            int timeout = 120;

            string[] arr = new string[] { "server1", "server2", "server3" }; // server names you want to ping

            foreach (string i in arr)

            {
               int pingloop = 0;
               Console.WriteLine(i);

               do
               {

                   PingReply reply = pingSender.Send(i, timeout, buffer, options);
                   if (reply.Status == IPStatus.Success)
                   {
                       Console.WriteLine("Reply from {0}", reply.Address.ToString() + ": bytes=" + reply.Buffer.Length + " time=" + reply.RoundtripTime + "ms" + " TTL=" + reply.Options.Ttl);
                       pingloop = pingloop +1;
                       //Console.WriteLine("Bytes {0}", reply.Buffer.Length);
                       //Console.WriteLine("RoundTrip time: {0}", reply.RoundtripTime);
                       //Console.WriteLine("Time to live: {0}", reply.Options.Ttl);
                       //Console.WriteLine("Don't fragment: {0}", reply.Options.DontFragment);
                       
                   }
               }

               while (pingloop < 4);
               Console.WriteLine();     
               
                
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

    }

string[] arr = new string[] { "server1", "server2", "server3" }; // server names you want to ping
foreach (string i in arr)

string[] servers = new string[] { "server1", "server2", "server3" }; // server names you want to ping
foreach (string server in servers)
   {
   ...
   }

int pingloop = 0;
do
   {

   PingReply reply = pingSender.Send(i, timeout, buffer, options);
   if (reply.Status == IPStatus.Success)
       {
       Console.WriteLine("Reply from {0}", reply.Address.ToString() + ": bytes=" + reply.Buffer.Length + " time=" + reply.RoundtripTime + "ms" + " TTL=" + reply.Options.Ttl);
       pingloop = pingloop +1;
       }
   }
   while (pingloop < 4);

for (int retries = 0; retries < 4; retries++)
   {
   PingReply reply = pingSender.Send(i, timeout, buffer, options);
   if (reply.Status == IPStatus.Success)
       {
       Console.WriteLine("Reply from {0}", reply.Address.ToString() + ": bytes=" + reply.Buffer.Length + " time=" + reply.RoundtripTime + "ms" + " TTL=" + reply.Options.Ttl);
       break;
       }
   }

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Threading;


namespace Examples.System.Net.NetworkInformation.PingTest
{
    public class PingExample
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            const string f = @"c:\temp\servernames.txt";
            List<string> servers = new List<string>();

            Ping pingSender = new Ping();
            PingOptions options = new PingOptions();
            //PingCompletedEventArgs e = new PingCompletedEventArgs();
            string line = null; //line in a file
            PingReply reply = null; // variable reply is set to null and referenced to the object type PingReply
            //string lineerror = null;

            // Use the default Ttl value which is 128,
            // but change the fragmentation behavior.
            options.DontFragment = true;

            // Create a buffer of 32 bytes of data to be transmitted.
            string data = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa";
            byte[] buffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data);
            int timeout = 250;
            using (StreamReader r = new StreamReader(f))
            {
                // 3
                // Use while != null pattern for loop
                while ((line = r.ReadLine()) != null)
                {
                    // 4
                    // Insert logic here.
                    // ...
                    // "line" is a line in the file. Add it to our List.
                    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(line))
                    {
                        // 3
                        // Test with IsNullOrEmpty
                        //lineerror = "Line appears to be empty";
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        servers.Add(line);
                    }
                }//end of while
            }//end fo using

            //string[] arr = new string[] { "server1", "server2", "server3" }; // server names you want to ping

            foreach (string i in servers)
            {

                Console.WriteLine(i);
                for (int retries = 0; retries < 4; retries++)
                {
                    try
                    {
                        reply = pingSender.Send(i, timeout, buffer, options); // variable reply is assigned

                        if (reply.Status == IPStatus.Success)
                        {
                            Console.WriteLine("Reply from {0}", reply.Address.ToString() + ": bytes=" + reply.Buffer.Length + " time=" + reply.RoundtripTime + "ms" + " TTL=" + reply.Options.Ttl);
                            //Console.WriteLine(reply.Status);
                            //Console.WriteLine("Bytes {0}", reply.Buffer.Length);
                            //Console.WriteLine("RoundTrip time: {0}", reply.RoundtripTime);
                            //Console.WriteLine("Time to live: {0}", reply.Options.Ttl);
                            //Console.WriteLine("Don't fragment: {0}", reply.Options.DontFragment);
                        }
                        //else
                        //{
                        //    Console.WriteLine(lineerror);
                        //}
                    }
                    catch (PingException e)
                    {
                       Console.WriteLine("Ping failed: " + e.Message);
                    }



                }// end of for

                Console.WriteLine();
            }//end of foreach
            Console.ReadLine();
        }//end of Main

    }//end of PingExample

}

d00_ape wrote:

Should I read it in as a byte[] and use varbinary(max) as database column type?