Function Reference


Ping

Pings a host and returns the roundtrip-time.

Ping ( "address/hostname" [, timeout = 4000] )

Parameters

address/hostname Can be i.e. "www.autoitscript.com" or "87.106.244.38".
timeout [optional] Is the time to wait for an answer in milliseconds (default is 4000).

Return Value

Success: the roundtrip-time in milliseconds ( greater than 0 ).
Failure: 0 if host is not pingable or other network errors occurred and sets the @error flag to non-zero.
@error: 1 = Host is offline
2 = Host is unreachable
3 = Bad destination
4 = Other errors

Example

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

Example()

Func Example()
    ; Ping the AutoIt website with a timeout of 250ms.
    Local $iPing = Ping("autoitscript.com", 250)

    If $iPing Then ; If a value greater than 0 was returned then display the following message.
        MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "The roundtrip-time took: " & $iPing & "ms.")
    Else
        MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "An error occurred with @error value of: " & @error)
    EndIf
EndFunc   ;==>Example