Checking host reachability on windows command line

batch-file, cmd, network-programming, ping, windows

Solution

Do something like this:

PING 192.168.1.1 -n 1 | FIND /I "Reply from "

Then you can check errorlevel

Edit: To accommodate "Destination host unreachable error you could do this:

PING 192.168.1.1 -n 1 | FIND /I /V "unreachable" | FIND /I "Reply from "

Problem

How can I check in batch-file if host is reachable or not? The problem is that `ping` returns 0 not only on success, but also on `Destination host unreachable` error: ``` C:\>ping 192.168.1.1 -n 1 Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64 Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1: Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 3ms, Maximum = 3ms, Average = 3ms C:\>echo %errorlevel% 0 C:\>ping 192.168.1.105 -n 1 Pinging 192.168.1.105 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.102: Destination host unreachable. Ping statistics for 192.168.1.105: Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss), C:\>echo %errorlevel% 0 ``` Is there any way to do it with `ping` or any other build-in-Windows tool? I would prefer not to install anything if that's possible...

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