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<iPING> Tag

<iPING	SERVER ="<hostname \| ipaddress>"
	TIMEOUT="timeout in milleseconds"
	MAXHOPS="maxhops"	(0 to 255)
	>

This tag returns the time in milleseconds it took to PING the specified IP address or host name. Note that this tag needs the following DLL's to be present: JPING.DLL, WSOCK32.DLL, GENSCK32.DLL and ICMP.DLL in the windows system or system32 directory.

Usage This tag can be used to resolve IP addresses in the environment variable :i_ip to a host name.

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	This tag returns the time in milleseconds it took to PING the specified IP address or host name. Note that this tag needs the following DLL's to be present: JPING.DLL, WSOCK32.DLL, GENSCK32.DLL and ICMP.DLL in the windows system or system32 directory.
Usage	This tag can be used to resolve IP addresses in the environment variable :i_ip to a host name.