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Suppose you send a ping request for an IP address: ping 10.23.14.115. What should the expected output be? Should you have something very short like:

      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      
      Ping Statistics for 10.23.14.115

Or something long like:

      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      Reply from 10.23.14.115, bytes -, ..
      
      
      Ping Statistics for 10.23.14.115

What happens if you get a longer result using one computer and a shorter result using another computer?

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  • Try to increase cmd buffer size.
    – Wasif
    Commented Jun 19, 2020 at 1:20

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Depends on which system and which ping implementation you use.

On Windows, by default ping sends 4 packets only. So you get 4 responses, like the 1st example you give. If you do ping -t some-host, it'll keep pinging until you stop it with CTRL+C. You typically want to do this when you are restarting a server, you would do ping -t your-server so that you know as soon as the server is online.

On Linux, I believe by default ping keeps pinging the host until you stop it.

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