Today, I am going to share something useful. In this tutorial we will learn how to ping an IP address or a host using ASP.NET.
Ping from ASP.NET
Directly moving to a design. Below is the simplest possible design for Ping. We have used a textbox, a button and a textarea.
Code for ASPX Page.
<h2>Pinging from ASP.NET</h2> <table border="1"> <tr> <td> <table> <tr> <td>IP Address </td> <td> <asp:TextBox ID="txtIPAddr" runat="server" Width="200px"></asp:TextBox> <asp:Button ID="btnPing" runat="server" Text="Ping" OnClick="btnPing_Click" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td> Reply </td> <td colspan="2"> <textarea id="txtPingReply" runat="server" rows="2" cols="80" style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: white"></textarea> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>
Now, just add below line of code on button click event. But before that, ensure to add a namespace which is mentioned below.
using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
Now button click code to Display Ping Results
protected void btnPing_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Ping p = new Ping();
PingReply r;
String s = txtIPAddr.Text;
r = p.Send(s);
Response.Buffer = false;
if (r.Status != IPStatus.Success)
{
txtPingReply.InnerText = "Sorry! Can not ping due to unknown reason.";
}
else if (r.Status == IPStatus.Success)
{
txtPingReply.InnerText = "Reply from " + s.ToString() + "[" + r.Address.ToString() + "] bytes = "
+ r.Buffer.Length.ToString() + " time= " + r.RoundtripTime.ToString() + " ms." + "n";
}
} 
Ok, Now lets Run page and see the outcome by putting a hostname or IP address.
We have successfully received reply using ping from asp.net. If you want to know more about Pinging in C#, you can learn a lot from below article published at CodeProject.
Thanks for reading.
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