Laboratory Activity 2: Ping and Tracert

Juan Glicerio C. Manlapaz

Department of Electronics, Computer,and Communications Engineering
Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Philippines
juan.manlapaz@obf.ateneo.edu

I. METHODOLOGY
A. List of Materials utilized
For this lab activity, two devices were used: a Lenovo
laptop and a Samsung smartphone.
B. Procedure
The main objective of this experiment was to perform
ping and tracert in two devices that are connected to the
same network. These are done by writing the needed queries
using the Command Prompt. The laptop’s IP address, Fig. 2. Ping Details of the Default Gateway
default gateway, DHCP/DNS server, loopback IP address
are pinged and the results were taken. Furthermore, the From this figure, four packets with each packet with a
smartphone’s IP address was pinged and the results were size of 32 bytes are sent to IPv4 address 192.168.1.1 and is
taken. successful. The average time for this ping was about 5
For the tracert, five websites were used to trace the route milliseconds with max time of 10 milliseconds and
to each of their respective IP addresses and the results were minimum time of 2 milliseconds.
taken. This is also done in the Command Prompt.
By typing ping 192.168.1.1 (this DHCP Server
II. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
address was recorded from the previous lab) in the
A. Findings from Ping command prompt, the output is shown in Figure 3.
By typing ping 192.168.1.57 (this IP address was
recorded from the previous lab) in the command prompt, the
output is shown in Figure 1.

Fig. 3. Ping Details of the DHCP server

From this figure, four packets with each packet with a

Fig. 1. Ping Details of the IP address of the laptop
From this figure, four packets with each packet with a
size of 32 bytes are sent to IPv4 address 192.168.1.57 and is
successful. Each packet took a time of less than 1ms to
traverse which is expected since that IP address is the IP
address of the device used in this command which is the
laptop.
size of 32 bytes are sent to IPv4 address 192.168.1.1 and is
successful. The average time for this ping was about 5
milliseconds with max time of 11 milliseconds and
minimum time of 2 milliseconds.
By typing ping 127.0.0.1 (this is the loopback IP
address) in the command prompt, the output is shown in
Figure 4.

By typing ping 192.168.1.1 (this default gateway

was recorded from the previous lab) in the command
prompt, the output is shown in Figure 2.

Fig. 3. Ping Details of the loopback IP address
From this figure, four packets with each packet with a
size of 32 bytes are sent to IPv4 address 127.0.0.1 and is
successful. Each packet took a time of less than 1ms to
traverse which shows that the TCP/IP is properly installed
and functioning in the laptop.
B. Findings from pinging the smartphone
Typing ping 192.168.1.73 (this is the IP address
of the smartphone obtained in Lab Activity 1) in the
Command Prompt shows the results in Figure 4.
Fig. 4. Ping Details of the smartphone’s IP address
From this figure, four packets with each packet with a
size of 32 bytes are sent to IPv4 address 192.168.1.73 and is
successful. The average time for this ping was about 116
milliseconds with max time of 169 milliseconds and
minimum time of 28 milliseconds.
C. Findings from Tracert
Typing tracert www.google.com in the
Command Prompt shows the trace route results to the IP
address of Google. Figure 5 shows the results.
Fig. 5. Tracert results of Google
This shows that it took 9 hops to go from the laptop’s IP
address to the IP address of Google.com.
Typing tracert www.youtube.com in the
Command Prompt shows the trace route results to the IP
address of YouTube. Figure 6 shows the results.
Fig. 6. Tracert results of YouTube
This shows that it took 9 hops to go from the laptop’s IP
address to the IP address of the YouTube website.
Typing tracert www.wikipedia.org in the
Command Prompt shows the trace route results to the IP
address of YouTube. Figure 7 shows the results.
Fig. 7. Tracert results of Wikipedia
This shows that it took 7 hops to go from the laptop’s IP
address to the IP address of the Wikipedia website.
Typing tracert www.facebook.com in the
Command Prompt shows the trace route results to the IP
address of Facebook. Figure 8 shows the results.
Fig. 8. Tracert results of Facebook
This shows that it took 9 hops to go from the laptop’s IP
address to the IP address of the Facebook website.
Typing tracert www.twitter.com in the
Command Prompt shows the trace route results to the IP
address of Twitter. Figure 9 shows the results.
Fig. 9. Tracert results of Twitter
This shows that it took 9 hops to go from the laptop’s IP
address to the IP address of the Twitter website.
 NetBIOS name resolution
[1].
D. Findings from Tracert in the Smartphone
Short for network statistics.
Typing tracert 192.168.1.73 in the Command This is the command line
Prompt shows the trace route results to the IP address of the tool that is used to display
smartphone. Figure 10 shows the results. netsat the current network
connections and port
activity on your computer
[2].
Command line tool that
displays the TCP/IP
ipconfig network configuration of
the network adapters on a
Fig. 10. Tracert results of the smartphone
Windows computer [3].
This shows that it took 1 hop to go from the laptop’s IP Stands for Adress
address to the IP address of the smartphone. Resolution Protocol. This
arp is used to resolve IP
E. Other Networking Prompts adresses to MAC addresses
Below is a table for other networking command line [4].
tools that can be used. hostname Command line tool that
outputs the hostname [5].
Short for NetBIOS over Displays and modifies the
TCP/IP statistics. This is route entries in the local IP
nbstat
the command line that can routing table [6].
help solve problems with
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