Mergic Ping is a Palm OS implementation of the UNIX PING program.

It was written as a support tool for Mergic VPN but, since it is generally useful for testing TCP/IP connections, it is being released as a free program.

Features:

The host to ping can be specified as an IP address or DNS name.

Pings can be configured to stop after a number of packets, a number of seconds or a Cancel button is pressed. The default is to stop after 4 packets.

The time to wait between sending pings can be specified in seconds or to flood the host as fast as responses are received. The default is to send a ping every second.

Packets can be filled with zeros, random characters or a custom pattern of up to 16 characters. The default is to fill packets with zeros.

The size of the ping packets can be specified. The default size is 32 bytes.

The maximum time to wait for a response is configurable. The default is 10 seconds.