Why not TCPING??

There are so many instances where gold old ping is not allowed through the network or blocked by the end device. In the past I have used nmap to test TCP port numbers but in some companies nmap is not allowed and some people have correctly commented that using nmap for just a TCP port test is overkill. Last week I stumbled upon TCPING (https://github.com/pouriyajamshidi/tcping) which is a command line utility that will check to see if a TCP port is up and provide response time statistics. Its pretty straightforward; just download, unzip and you’re good to go. In the following video I run you through some of the basics. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bXs0YFcknw