hrPING is an application that will send "ICMP Echo Request" packets to a specific remote computer and will listen to the matching "Echo response" packets.
Many PING utilities are already available, one is even released with Windows itself, called PING. But there is a couple of things Windows PING doesn't offer or which are too inaccurate. That's where hrPING comes in.
The first thing that is different is that hrPING times the round trip delay in microseconds. This is done by using the CPU's "Time Stamp Counter" which is incremented with the CPU's clock cycle. You can not get any more accurate with standard PCs today!
The next thing Windows PING can not do is send more than one PING packet at a time. Windows PING always sends one packet, waits for the reply, then prints its output line, repeat.
hrPING sends out one PING packet every x milliseconds (you can adjust this time with the -s parameter) while listening for incoming replies and printing the output if there is any.
What's more, hrPING has much better statistics than Windows PING. You
get the round trip times for ICMP error message replies as well! This way you can e.g. monitor the delay of a TTL exceed. hrPING counts the replies and error messages separately, so the global statistics don't mess up one another.
hrPING displays the IP identification field of the replies and thus makes it possible to do "silent load measurements".
What's New in This Release:
· Added -p option: hrPing is now a pathping as well! In pathping mode, hrPing will first work like traceroute and find the path to the destination, then ping all hops on that path. Pathping mode honours all useful hrPing options like -l, -u, -i, -s, -w, etc.
· Added -c option: concurrent sending. With this options set to , hrPing will keep at maximum pings at a time in transmission. That means it will send a new ping after it received a reply or a timeout of an already sent one. When using -c, -s times are not observed.
· Added -prec parameter to measure timer precision. Added -tick parameter, so you can compare how bad the standard timer is. Furthermore added support for multimedia timer with -mmtime, which gives at least 1000 Hz resolution.
· Added some more time scales to graphics.
· Quicker host name resolution in traceroute mode.
· Fixed missing timestamps in front of "Timeout waiting for" lines (-T option).
· Fixed "Can't find own IP address!" error.