Question

I’m making a tool to test a connection to certain host using a class “PingReply” in .NET. My problem is it takes a while to get a result if the ping result is a fail. It is LAN environment so i can already assume that the connection is failed if it takes more than 100ms. The code below shows a result after 5 seconds, which is 5000ms, if the connection to the host fails. Can i get the faster result even though the connection is failed?

Ping x = new Ping();
PingReply reply = x.Send(IPAddress.Parse("192.168.0.1")); 
if (reply.Status == IPStatus.Success)
{
    //Do something
}

Answer 1

You can pass a timeout to the Ping.Send() method. Please check out the overloaded members.