Re: Test-Connection with Specified timeout

PepeManolo — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Mr. RSiddaway,

Would you know if the SourceRoute property in the Win32_PingStatus class would do the trick for specifying which NIC I want to utilize to send the Ping packet?

As I mentioned before, the idea is to send a ping (with short timeout) by one NIC and then send another by the other NIC. This works with Test-Connection cmdlet, but the timeout is too long (+/- 45 seconds).

Thanks in advance

Test-Connection with Specified timeout

PepeManolo — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 05:00:00 GMT

I am writing a short script which pings a list of external servers using two NICs on different Networks. The idea is to verify both networks reach the internet.

The commandlet Test-Connection "$IP" -Source "$NIC" works correctly for the desired NIC. However, the default timeout takes too long when the destination is unreachable.

The documentation indicates -TimeToLive <timeout> as the argument to use but to no avail.

My understanding is that Test-Connection is a wraper for Win32_PingStatus, where TTL has the purpose we have know all this time as the max hops to jump.

Is there an undocumented argument for Test-Connection which would allow me to specify the max timeout to wait for a reply?

Thanks in advance

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