Batch ERRORLEVEL ping response

Question

I\'m trying to use a batch file to confirm a network connection using ping. I want to do batch run and then print if the ping was successful or not. The problem is that it a

Answer 1

I liked the concept of the FIND in the ping results but why not just FIND the Reply from the Address being pinged?

In the example below I enter an IP address as a variable, PING that IP, then look for that variable in the reply string, using the FIND Command. If the Reply String contains anything other than the correct IP it reports failure.

If you want you can just read the value of ERRORLEVEL from the FIND. That will give you a reliable value to work with.

@echo off
Set /P IPAdd=Enter Address:
cls
ping %IPAdd% | find "Reply from %IPAdd%:"
if not errorlevel 1 set error=success
if errorlevel 1 set error=failure
cls
echo Result: %error%
pause