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Windows networking commands in Linux: 5 equivalents you should know (plus WSL tricks)

The default behavior of ping on Linux and other Unix-like systems is different from Windows. On Windows, the ping command ...
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Can i use ping to test an IP's port

Is there anyway to use ping to checka certain ip address and a certain port on that computer. It should work as Ping is an ICMP tool, right?