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Message: [QUOTE="Neel, post: 2544931"] Thanks a lot Larry for help. BUT, as I said, I would like to know the ping result (If I get a ping reply from remote host, its TRUE) and (if I don't get a ping reply from remote host, its FALSE). I used WEXITSTATUS(status) with remote host disconnected. I am still getting a TRUE. Please see below my code. sprintf(pingstring,"ping -w 2 %s",ip_add); // Execute 'ping' command via the system call status = system(pingstring); //lint !e421 function 'system(const char *)' is considered dangerous [MISRA Rule 126] PDEBUG("Ping returned status:%d", status); if (-1 != status) { ping_ret = WEXITSTATUS(status); PDEBUG("Ping WEXITSTATUS ping_ret:%d", ping_ret); if(0 == ping_ret) { result = TRUE; } } In both cases when remote host replys or doesn't reply, i get "ping_ret" as 0. Let me know what i am doing wrong here. Thanks for this stupid question [/QUOTE]