pingable

That can be pinged; responsive to pings.

Adjective

  1. That can be pinged; responsive to pings.
    • Not only were the hop counts believable, but all the source IPs appeared to be alive and pingable... - 2002, Stephen Northcutt, Judy Novak, Network Intrusion Detection: An Analyst's Handbook:
    • If the point-to-point addresses are not in the iBGP, the customer point-to-point link will not be pingable, which could be an unacceptable situation... - 2002, Barry Raveendran Greene, Philip Smith, Cisco ISP Essentials:

Origin

Etymology tree English ping Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English pingable From ping + -able.