Powershell ping indefinitely

In Powershell is there a better way to ping a host indefinitely besides doing something like this:

$max = [System.Int32]::MaxValue
ping host -count $max

The '%WINDIR%\System32\ping.exe' has a '-t' option to ping until Ctrl-C is pressed.

3 Answers

while (1) { ping host
}

This will ping indefinitely until you press Ctrl-C just like ping -t would.

There is nothing at all wrong with John T's answer, but I will point out just for completeness sake that ping.exe is still there so this would work just fine in PS as well:

ping.exe host -t

in windows powershell you can use Test-Connection cmdlet.

This cmdlet sends ICMP echo request packets ("pings") to one or more computers using WMI

although it does not have any -t option but it have -count option that u can indicate number of ICMP pocket to send
instead you can use this cmdlet this way:

while (1) { Test-Connection host
} 

and result is like bellow: