An engineer initiated a Cisco IOS ping and received an output of two exclamation points, one period, followed by another two exclamation points (!!.!!). What does this output tell the engineer?
A) None of the echo messages received a reply.
B) The third echo message is the only one to receive a reply.
C) The third echo message timed out, but all the others received a reply.
D) All five of the echo messages received a reply.

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C) In the Cisco IOS, a period represents a timed-out ping request and exclamation point represents a successful reply. Because the third character is a period, this means that the third echo message timed out while the others were successful.

An Engineer Initiated a Cisco IOS Ping and Received an Output