ping timeout and retries

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<p align=left><font style="font-size:11px using System;  </font> </td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7 using System.Text;  </td></tr>
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<td>using System.Net;  </td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7 using System.Net.NetworkInformation;  </td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7 namespace PingExperiment {  </td></tr>
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<td>    class PingExperiment {  </td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7  </td></tr>
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<td>        public static void Main(string[] args) {  </td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7             Ping </font><font style="color:red ping</font><font style="font-size:11px  = </font><font style="color:blue new</font><font style="font-size:11px  Ping();  </font></td></tr>
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<td>            int </font><font style="color:red timeout</font><font style="font-size:11px  = </font><font style="color:blue 500</font><font style="font-size:11px ;  </font></td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7             int </font><font style="color:red msStartTime</font><font style="font-size:11px  = </font><font style="color:blue Environment</font><font style="font-size:11px .TickCount;  </font></td></tr>
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<td>            try {  </td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7                 ping.Send("nonexistenthost", timeout);  </td></tr>
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<td>            } catch (Exception e) {  </td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7                 Console.WriteLine(e.Message);  </td></tr>
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<td>            }  </td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7             int </font><font style="color:red msEndTime</font><font style="font-size:11px  = </font><font style="color:blue Environment</font><font style="font-size:11px .TickCount;  </font></td></tr>
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<td>            Console.WriteLine("ping timeout was {0}. ping took {1}", timeout, msEndTime - msStartTime);  </td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7         }  </td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7     }  </td></tr>
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<td>} </td></tr></tbody></table> <font size=2>I am confused regarding ping timeout. It takes longer than expected. Is it retrying 3 or 4 times? I could not see a way to set retries.

The code above produces the following output.
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<td><font style="font-size:11px An exception occurred during a Ping request.  </font></td></tr>
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<td style="background-color:#f7f7f7 ping timeout was 500. ping took 2297 </td></tr></tbody></table>


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