"""
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-present Intel Corporation
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020-present Open Networking Foundation <info@opennetworking.org>
SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
"""

import subprocess
# import logging as log


def ping(host):
    # log.debug("Pinging {}".format(host))
    if host is not None:
        return subprocess.call(["ping", "-c", "2", "-W", "2", host],
                stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
                stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) == 0
    else:
        return False