Topics: Networking, System Admin
Ping tricks
A few trick for the ping command to thoroughly test your network connectivity and check how much time a ping request takes:
Increase the interval of the ping requests from the default 1 second to, for example, 10 ping requests every second by using the -i option. As a test, to ping to 192.168.0.1, 10 times a second, run:
You can also go up to 1/100th of a second:# ping -i .1 192.168.0.1
To increase the default packet size of 64 bites, use -s option, for example to ping 1 KB with every ping request, run:# ping -i .01 192.168.0.1
Or combine the -i and -s options:# ping -s 1024 192.168.0.1
# ping -s 1024 -i .01 192.168.0.1
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