15 Effective Ping Command Examples

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the peer host/gateway is reachable.
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As you already know, ping command is used to find out whether
If you are thinking ping is such a simple command and why do I need 15 examples, you should read the rest of
the article.
Ping command provides lot more options than what you might already know.
Ping Example 1. Increase or Decrease the Time Interval Between Packets

By default ping waits for 1 second before sending the next packet. You can increase or decrease this using option
-i as shown below.
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Increase Ping Time Interval

Example: Wait for 5 seconds before sending the next packet.
$ ping -i 5 IP
Decrease Ping Time Interval

Example: Wait 0.1 seconds before sending the next packet.
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# ping -i 0.1 IP
Note: Only super user can specify interval less than 0.2 seconds. If not, youll get the following error message.
$ ping -i 0.1 127.0.0.1
PING 0 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
ping: cannot flood; minimal interval, allowed for user, is 200ms
Ping Example 2. Check whether the local network interface is up and running
Before checking whether the peer machine is reachable, first check whether the local network network is up and
running using any one of the following 3 methods.
Ping localhost using zero (0)
This is probably the easiest and simplest way to ping a local host
$ ping 0
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.024 ms
^C
Ping localhost using name

$ ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.051 ms
^C
--- localhost ping statistics --2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
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rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.051/0.053/0.055/0.002 ms
Ping localhost using ip

$ ping 127.0.0.1
To quit the ping command, send SIGINT signal by pressing CTRL+C. If you have not specified any option to
make the ping to exit automatically, then you will be terminating using CTRL+C ( SIGINT ) which will show the
statistics and then terminate the ping process. When everything is working properly, it should say 0% packet
loss
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
Ping Example 3. Send N packets and stop

Send N packets specified with -c option and then stop. This way the ping command can exit automatically
instead of pressing CTRL+C to exit.
In the following example, ping command sends 5 packets, and waits for response from the destination host. Ping
will exit after receiving the response or error.
$ ping -c 5 google.com
PING google.com (74.125.45.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from yx-in-f100.google.com (74.125.45.100): icmp_seq=1
ttl=44
ttl=44
ttl=44
ttl=44
ttl=44
time=731 ms
time=777 ms
time=838 ms
time=976 ms
time=1071 ms
--- google.com ping statistics --5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4216ms
Ping Example 4. Show Version and Exit

Display the current version of ping program using -V option.
$ ping -V
ping utility, iputils-sss20071127
Ping Example 5. Flood the network

Super users can send hundred or more packets per second using -f option. It prints a . when a packet is sent,
and a backspace is printed when a packet is received.
As shown below, ping -f has sent more than 400,000 packets in few seconds.
# ping -f localhost
.^C
--- localhost ping statistics --427412 packets transmitted, 427412 received, 0% packet loss, time 10941ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.003/0.004/1.004/0.002 ms, ipg/ewma 0.025/0.004 ms
Ping Example 6. Audible ping: Give beep when the peer is reachable
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This option is useful for sysadmin during troubleshooting. There is no need for you to look at the ping output
after each and every change. You can continue working with your changes, and when the remote machine
become reachable youll hear the beep automatically.
$ ping -a IP
Note: It can give beep only from terminal number 1 through 7 and gnome-terminal ( It will not work in console ).
Ping Example 7. Find out the IP address

You can identify the ip-address using the host name as shown below.
$ ping -c 1 google.com
PING google.com (74.125.67.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from gw-in-f100.google.com (74.125.67.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=43 time=287 ms
--- google.com ping statistics --1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
Ping Example 8. Print Only Ping Command Summary Statistics

Use option -q to view only the ping statistics summary as shown below.
$ ping -c 5 -q 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3998ms
Ping Example 9. Change Ping Packet Size

You can change the packet size of ping command using -s option.
Example: Change the default packet size from 56 to 100.
$ ping -s 100 localhost
108 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
^C
--- localhost ping statistics --3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time
time=0.022 ms
time=0.021 ms
time=0.020 ms
1998ms
Ping Packet Size

In the above example, when we set the packet size to 100, it displays 128 bytes in the output. This is because
of the Ping packet header size, which is 28 bytes. So, if you specify the packet size as 100, 28 bytes for header
will be added to it and 128 bytes will be sent.
Ping Bytes Sent = Ping Packet Size + Ping Header Packet Size (28 bytes)
Ping Example 10. Timeout -w
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Ping -w option specifies the deadline to terminate the ping output. This specifies the total number of seconds the
ping command should send packets to the remote host.
The following example will ping for 5 seconds. i.e ping command will exit after 5 seconds irrespective of how
many packets are sent or received.
$ ping -w 5 localhost
Note: When you specify both -w, and -c, whichever comes first will terminate the ping command.
Ping Example 11. Online ping

Ping from different locations and check the reachability (availability or time for reaching) of your server from
different locations.
If you want to do an online ping, try just ping.
Ping Example 12. Option -w or -c Exits Ping

$ ping -c 4 0 -w 2
--- 0 ping statistics --3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
$ ping -c 4 0 -w 10
--- 0 ping statistics --4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2997ms
Ping Example 13. Shorter statistics with SIGQUIT

While ping is printing the individual packet status, when you want to view the shorter statistics you can use this
technique.
Pressing CTRL+| (Control key followed by pipe symbol) for the shows the summary in between, and continues
with it packet sending and receiving process.
$ ping -w 100 localhost
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=0.021
11/11 packets, 0% loss, min/avg/ewma/max = 0.020/0.022/0.022/0.024
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Ping Example 14. Specify path for ping to send the packet
You can also specify through which path the ping should send the packet to destination.
$ ping hop1 hop2 hop3 .. hopN destination
$ ping 192.168.3.33 192.168.7.1 192.168.4.45
Note: If one of the hop in the path is not reachable then you will have failure in pinging.
Ping Example 15. Record and print route of how ECHO_REQUEST sent and
ECHO_REPLY received
It records, and prints the network route through which the packet is sent and received. This is useful for network
engineers who wish to know how the packet is sent and received.
$ ping -R 192.168.1.63
PING 192.168.1.63 (192.168.1.63) 56(84) bytes of data.
RR:
192.168.9.118
192.168.3.25
192.168.10.35
192.168.1.26
192.168.1.63
192.168.1.63
192.168.10.4
192.168.3.10
192.168.4.25
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1 Salih November 30, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Hi Ramesh,
Good Article. Thanks
Best Regards
Salih KM
2 Anonymous December 1, 2009 at 10:26 am
very good tutorial
3 diptanu paul December 2, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Excellent article Ramesh.Thanks for the increasing the kowledgebase.
4 S.RAGHU December 3, 2009 at 3:13 am
Great article.Never knew ping could be used to determine the ip or route and also get the short stat. Thanx
5 Sravan Babu December 5, 2009 at 12:53 am
Hi RameshAwesome tut on ping
but I m unable
to use the audible option
When I use ping -a google.com
I m not able to hear any beep
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6 NetSpider December 6, 2009 at 1:12 pm

ive got strange result on FreeBSD
~> netstat -r -n
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default a.b.c.1 UGS 0 66309126 em0
Okay, my GW is a.b.c.1. But when im going to ping 0, ive got this:
~> ping 0.0.0.0
PING 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from a.b.c.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.261 ms
64 bytes from a.b.c.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.109 ms
^C
i dont know why.. =(
0 should be my default GW (!not 127.0.0.1!)
7 Ramesh Natarajan December 10, 2009 at 5:55 pm
@Salih, Diptanu,
Thanks for the comment. Im very glad you found this article helpful.
@Raghu,
Yes. Lot of people underestimate the power of ping.
@Sravan,
If you are trying to do a ping -a on a remote server, youll hear the beep only on the host where the ping
command is getting executed.
For example, from your laptop, if youve ssh-ed to dev-db and executing ping -a google.com on dev-db,
youll hear the beep only on the dev-db box.
@Netspider,
That is strange. Im not sure why that is happening. When you do, ping 0, it is supposed to ping only the
local host and not even the gateway. Are there any strange entries in your /etc/hosts file?
8 Reza December 21, 2009 at 12:17 am
Thanks for your very nice tutorial. Could you please also help me with these two questions:
1- Ping claims to give an estimation about RTT(Round Trip Time) for SPECIFIC PACKET SIZE. But as it
shows the packet that is coming back is 20Bytes less. So we have a RTT for which packet size (86 which
goes or 66 which is coming back) ?
2-What does mdev means in mid/avg/max/mdev
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9 Anonymous March 23, 2011 at 5:12 am
superb article
10 saikrishna July 18, 2011 at 4:09 am
super article
11 TK Nallappan August 6, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Hi All,
Here is the command to protect yourself from a form of attack known as a ping flood
# sysctl -w net.ipv4.icmp_echoreply_rate=10
12 Greg Janssen October 27, 2011 at 12:38 pm
This must not be about Windows XP! Parts of it do not work with XP. Can the Increase Decrease Time
Internal of Ping packets be shown for XP? Thanks.
13 angel July 8, 2012 at 10:32 pm
One of the small hive of usable articles!
14 Gaurav B August 6, 2012 at 10:51 am
One word !!! Ultimate !!!
Thanks for posting.
15 sumit September 5, 2012 at 2:04 pm
im using ubuntu 11.10, and new linux user.
ping -R isnt workingit isnt showing me the return path
16 Sean January 31, 2013 at 7:33 pm
can you tell me what the difference between Ping -R and normal ping
i notice i can always ping but Ping -R doesnt behave the same
we had some issues with mac not being able print or use afp ( we recently upgraded to mountain lion)
we narrowed it down to the bridge that connects another bridge connection which links to a gateway to the
windows 2008 server side. As soon as we disconnected the bridge connection and use Ping -R to a printer
works straight away and afp works too.. soon as we connected it back it stops working and ping -R time
out
17 kumar February 11, 2013 at 4:22 am
how to reduce ping
18 Heinz March 29, 2013 at 9:34 am
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Hi
Nice tutorial. I get a correct address when I ping 0 but get something different when I ping localhost?
Strange
19 Anuraj August 28, 2013 at 6:10 am
Good Article
20 Anonymous October 25, 2013 at 12:58 pm
Awesome tutorial dude. learned alot.
21 Bob November 10, 2013 at 12:29 am
this article is wrong in many respects
%ping -V
ping: illegal option V
host(1) or drill(1) should be used to determine IP not ping.
there is no -w option. you mean to use -t for timeout
CTRL+| is wrong. You mean CTRL-t
ping does not support source routing
22 NetSpider November 11, 2013 at 8:29 pm
Bob, I assume youre using Mac OS X or FreeBSD?
Ive got the same error on FreeBSD:
~ ~> ping -V
ping: illegal option V
Ramesh should specify that some examples may vary on non-Linux OSes or even on some Linux versions.
A better way to determine IP is dig:
~ ~> dig +short google.com
173.194.70.101
173.194.70.139
In order to try drill I had to install /usr/ports/dns/ldns, but in my taste the dig is better.
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Ping Example 1. Increase or Decrease the Time Interval Between Packets

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Increase Ping Time Interval

Decrease Ping Time Interval

Ping localhost using name

Ping Tutorial: 15 Effective Ping Command Examples

rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.051/0.053/0.055/0.002 ms

Ping localhost using ip

Ping Example 3. Send N packets and stop

Ping Example 4. Show Version and Exit

Ping Example 5. Flood the network

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Ping Example 7. Find out the IP address

Ping Example 8. Print Only Ping Command Summary Statistics

Ping Example 9. Change Ping Packet Size

Ping Packet Size

Ping Example 10. Timeout -w

Ping Tutorial: 15 Effective Ping Command Examples

Ping Example 11. Online ping

Ping Example 12. Option -w or -c Exits Ping

Ping Example 13. Shorter statistics with SIGQUIT

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64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=33 ttl=64 time=0.023 ms

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