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Ping



tool/ping

Type: Command

See Ping for the full documentation.

<ArgTableRow arg="address" typ="address (flags=46v%Dm)">IP address or DNS name of the target host. See address flags</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="interval" typ="time">Time interval between ICMP echo requests</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="size" typ="num">Size of the ICMP data payload in bytes</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="ttl" typ="num">Time to Live value for the ICMP packet</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="dscp" typ="num">DSCP value to set in the IP header for QoS marking</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="do-not-fragment" typ="switch">Set the Don't Fragment flag in the IP header</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="src-address" typ="alt { ip-src-address: ipAddr , ip6-src-address: ip6Addr }">Source IP address to use for the ICMP echo request</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="arp-ping" typ="bool">Use ARP requests instead of ICMP echo to discover hosts</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="count" typ="num">Number of ICMP echo requests to send</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="nd-ping" typ="bool"></ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="interface" typ="iface_enum">Interface to send the ping through</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="vrf" typ="enum">VRF table to use for routing the ping request</ArgTableRow>

<ArgTableRow arg="seq" typ="num">Sequence number of the ping response</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="host" typ="alt { ipv6-address: ip6Addr , mac-address: macAddr , ip-address: ipAddr }">IP or MAC address of the responding host</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="size" typ="num">Size of the received ICMP packet in bytes</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="ttl" typ="num">Time to Live value from the received packet</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="time" typ="time">Round-trip time of the ping probe</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="status" typ="string">Status of the ping response</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="sent" typ="num">Total number of ICMP echo requests sent</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="received" typ="num">Total number of ICMP echo replies received</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="packet-loss" typ="num">Percentage of lost packets</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="min-rtt" typ="time">Minimum measured round-trip time</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="avg-rtt" typ="time">Average measured round-trip time</ArgTableRow> <ArgTableRow arg="max-rtt" typ="time">Maximum measured round-trip time</ArgTableRow>

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Updated 2026-08-22.