MikroTik RouterOS V2.4 Ping

Overview

Ping uses Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo messages to determine if a remote host is active or inactive and to determine the round-trip delay when communicating with it.

Topics covered in this manual:

• Installation
• Hardware resource usage
• Ping Description
• Ping Examples

Installation

Hardware Resource Usage

There is no significant resource usage.

Ping Description

Ping utility shows Time To Live value of the received packet (ttl) and Roundtrip time (time) in ms. The console Ping session may be stopped when the Ctrl + C is pressed.

[MikroTik] > ping ?
Send ICMP Echo packets. Repeat after given time interval.

  <address>  IP address of host
      count  Number of packets
   interval  Delay between messages
       size  Packet size
[MikroTik] >

Descriptions of arguments:

address - IP address for the host you want to ping.
size - (optional) Size of the IP packet (in bytes, including the IP and ICMP headers). Can be 36...4096.
interval - (optional) Delay between messages (in seconds). Default is 1 second. Can be 10ms...5s.
count - How many time ICMP packets will be sent. If not specified, ping continues till CTRL+C is pressed.

Ping Examples

[MikroTik] > ping 159.148.60.2 count=5 interval=20ms size=64
159.148.60.2 pong: ttl=249 time=3 ms
159.148.60.2 pong: ttl=249 time<1 ms
159.148.60.2 pong: ttl=249 time<1 ms
159.148.60.2 pong: ttl=249 time<1 ms
159.148.60.2 pong: ttl=249 time<1 ms
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0/0.6/3 ms
[MikroTik] >