PING Commands Cheat Sheet

Here is a cli commands cheat sheet for PING command, you can use this as a quick reminder for basic commands with a brief description for each of the commands.

What is PING command?

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# To ping  with 15 packets:
ping -c 15 

# To ping  with 15 packets, one every .5 seconds:
ping -c 15 -i .5 

# To test if a packet size of 1500 bytes is supported (to check the MTU for example):
ping -s 1500 -c 10 -M do 

# To Get all ipv6 neighbors via broadcast ping:
ping6 -I eth0 ff02::1
    

Check out the PING command documentation .

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