Ping Status

[vaishkhan161190]

Hi,

Can someone explain to me that what is the exact meaning of below Ping details.

PING xxx.xx.xx.xx (xxx.xx.xx.xx): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from xxx.xx.xx.xx: icmp seq=0 ttl=255 time=5.9ms

--- xxx.xx.xx.xx ping statistics ---

5 packets transmitted, 5 packet received, 0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max=5.4/5.5/5.9 ms

Regards

[Pawan Raut]

You have send 5 packets to the IP xxx.xx.xx.xx and you have received the reply from that IP for all 5 packets so 0 % packet loss. min time taken by packet to complete round trip is 5.4ms maximum time taken is 5.9ms and average is 5.5ms

In short connectivity between two host is fine

[vaishkhan161190]

thanks

but what is the mean of  icmp seq=0 ttl=255

[Paul]

seq=0 means it is the first packet sent. If you let the ping run the seq=X will increment.

TTL=225 is a time to live counter. It is sent in the packet header and used by routers to know when to discard the packet. When TTL=0 the packet is discarded. In addition, TTL=255 means that the IP you are pinging is the first router in the packet transmission. If TTL=100 then there are 155 routers between you an the destination.