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--- ping_test [2020/03/23 10:36 (4 years ago)] – kevin
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 ====== Performing a Ping Test ======
-A 'ping' is a basic network test that will send messages across a network to a computer and measure the time lapsed from sending to receiving the messages.  It will record any packet loss and average trip times.  The ping test is testing UDP protocol of the TCP/IP stack.  UDP compared to TCP does not re-transmit aso when a package is lost or dropped, this can tell us something.  A very small percentage of packet loss may not be something to worry about.  Large amounts of packet loss could be a symptom of a hardware or network configuration issue.
+A 'ping' is a basic network test that will send messages across a network to a computer and measure the time lapsed from sending to receiving the messages.  It will record any packet loss and average trip times.  The ping test is testing UDP protocol of the TCP/IP stack.  UDP compared to TCP does not re-transmit as when a package is lost or dropped, this can tell us something.  A very small percentage of packet loss may not be something to worry about.  Large amounts of packet loss could be a symptom of a hardware or network configuration issue.
 ===== How to execute a Ping Test =====
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   - Let the test run for several minutes (or hours if you have time) or until a software event takes place such as System Five locking up. You will have to hit CTRL and C on the keyboard to stop the test.
   - Note the date/time of test completion and collect the **Ping statistics**.
-<note tip>The -t tells ping to perform a continuous test to the server and the -l 2000 sets the packet size to 2000.
+<note tip>The -t tells ping to perform a continuous test to the server and the -l 2000 sets the packet size to 2000.  Testing with a larger packet size puts more load on the test than the default 32 bytes.  We have seen the 32 standard test pass and not show when there has been a transient network issue.
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