D-Link DFL-700 - Manual (Page 68)

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Tools
Ping
Click on Tools in the menu bar, and then click Ping below it. This tool is used to send a
specified number of ICMP Echo Request packets to a given destination. All packets are sent
in immediate succession rather than one per second. This behavior is the best one suited for
diagnosing connectivity problems.
• IP Address – Target IP to send the ICMP Echo Requests to.
• Number of packets – Number of ICMP Echo Request packets to send, up to 10.
• Packet size – Size of the packet to send, between 32 and 1500 bytes.
Ping Example
In this example, the IP Address is 192.168.10.1 the Number of packets is five, after
clicking on Apply the firewall will start to send the ICMP Echo Requests to the specified IP.
After a few seconds the result will be shown, in this example only four out of five packets was
received back, a 20% packet loss, and the average time for the packets to travel to and from
the specified IP was 57 ms.