Icmp Bandwidth Test; General Information - MikroTik RouterOS v2.9 Reference Manual

ICMP Bandwidth Test

Document revision 1.2 (Fri Mar 05 09:36:41 GMT 2004)
This document applies to MikroTik RouterOS V2.9
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Summary
Specifications
Related Documents
ICMP Bandwidth Test
Description
Property Description
Example

General Information

Summary
The ICMP Bandwidth Tester (Ping Speed) can be used to approximately evaluate the throughput to
any remote computer and thereby help to discover network 'bottlenecks'.
Specifications
Packages required: advanced-tools
License required: level1
Home menu level: /tool
Standards and Technologies:
Hardware usage: Not significant
Related Documents
• Software Package Management
• IP Addresses and ARP
• Log Management
ICMP Bandwidth Test
Description
The ICMP test uses two standard echo-requests per second. The time between these pings can be
changed. Ping packet size variation makes it possible to approximately evaluate connection
parameters and speed with different packet sizes. Statistics for throughput is calculated using the
size of the ICMP packet, the interval between ICMP echo-request and echo-reply and the
differences between parameters of the first and the second packet.
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ICMP (RFC792)