The following example uses ping in its simplest form, but the information obtained is very useful. The ping tool is testing and measuring traffic between the local station and the station testcase. See the ping(1M) reference page for more details about the many ping options.
The percentage packet loss is highlighted in bold. Again, 0% packet loss is the goal. Anything over 0.1% should be investigated further./usr/etc/ping testcase
PING testcase (192.55.43.4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.55.43.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0 ms 64 bytes from 192.55.43.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0 ms 64 bytes from 192.55.43.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0 ms 64 bytes from 192.55.43.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0 ms 64 bytes from 192.55.43.4: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0 ms
----testcase PING Statistics----
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 0/0/0