Network Utilities - Ping
Ping is a tool for checking network connectivity. See man page (man 8 ping) for more details.
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How many Packets?

How many Packets should this ping command send. 5 is the best in most cases. If you want to check the network for a longer time you can set a higher value here. 99 is the maximum.

Packet Size

From the man page of ping: An IP header without options is 20 bytes. An ICMP ECHO_REQUEST (Ping) packet contains additional 8 bytes worth of ICMP header followedby an arbitrary ammount of data.
Standard is 56, maximum is 9999 bytes.

How many sec between sending each packet?

How many sec should ping wait after sending a packet before it sends the next packet.

Pattern(s) to send (Hex)?

The data which is send by ping will be filled with this (hex-)pattern. If you leave this blank ping will fill it with random data. This is useful if you do not have problems with connectivity itself but with data loss.

Verbosity Output?

From the man page of ping: ICMP packets other than ECHO_Response that are received are listed.

Numeric Output only?

From the man page of ping: No attempt will be made to lookup symbolic names for host addresses.

Bypass routing tables?

From the man page of ping: If the host is not a directly-attached network, an error is returned. This option can be used to ping a local host through an interface that has no route through it.