Hi Michael,

I usually prefer to use "fping" (or "fping6") which is has a lot of features.

Even on the Busybox ping you can set the count option -c2 for two tries.

Also try "mtr host"

$ mtr 8.8.8.8

or for a -w or --report-wide

$ mtr -w 8.8.8.8

Give "mtr" a try.

Lonnie


On Nov 9, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Michael Knill <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> 
wrote:

> Hi Group
>  
> Im having what I believe are some upstream network issues with one of my 
> providers and I really need to do some testing.
> Unfortunately the Busybox Ping is a bit limited in what it can do. Its also 
> annoying that it does not show timeouts until you stop it, unlike most other 
> Ping implementations (am I missing something here?).
>  
> Are there any other tools in Astlinux that can help with this?
>  
> Regards
> Michael Knill
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