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Not at all, ping is just a nickname for an ICMP echo message and the name of the /usr/bin/ping program. The output of the program are RTT minimum, max, average
by goodpoint 5y ago
Not at all, ping is just a nickname for an ICMP echo message and the name of the /usr/bin/ping program.
The output of the program are RTT minimum, max, average, mean deviation and percentage of packet loss.
You can also measure latency over UDP and TCP using other tools. For 99% of practical use cases there is actually no meaningful difference.