PathPing Output

PathPing displays its output in two sections. The first section is immediately displayed and shows a numbered list of all devices that responded between the source and the destination. The first device, numbered 0, is the host on which PathPing is running. PathPing will attempt to look up the name of each device.

To speed up the display of PathPing, use the -d command option to keep PathPing from attempting to resolve the name of each intermediate router address.

The second section of the PathPing output begins with the message "Computing statistics for xxx seconds." The amount of time for which PathPing computes statistics will vary from a few seconds to a few minutes, depending on the number of devices that PathPing found. During this time, PathPing is querying each of the devices and calculating performance statistics based on whether-and how quickly-each device responds.

Based on PathPing's output, you can often quickly identify the source of your connectivity problems as a name resolution problem, a routing problem, a performance problem, or a possible connectivity issue. By using PathPing, you can also rule out active connectivity issues at the network layer or below.