What is a Ping and what do the changing numbers mean in the Report?
The name comes from active sonar terminology and it is used to test the reachability of a host on an IP network and to measure the round trip delay from the host to the target and back. Ping operates by sending an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request packet to a target IP address and waiting on the response. The Ping value for each hop tells the number of Ping requests that were sent to the IP address.
