Mikrotik Command line ping bug

RouterOS General
1

ping 192.168.34.1 size=1500 interval=00:00:05
worked

ping 192.168.34.1 size=1500 interval=00:00:00.2
do not worked

2

How is that a bug?

3

what?

4

you cannot set any lower time frame as 1 second in normal ping command.

if you need more pings sent - just use /tool flood-ping

5

Sorry for my simple expression. Ill try to explain what i have found.

Try write into RouterOs console:
[admin@GateWay] > ping 192.168.52.1 interval=05

You will receive this in 5second interval:
192.168.52.1 64 byte ping: ttl=63 time<1 ms
192.168.52.1 64 byte ping: ttl=63 time<1 ms
192.168.52.1 64 byte ping: ttl=63 time<1 ms
192.168.52.1 64 byte ping: ttl=63 time<1 ms
192.168.52.1 64 byte ping: ttl=63 time<1 ms


And than try to write into console this:
[admin@GateWay] > ping 192.168.52.1 interval=10

You will receive this message:
value of interval is out of range (00:00:00.010 .. 00:00:05)



Try to write into console this:
[admin@GateWay] > ping 192.168.52.1 interval=00:00:00.010
or only
[admin@GateWay] > ping 192.168.52.1 interval=0.010

You will receive this response:
invalid time value for argument interval




I think some think is wrong…
In winbox, you are able to do this. In console you are not.

6

00:00:00.010 is 10ms

you have to write
/ping 192.168.52.1 interval=10ms

And this is from manual:
interval (time: 10ms..5s; default: 1s) - delay between messages

so it is working as it should.

7

Ok THX for explaining.
But than it should be written this message by RouterOS:
value of interval is out of range 10ms .. 5s)
instead of this message:
value of interval is out of range (00:00:00.010 .. 00:00:05)