If you are tracking the latency and throughput on your server, you might need to get a relaistic ping output with time stamps , so that you can do a proper comparison and all .
In FreeBSD , the below command will run a ping on every 5 seconds with timestamps , you can then write its output to file for further use.
ping -i 5 www.bbc.com | awk '/^[0-9]+ bytes from / { "date" | getline pong; close("date"); print pong":",$0; }'The same command in Linux based operating systems .
ping -i 5 bbc.com | while read pong; do echo "$(date): $pong"; done