2 minutes interval ping in Linux

I want to ping 192.168.1.254 every 2 minutes. Tried the following but it doesn't seem to ping again in 2 minutes.

ping -i 360 192.168.1.254

How can I get the ping to work every 2 minutes? Is there anything I need to check/enable in embedded Linux? I am using teraterm, is there a need to write a Macro to make it work?

[EDIT]: I just realised that 360 is 6 minutes. But yeah basically it still doesn't ping again after 6 minutes.

I think the issue here is because it's an embedded linux, normal ping works fine. I am not sure how I can go about and enable the -i option.

1 Answer

360 = 60 * 6 = 6 minutes. Maybe try 120 for 2 minutes?

If your version of ping doesn't support -i, try a shell-script loop and sleep:

while true ; do ping -c1 192.168.1.254 ; sleep 120 ; done

If your version of ping neither supports -i nor -c, find out what options it does support, and edit question with that info.