As per the answer to ping statistics time meaning
The
time
statistic is the total time spent sending and receiving echo packets, including the delay between each packet
However, my time
result is much shorter. What gives?
$ ping 8.8.8.8 -c 10
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=31.10 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=32.7 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=33.0 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=36.8 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=40.5 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=53 time=50.3 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=7 ttl=53 time=34.4 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=8 ttl=53 time=146 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=9 ttl=53 time=30.9 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10 ttl=53 time=123 ms
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 21ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 30.910/55.950/146.332/39.970 ms
Why does it show 21ms at the end?