How to ping or traceroute from Synology

Sometimes you need to network troubleshoot such as ping or traceroute from Synology.

You can do that and please follow these steps:

  • Activated SSH Services on menu Control Panel – Terminal & SNMP :
Enable SSH Service Synology for ping, traceroute, etc
Enable SSH Service on Synology
  • Connect SSH to Synology
  • In terminal, type “sudo ping ip address” and then enter password for ping to the specified ip address
  • In terminal, type “sudo traceroute ip address” and then enter password for traceroute to the specified ip address

Sources :
https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/1/post/132577