Ping more than 56 bytes on macOS

Question

I am on macOS and using terminal to ping. How would I be able to ping more than 56 bytes? I tried to search but was not able to find the answer.

Answer 1

ping -s size host

ping -s 1472 target.example.com

I gave 1472 as an example because with typical header lengths, that creates a single full-size packet without fragmentation.

For more information about the ping(1) command's options, view its manual page with the command man ping in the terminal.