what does “-m” mean in UNIX ping command

Question

I came across one UNIX ping command as such : $for i in {1..30}; do ping -m $i -c 1 www.website.com; done

What is the meaning of -m here? I have searched online and the only information I could find is that -m stands for "mark" and according to this:

use mark to tag the packets going out. This is useful for variety of reasons within the kernel such as using policy routing to select specific outbound processing.

I do not understand the explanation. I suspect that the command is trying to simulate something similar to traceroute. Can someone explain it in a more understandable way?

Answer 1

It allows you to "mark" the a packet with a 32 bit value that you can later find with 'mark match'.

In your example '$for i in {1..30}; do ping -m $i -c 1 www.website.com; done' they are doing a ping to www.website.com and marking the ping packet with the value given to i. -c 1 means count 1 or ping once.

Reference is HERE