Ip Advancedping - 3Com SuperStack II 9300 Command Reference Manual

ip advancedPing

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For CoreBuilder 9000: Applies to Layer 3 switching modules only.
Tries to contact a host with one or more of the advanced ping options.
Valid Minimum Abbreviation
ip advancedP
Important Considerations
When you specify a host name, the host name and its associated IP
address must be configured on a network name server. Also, you must
add the IP address on the name server to the list of name server
addresses that are associated with the network domain name. See "ip
dns domainName" earlier in this chapter for more information.
The option, when enabled, overrides the value set in the
burst
or option.
wait
The option floods the network with Internet Control Message
burst
Protocol (ICMP) echo packets and can cause network congestion. Do
not use the
burst
this option only as a diagnostic tool in a network that has many
routers to determine if one of the routers is not forwarding packets.
For example, you can set a high count value (1000 packets), and then
observe the run lights on the units: the run lights blink rapidly on
routers that are forwarding packets successfully, but remain unlighted,
or blink slowly, on routers that are not forwarding packets successfully.
To interrupt the command, press Enter.
Options
Prompt Description
Host name or Host name or IP address of the
IP address destination that you want to ping.
Number of Number of ICMP echo request
ICMP Request packets that are sent to ping a host.
packets If the destination host does not
respond after it is pinged by the
number of packets that you specify,
the system displays a Host is
Unreachable or Host is not
Responding message.
option during periods of heavy network traffic. Use
ip advancedPing 475
quiet
Possible
Values [Default]
A valid host 0.0.0.0
name
IP address
1 – 9999 3
packets