Administration
Pinging Hosts
Pinging Hosts
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Cisco Small Business SG200 Series 8-port Smart Switches Administration Guide
Use the Ping page to send a Ping request from the switch to a specified IP
address. You can use this feature to check whether the switch can communicate
with a particular network host.
To ping a network host:
Click Administration > Ping in the navigation window.
Select IPv4 or IPv6 as the Address Type.
For an IPv4 address, enter the following parameters:
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IP Address/Hostname—Enter the IP address or the hostname of the station
you want the switch to ping.
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Count—Specify the number of pings to send.
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Interval—Specify the number of seconds between pings sent.
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Datagram Size—Specify the data size of the ping packet to send.
For an IPv6 address, enter the following parameters:
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Ping Type—Select Global to ping an address outside the local subnet.
Select Link Local to ping an address on the local subnet.
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IPv6 Address/Hostname—(Global addresses only) Enter the 128-bit global
address.
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IPv6 Link-Local Address—(Link-local addresses only) Enter the link local
address if the address is on the same subnet as the switch.
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Datagram Size—Specify the data size of the ping packet to send (between
48 and 2048 bytes).
Click Apply to send the ping. You can view the status in the Ping window.
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