Command: Ping - Dell PowerConnect 2808 User Manual

prefix-length
• —Range: 8-30
ip-address
• default-gateway
Defaults
No IP address is defined for interfaces
Command Modes
Interface Configuration VLAN mode.
User Guidelines
• Assigning an IP address to an interface does not disable L2 protocols, such as STP.
• Defining a static IP address on an interface implicitly removes the DHCP client configuration on the
interface.
• Interface context may be VLAN 1 only
Examples
switch(config)> interface vlan 1
switch(config-if)> ip address 131.108.1.27 255.255.255.0 default-gateway
131.108.1.1

Command: ping

Use the ping command to send ICMP echo request packets to another node on the network.
ip-address hostname
ping { |
Syntax Description
ip-address
• — IP address to ping.
• hostname — Hostname to ping.
packet_size —
• Number of bytes in a packet. The default is 56 bytes. The actual packet size will be
eight bytes larger than the size specified because the switch adds header information.
packet_count
• — Number of packets to send, from 1 to 65535 packets. The default is 4 packets. If 0 is
entered it pings until stopped.
time_out
• — Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply, from 50 to 65535 milliseconds. The default
is 2000 milliseconds.
Parameters range
hostname
• — 1 - 158 characters (Max label size: 63)
packet_size
• — IPv4: 56 - 1472
—Valid IP address
packet_size
} [size ] [count
packet_count
] [timeout
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time_out
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