Some of the error screens when ping command is used are shown below.
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Routing trouble to the IP address
Figure below shows that routing towards 192.168.2.10 is unavailable. Confirm the trouble part by us-
ing the tracert command.
\TEMP>ping 192.168.2.10
C:
Pinging 192.168.2.10 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.2.10: Destination net unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.2.10: Destination net unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.2.10: Destination net unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.2.10: Destination net unreachable.
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Trouble in routing setting
Figure below indicates the number of hops exceeding the TTL (Time To Live) caused by the invalid
setting of default gateway or subnetmask.
C:\TEMP>ping 192.168.2.10
Pinging 192.168.2.10 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.2.10: TTL expired in transit
Reply from 192.168.2.10: TTL expired in transit
Reply from 192.168.2.10: TTL expired in transit
Reply from 192.168.2.10: TTL expired in transit
Ping statistics for 192.168.2.10:
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Packet Sent=4, Received=4, Lost=0(0% loss)
Minimum=0ms, Maximum=0ms, Average=0ms
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CHAPTER 4
Fault Repair Procedures