Basic CLI Command Reference
ttl time-to-live — The IP Time To Live (TTL) value to include in the ping request, expressed as
tos type-of-service — The type-of-service (TOS) bits in the IP header of the ping packets,
size bytes — The size in bytes of the ping request packets.
pattern pattern — A 16-bit pattern string to include in the ping packet, expressed as a decimal
source ip-address — The source IP address to use in the ping requests in dotted decimal notation.
interval seconds — The interval in seconds between consecutive ping requests, expressed as a
next-hop ip-address — This option disregards the routing table and will send this packet to the
interface interface-name — Specify the interface name.
bypass-routing — Send the ping request to a host on a directly attached network bypassing the
count requests — The number of ping requests to send to the remote host, expressed as a decimal
do-not-fragment — Specifies that the request frame should not be fragmented. This option is
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a decimal integer.
Values
0 to128
expressed as a decimal integer.
Values
0 to 255
Default
56 bytes (actually 64 bytes because 8 bytes of ICMP header data
are added to the packet)
Values
0 to 65507
integer.
Values
0 to 65535
Default
The IP address of the egress IP interface.
Values
0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255
decimal integer.
Default
1
Values
1 to 10000
specified next hop address. This address must be on an adjacent router that is attached to a
subnet that is common between this and the next-hop router.
Default
Per the routing table.
Values
A valid IP next hop IP address.
routing table. The host must be on a directly attached network or an error is returned.
integer.
Default
5
Values
1 to 10000
particularly useful in combination with the size parameter for maximum MTU determination
(does not apply to ICMPv6).
Basic System Configuration Guide