Chapter 10: Maintenance And Troubleshooting - GE T1000 Technical Manual

GE Reason Switches
1.2 Link OAM
1.3 Ping6
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Define how many times ping messages answers and responses should be performed
to the address configured. Allowed values are integer numbers from 1 to 60 times. By
default, ping is done 5 times.
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Ping Interval:
This field allows configuring ping interval from each ping message send. Allowed
values are integer numbers from 0 to 30 seconds. By default, ping interval is
performed once a second (value = 1).
After one of the configurations described before is changed, there is a button that
allows the user to start the function, as follows.
Start: start the ping messages sending by switch's IP interface.
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MIB Retrieval menu allows retrieving local or remote MIB variable data on a given
switch's port.
MIB Retrieval menu is located at Diagnostics
Local: select to retrieve local OAM MIB data;
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Remote: select to retrieve remote OAM MIB data;
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Port: indicates which port of switch should be used to retrieve data.
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After one of the configurations described before is changed, click the start button to
run MIB retrieving, as follows.
Start: start the MIB retrieving function.
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Ping6 menu allows using IPv6 ping messages to do network diagnostics. Ping
messages are ICMP packets that are used to verify if a host is reachable in an IP
Chapter 10 – Maintenance and Troubleshooting
 Link OAM
REASON SWITCHES-TM-EN-3
 MIB Retrieval.