Enabling The Icmp Keepalive Feature; Defining The Icmp Keepalive Parameters - Avaya G450 Manual

Configuring WAN interfaces

Enabling the ICMP keepalive feature

Use the keepalive-icmp command in the context of the interface to enable the ICMP
keepalive feature. Use the no form of this command to deactivate the feature.
The keepalive-icmp command includes the following parameters:
destination ip address. The destination IP address for the keepalive packets.
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next hop MAC address. The next hop MAC address for the keepalive packets. This
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parameter is only relevant for the WAN Fast Ethernet ports.

Defining the ICMP keepalive parameters

Use the following commands to define the ICMP keepalive parameters. For more information
about these commands, see Avaya G450 CLI Reference, 03-300437.
Use the keepalive-icmp timeout command to set the timeout (in seconds) for
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receiving the keepalive response. The default value is 1.
Use the keepalive-icmp success-retries command to set the number of
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consecutive successful keepalive packets necessary to set the interface's keepalive status
as up. The default value is 1.
Use the keepalive-icmp failure-retries command to set the number of
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consecutive failed keepalive packets necessary to set the interface's keepalive status as
down. The default value is 4.
Use the keepalive-icmp interval command to set the interval (in seconds) between
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keepalive packets. The default value is 5.
Use the keepalive-icmp source-address command to set the source IP address of
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the keepalive packets. The default value is the interface's primary IP address.
Enter show keepalive-icmp to display the interface's ICMP keepalive status and
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parameters.
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