Tools; Ping; Trace - D-Link DWR-956M User Manual

Tools

Ping

The Tools menu is used to perform connectivity tests on the DWR-956M. This is
used to perform ping tests. The results are displayed below the ping test options.
Host: The host to send the ICMP message to.
Repeat Number: The number of times to repeat the ping test.
Timeout (milliseconds):
The amount of time to wait before deciding that the ping test has failed.
Packet Size: This size of the ICMP packet.
Protocol Type: The protocol type to perform the ping test using.
This can be IPv4 or IPv6.
WAN Connection: The WAN connection to use for the ping test.
Click Ping to perform the ping test and click Refresh to refresh the page.

Trace

This is used to perform traceroute tests. The results of the test are displayed below
the traceroute test options.
Host: The host to send the ICMP messages to.
Max TTL: The maximum Time to Live (TTL) for the ICMP messages.
The is the maximum number of hops that an ICMP packet
can pass through before the target host being declared unreachable.
This can be from 1 to 128. The default is 30.
Waiting Time: The amount of time to wait before deciding that
the host is not replying to ICMP messages.
WAN Connection: The WAN connection to use for the traceroute.
Click Trace to perform the traceroute and click Refresh to refresh the page
.