Help; Ping - NETGEAR FSM726v2 - 10/100 Mbps Managed Switch Setup Manual

700 Series Software Manual v2.1
Once you see the root prompt, you are in CLI mode.
If you have a question on what commands you can use, type a question mark '?' at the prompt. A
list of available commands will be presented to you.
There are five items in the root prompt.
• "Configure" on page 5-13
• "Exit" on page 5-3
• "Help" on page 5-2
• "Ping" on page 5-2
• "Show" on page 5-3
These five items will be covered below.

Help

The help command displays instructions on how to access help on the CLI.
Syntax:
FSM726# Help
FSM726# ?
To access on specific command, you enter a question mark behind the command in
Help
question, then a list of available options will be presented to you. For example, suppose you want
to know the available options to the command cos. You would enter

Ping

The command is used to check network connectivity. It lets you send a small packet to a
ping
particular host. Once the host receives the packet, it will return the packet to its source. The time
the packet takes for this round trip is recorded in milliseconds. If the destination host is not
available, an error message is returned.
Syntax
FSM726# ping <IP address>
6-2
cos ?.
Command Line Interface