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Chapter 8 F Commands
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5 frames sent, 5 frames received, 0 timeouts
Round-trip min/avg/max = 165/270/730 usec
The following example shows the setting of the number of frames to be sent using the count option. The
range is from 0 through 2147483647. A value of 0 will ping forever.
switch# fcping fcid 0xd70000 vsan 1 count 10
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
10 frames sent, 10 frames received, 0 timeouts
Round-trip min/avg/max = 165/270/730 usec
The following example shows the setting of the timeout value. The default period to wait is 5 seconds.
The range is from 1 through 10 seconds.
switch# fcping fcid 0xd500b4 vsan 1 timeout 10
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
28 bytes from
5 frames sent, 5 frames received, 0 timeouts
Round-trip min/avg/max = 340/581/1345 usec
This command shows the
active. This is due to resource exhaustion at the N port or NL port. Retry the command a few seconds
later.
switch# fcping fcid 0x010203 vsan 1
No response from the N port.
switch# fcping pwwn 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd vsan 1
28 bytes from 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd time = 1454 usec
28 bytes from 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd time = 471 usec
28 bytes from 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd time = 372 usec
28 bytes from 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd time = 364 usec
28 bytes from 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:dd time = 1261 usec
5 frames sent, 5 frames received, 0 timeouts
Round-trip min/avg/max = 364/784/1454 usec
The following example displays fcping operation for the device alias of the specified destination.
switch# fcping device-alias x vsan 1
28 bytes from 21:01:00:e0:8b:2e:80:93 time = 358 usec
28 bytes from 21:01:00:e0:8b:2e:80:93 time = 226 usec
28 bytes from 21:01:00:e0:8b:2e:80:93 time = 372 usec
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0xd70000 time = 730 usec
0xd70000 time = 165 usec
0xd70000 time = 262 usec
0xd70000 time = 219 usec
0xd70000 time = 228 usec
0xd70000 time = 230 usec
0xd70000 time = 230 usec
0xd70000 time = 225 usec
0xd70000 time = 229 usec
0xd70000 time = 183 usec
0xd500b4 time = 1345 usec
0xd500b4 time = 417 usec
0xd500b4 time = 340 usec
0xd500b4 time = 451 usec
0xd500b4 time = 356 usec
No response from the N port
message even when the N port or NL port is
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Reference
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