System Management; Ping - Planet Networking & Communication WGSD-1022 User Manual

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Username: bob
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5.23 System Management

5.23.1 ping

The ping user EXEC command sends ICMP echo request packets to another node on the network.
Syntax
ping ip-address | hostname [size packet_size] [count packet_count] [timeout time_out]
ip-address — IP address to ping. An out-of-band IP address can be specified as described in the
usage guidelines.
hostname — hostname to ping (Range: 1 - 160 characters)
packet_size — Number of bytes in a packet. The actual packet size is eight bytes larger than the
size specified because the switch adds header information.(Range: 57 - 1472 bytes)
packet_count — Number of packets to send. If 0 is entered it pings until stopped. (Range: 1 -
65535 packets)
time_out — Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply. (Range: 1 - 65535 milliseconds
Default Configuration
The default packet size is 56 bytes.
The default packet count is 4 packets.
The default time-out is 1,000 milliseconds.
Command Mode
User EXEC mode
User Guidelines
Press Esc to stop pinging. Following are sample results of the ping command:
Destination does not respond—If the host does not respond, a "no answer from host" message appears
in 10 seconds.
Destination unreachable—The gateway for this destination indicates that the destination is unreachable.
Network or host unreachable—The switch found no corresponding entry in the route table.
To ping an out-of-band IP address, use the out-of-band IP address format — oob/ip-address.