Motorola Netopia Administrator's Handbook page 57

log message_string
Adds the message in the
loglevel [ level ]
Displays or modifies the types of log messages you want the Motorola Netopia® Gateway to record. If you enter
loglevel
the command without the optional
rent log level setting.
loglevel
You can enter the
you want to record. All messages with a level number equal to or greater than the level you specify are recorded.
For example, if you specify loglevel 3, the diagnostic log will retain high-level informational messages (level 3),
warnings (level 4), and failure messages (level 5).
Use the following values for the
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1 low
or – Low-level informational messages or greater; includes trivial status messages.
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2 medium
or – Medium-level informational messages or greater; includes status messages that can help
monitor network traffic.
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3 high
or – High-level informational messages or greater; includes status messages that may be significant
but do not constitute errors.
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4 or warning – Warnings or greater; includes recoverable error conditions and useful operator informa-
tion.
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5 failure –
or
netstat -i
Displays the IP interfaces for your Motorola Netopia® Gateway.
netstat -r
Displays the IP routes stored in your Motorola Netopia® Gateway.
nslookup [ hostname | ip_address ]
Performs a domain name system lookup for a specified host.
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The hostname argument is the name of the host for which you want DNS information; for example,
nslookup klaatu
.
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The ip_address argument is the IP address, in dotted decimal notation, of the device for which you want
DNS information.
ping [-s size] [-c count ] [ hostname | ip_address ]
Causes the Motorola Netopia® Gateway to issue a series of ICMP Echo requests for the device with the specified
name or IP address.
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The hostname argument is the name of the device you want to ping; for example,
ping ftp.motorola.com
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The ip_address argument is the IP address, in dotted decimal notation, of the device you want to locate. If
a host using the specified name or IP address is active, it returns one or more ICMP Echo replies, confirming
that it is accessible from your network.
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-s
The size argument lets you specify the size of the ICMP packet.
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-c
The count argument lets you specify the number of ICMP packets generated for the ping request. Values
greater than 250 are truncated to 250.
message_string argument to the Motorola Netopia® Gateway diagnostic log.
level
command with the
argument:
level
Failures; includes messages describing error conditions that may not be recoverable.
.
argument, the command line interface displays the cur-
level argument to specify the types of diagnostic messages
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