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Using Technician Interface Software
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IP Ping
When you issue the
ping
command for IP, the ping program sends an Internet
Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to the remote IP address you
specify. The remote device responds if it can be reached, and the console displays
the response or the result of the request.
Enter the following to ping a remote device running IP:
ping -ip
<IP_address> [
-t
<timeout> ] [
-r
<repeat_count> ] [
-s
<size> ] [
-p
]
[
-a
<address> ] [
-v
]
<IP_address> is the required IP address, in dotted-decimal notation, of the
remote device.
[
-t
<timeout> ] [
-r
<repeat_count> ] [
-s
<size> ] [
-p
] [-a <address> ] [
-v
] are
optional. These parameters are as follows:
<timeout> is the number of seconds for each ping to time out. If the system
receives a response to a ping after it has timed out, the system does not send an
alive
message to the console. The default is 5.
<repeat_count> is the number of ping messages to send. Enter a value from 0 to
10. The default is 1.
<size> is the number of bytes of data to send with each ping. The default is 16.
-p
generates a path trace report that displays the intervening hop addresses to the
destination and the time that it took to reach them.
<address> is the source address.
-v
(verbose) generates statistical information about the ICMP echo request,
including information about the success rate and round-trip time.
Note:
Our implementation of the ICMP protocol does not support loopback
(pinging your own system) or broadcast addresses.