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Configuring and Managing Routers with Site Manager

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3. In the Timeout ﬁeld, type the number of seconds after which each ping

times out.

If the router receives a response to a ping after it times out, it does not send an

“alive” message to Site Manager.

4. In the Retries ﬁeld, type the number of successive times the router should

repeat the ping.

The router does not wait for the timeout before sending the next ping.

5. Click on Ping.

IPX Ping Responses

Site Manager displays one of the following messages when you issue an IPX ping.

(If you enter a value other than 0 for Retries, Site Manager displays one of the

following messages for the default ping, plus one for each additional ping.)

• A target address “is unreachable” message appears if the router cannot ﬁnd

the speciﬁed network address in its table of IPX networks, for example:

IPX ping: 0xAB12.CD1234 is unreachable

• An “alive” message appears if the router receives an IPX reply packet from

the target device within the timeout period, for example:

IPX ping: 0xAB12.CD1234 is alive

• A “does not respond” message appears if the IPX address of the target device

is resolved, but the router does not receive an IPX reply packet from the target

device within the timeout period, for example:

IPX ping: 0xAB12.CD1234 does not respond

• An “invalid parameter specified” message appears if the network or host

address is all 0s, all Fs, or not a valid IPX address, for example:

IPX ping: invalid parameter specified

• A “resource error” message appears if the router cannot allocate a buffer for

the request because no buffers are available, for example:

IPX ping: resource error