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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 has timed 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 it sends the next ping.
5. In the Packet Size field, type the number of bytes of data to send with
each ping.
6. In the Traceroute field, specify y (yes) if you want the router to generate a
path report that displays the intervening hop addresses to the
destination.
7. Click on Ping.
VINES Ping Responses
Site Manager displays one of the following messages when you issue a VINES
ping. (If you enter a value other than 0 for Retries, Site Manager displays a
message for the default ping, plus one for each additional ping.)
• An “alive” message appears if the router receives a response from the target
device within the timeout period. The message also indicates the size of the
test packet, for example:
VINES ping: 2705682.8003 is alive (size = 16 bytes)
• A “does not respond” message appears if the address of the target device is
resolved, but the system did not receive a response from the target device
within the timeout period, for example:
VINES ping: 2705682.8003 does not respond
• A target address “is unreachable” message appears if the router cannot find
the specified address in its routing table, for example:
VINES ping: 2705682.8003 is unreachable
• A “resource error” message appears if the router cannot allocate a buffer for
the request because no buffers are available, for example:
VINES ping: resource error