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Chapter 3 CLI Commands

ping

To send echo packets for diagnosing basic network connectivity on networks, use the ping EXEC

command.

ping {hostname | ip-address}

Syntax Description

Defaults No default behavior or values.

Command Modes EXEC

Device Modes application-accelerator

central-manager

Usage Guidelines To use the ping command with the hostname argument, make sure that DNS functionality is configured

on the WAAS device. To force the timeout of a nonresponsive host, or to eliminate a loop cycle, press

Ctrl-C.

Examples The following example shows how to send echo packets to a machine with address 172.19.131.189 to

verify its availability on the network:

WAE# ping 172.19.131.189

PING 172.19.131.189 (172.19.131.189) from 10.1.1.21 : 56(84) bytes of

data.

64 bytes from 172.19.131.189: icmp_seq=0 ttl=249 time=613 usec

64 bytes from 172.19.131.189: icmp_seq=1 ttl=249 time=485 usec

64 bytes from 172.19.131.189: icmp_seq=2 ttl=249 time=494 usec

64 bytes from 172.19.131.189: icmp_seq=3 ttl=249 time=510 usec

64 bytes from 172.19.131.189: icmp_seq=4 ttl=249 time=493 usec

--- 172.19.131.189 ping statistics ---

5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.485/0.519/0.613/0.047 ms

WAE#

hostname Hostname of system to ping.

ip-address IP address of system to ping.