Quick Reference Guide

System Management Commands 1689
Command Mode
Stack Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
Nonstop forwarding allows the forwarding plane of stack units to continue to
forward packets while the control and management planes restart as a result
of a power failure, hardware failure, or software fault on the stack
management unit.
Example
console(config)#nsf
ping
Use the ping command in User EXEC mode to check the accessibility of the
desired node on the network.
Syntax
ping [ ip | ipv6 ] ipaddress | hostname [ repeat count ] [ timeout interval ] [
size
size | source sourceaddress | loopback loopbackaddress |vlan vlanid |
tunnel
tunnelid | out-of-band]
ping ipv6 interface { loopback
loopbackaddress | out-of-band | vlan vlanid |
tunnel
tunnelid } ipaddress [repeat count ] | [timeout interval ] | [size size ] |
[source {
sourceaddress | loopback loopbackaddress | vlan vlanid | tunnel
tunnelid | out-of-band}]
• ipaddress — IPv4 or IPv6 address to ping (contact).
•
hostname — Hostname to ping (contact). (Range: 1–158 characters). The
command allows spaces in the host name when specified in double quotes,
even though host names may only consist of letters, numbers and the
hyphen character.
•
count — Number of packets to send (Range: 1–15 packets).
•
interval — The time between Echo Requests, in seconds (Range: 1–60
seconds).
•
size — Number of data bytes in a packet (Range: 0–13000 bytes).
•
sourceaddress — The source IPv5 or IPv6 address for the ping.
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