User`s guide

Ping Commands
7-18 Using the Administrative Interface
If the host does not respond, the console prompt is printed and no output is added.
Failure to get an echo response from a host may be due to:
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A bad physical connection.
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A non-existent or inactive host.
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Network Unreachable no corresponding entry in the routing table.
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Destination Unreachable the default gateway failed to route the datagram.
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Outdated ARP table information which requires flushing the ARP table with the
del-arp-entry command.
If there is an active ping process due to a previous long ping command and you try to
start a new ping, the command fails and an error message is displayed.
For example, start an endless ping to an unreachable host. No response will be
received. Now try to ping an existing host. The second ping will fail because the first
one is still active. The solution is to use the ping-stop command to stop the first active
ping process.
SYS_console> ping 129.1.1.1 1
SYS_console>
Use CTRL-C or ping-stop to stop the ping process
129.001.001.001 Alive. echo reply: id 297, seq 1, echo-data-len 8
PING process stopped - press <CR> for prompt
SYS_console> ping 129.1.1.88 0
SYS_console> ping 129.1.1.1 1
A ping process is active - can’t start another one
SYS_console> ping-stop
SYS_console> ping 129.1.1.1 1
SYS_console>
Use CTRL-C or ping-stop to stop the ping process
129.001.001.001 Alive. echo reply: id 297, seq 1, echo-data-len 8
PING process stopped - press <CR> for prompt
SYS_console> _
ping-stop
Stops the active ping process. Similar to Ctrl-C.