Troubleshooting Guide

L2Ping field descriptions
Use the data in the following table to use the L2Ping tab.
Name Description
VlanId Identifies the backbone VLAN.
DestMacAddress Specifies the target MAC address.
HostName Specifies the target host name.
DestIsHostName Indicates whether the host name is (true) or is not
(false) used for L2Ping transmission.
Messages Specifies the number of L2Ping messages to be
transmitted. The default is 1.
Status Specifies the status of the transmit loopback service:
• ready: the service is available.
• transmit: the service is transmitting, or about to
transmit, the L2Ping messages.
• abort: the service aborted or is about to abort the
L2Ping messages.
This field is also used to avoid concurrency or race
condition problems that can occur if two or more
management entities try to use the service at the
same time.
The default is ready.
ResultOk Indicates the result of the operation:
• true: the L2Ping Messages will be (or have been)
sent.
• false: the L2Ping Messages will not be sent.
The default is true.
Priority Specifies a 3–bit value to be used in the VLAN
header, if present in the transmitted frame.
The default is 7.
TimeoutInt Specifies the interval to wait for an L2Ping time-out.
The default value is 3 seconds.
TestPattern Specifies the test pattern to use in the L2Ping PDU:
• allZero: null signal without cyclic redundancy check
• allZeroCrc: null signal with cyclic redundancy
check with 32-bit polynomial
• pseudoRandomBitSequence: pseudo-random-bit-
sequence without cyclic redundancy check
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