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ping6

OVERVIEW

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ping (page 367)Related Commands

traceroute6 (page 601)

Usage: ping6 <IPV6-ADDR|hostname>

[repetitions <1-10000>] [timeout <1-60>]

[data-size <0-65471>] [data-ll <0-1024>]

Description: Send IPv6 ping request(s) to a device on the network.

Parameters:

o IPV6-ADDR - IPv6 address of device to ping.

o hostname - Hostname of device to which to send IPv6 ping.

o [repetitions <1-10000>] - Number of times to send ping; the default

value is 1.

o [timeout <1-60>] - Seconds within which a response is required

before the test is considered as failed; the default value is 5.

o [data-size <0-65471>] - Species the size of the data in the ICMP echo

packet; the default value is 0.

o [data-ll <1-10000>] - Species the data pattern to be lled in the

data of the ICMP echo packet; the default pattern is .

Examples:

(1) ProCurve# ping6 80fe::20b:cdff:fedd:9a62

(2) ProCurve# ping6 fe80::5%vlan20

COMMAND STRUCTURE

■ ping6 data-fill -- Ping data fill string (size <0-1024>). (OCTET-STR) (p. 369)

■ ping6 data-size < 0 to 65471 > -- Ping data size <0-65471>. (NUMBER) (p. 370)

■ ping6 host-name -- Hostname of the device to ping. (ASCII-STR) (p. 370)

■ ping6 ipv6-addr -- IPv6 address of device to ping. (IPV6-ADDR) (p. 370)

■ ping6 repetitions < 1 to 10000 > -- Number of packets to send <1-10000>. (NUMBER) (p. 370)

■ ping6 timeout < 1 to 60 > -- Ping timeout in seconds <1-60>. (NUMBER) (p. 370)

COMMAND DETAILS

repetitions (p. 370)host-name (p. 370)data-fill (p. 369)

timeout (p. 370)ipv6-addr (p. 370)data-size (p. 370)

data-fill

■ ping6 data-fill OCTET-STR