Avaya Media Gateway G250, Administration Manual

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ICMP keepalive
Issue 5 June 2008 315
Enabling the ICMP keepalive feature
Use the
keepalive-icmp
command in the context of the interface to enable the ICMP
keepalive feature. Use the
no
form of this command to deactivate the feature.
The
keepalive-icmp
command includes the following parameters:
● destination ip address
. The destination IP address for the keepalive packets.
●
next hop MAC address
. The next hop MAC address for the keepalive packets. This
parameter is only relevant for the WAN Fast Ethernet port.
Defining the ICMP keepalive parameters
Use the following commands to define the ICMP keepalive parameters. For more information
about these commands, see
Avaya G250 and Avaya G350 CLI Reference , 03-300437.
●
Use the
keepalive-icmp timeout
command to set the timeout (in seconds) for
receiving the keepalive response. The default value is 1.
●
Use the
keepalive-icmp success-retries
command to set the number of
consecutive successful keepalive packets necessary to set the interface’s keepalive status
as up. The default value is 1.
●
Use the
keepalive-icmp failure-retries
command to set the number of
consecutive failed keepalive packets necessary to set the interface’s keepalive status as
down. The default value is 4.
●
Use the
keepalive-icmp interval
command to set the interval (in seconds) between
keepalive packets. The default value is 5.
●
Use the
keepalive-icmp source-address
command to set the source IP address of
the keepalive packets. The default value is the interface’s primary IP address.
●
Enter
show keepalive-icmp
to display the interface’s ICMP keepalive status and
parameters.