Dell PowerConnect 6024, Command Line Interface Reference Manual

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System Management
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System Management
ping
The ping user EXEC command sends ICMP echo request packets to another node on the network.
Syntax
ping host [ size packet_size ] [ count packet_count ] [ timeout time_out ] st
• host —IP address being contacted.
• packet_size —Number of bytes in a packet, from 56 to 1,472 bytes. The actual packet size
is eight bytes larger than the size specified because the switch adds header information.
• packet_count —Number of packets to send, from 1 to 65,535 packets. If 0 is entered it
pings until stopped.
•
time_out
—Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply, from 1 to 65,535 milliseconds.
Default Configuration
The default packet size is 56 bytes.
The default packet count is 4 packets.
The default time-out is 1,000 milliseconds.
Command Mode
User EXEC mode
User Guidelines
Press Ctrl-C to stop pinging. Following are sample results of the ping command:
• Destination does not respond —If the host does not respond, a “
no answer from
hos t
” message appears in 10 seconds.
• Destination unreachable —The gateway for this destination indicates that the destination
is unreachable.
• Network or host unreachable —The switch found no corresponding entry in the route
table.
To ping an out-of-band IP address, use the out-of-band IP address format — oob/ip-address .