GE T1000, Technical Manual

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GE Reason Switches Chapter 10
– Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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Define how many times ping messages answers and responses should be performed
to the address configured. Allowed values are integer numbers from 1 to 60 times. By
default, ping is done 5 times.
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Ping Interval:
This field allows configuring ping interval from each ping message send. Allowed
values are integer numbers from 0 to 30 seconds. By default, ping interval is
performed once a second (value = 1).
After one of the configurations described before is changed, there is a button that
allows the user to start the function, as follows.
o
Start: start the ping messages sending by switch’s IP interface.
1.2 Link OAM
MIB Retrieval menu allows retrieving local or remote MIB variable data on a given
switch’s port.
MIB Retrieval menu is located at Diagnostics  Link OAM  MIB Retrieval.
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Local: select to retrieve local OAM MIB data;
o
Remote: select to retrieve remote OAM MIB data;
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Port: indicates which port of switch should be used to retrieve data.
After one of the configurations described before is changed, click the start button to
run MIB retrieving, as follows.
o
Start: start the MIB retrieving function.
1.3 Ping6
Ping6 menu allows using IPv6 ping messages to do network diagnostics. Ping
messages are ICMP packets that are used to verify if a host is reachable in an IP