GE T1000, Technical Manual

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Chapter 10
– Maintenance and Troubleshooting
GE Reason Switches
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network environment. In addition, Ping messages can return if host is reachable,
presenting the round-trip time.
Reason Switches allow using its management IP interface as the originator of a ping
message. Thus, it is possible to verify IP hosts reachability from the switch, doing
basic diagnostics functions in the network.
Ping menu is located at Diagnostics  Ping6.
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IP Address:
This field allows configuring IP address of the host connected to the network in order
to verify if it is reachable by switch or not. IP address must be typed in hexadecimal
format with a colon (“:”) separating each field.
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Ping Length:
Configure the ping length, that is, the payload size of the ping packet. Allowed values
are integer numbers from 2 to 1452 bytes. By default, ping payload size is 56 bytes.

Ping Count:
This field allows configuring how many times ping messages answers and responses
should be performed to the address configured below. Allowed values are integer
numbers from 1 to 60 times. By default, ping is done 5 times.

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).
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Egress Interface:
This field allows specifying which VLAN ID should be used in the egress interface to
be used to send ICMP Ping packets. VLAN allowed values are 1 to 4,095. By default,
this field is empty, which means that Ping6 function will define itself best interface to
be used.
After one of the configurations described before is changed, there is a button that
allows the user to start the diagnostic, as follows.