Stinger®
Administration Guide
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9
Working with IP Traffic
The following TCP/IP information and commands apply to any interface with an IP
address. The Stinger unit maintains an internal IP routing table. You can configure
the system to use RIP to propagate the information in that table to other routers,
receive information from other routers, or both, on any LAN or WAN interface.
TAOS supports commands that are useful for locating the sources of problems on the
network and for communicating with other hosts for management purposes.
For complete information about the commands described in this chapter, see the
Stinger Reference
.
Testing IP connectivity
The
ping
command is useful for verifying that the transmission path between the
Stinger unit and another station is open. Ping sends an ICMP Echo-Request packet to
the specified station. If the station receives the packet, it returns an ICMP Echo-
Response packet. For example, to ping the host
techpubs
:
admin>
ping techpubs
PING techpubs (10.65.212.19): 56 data bytes
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