Motorola BSR 64000, Reference Manual

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IP Commands
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ping
The Packet Internet Groper (PING) ping command sends an Internet Control
Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to a remote host that reports errors and
provides information relevant to IP packet addressing.
Use the ping command to check host reach ability and network connectivity, or to
confirm basic network connectivity.
Group Access
All
Command Mode
User EXEC and Privileged EXEC
Command Line Usage
ping {<hostname> | <ip-address>}[size <num:1-165535] [<num:1-165535>]
[timeout <num:1-1024>] [source <ip-address>] [df]
Command Syntax
Note: The address of the source in an echo message will be the destination
of the echo reply message. To form an echo reply message, the source and
destination addresses are simply reversed, the type code changed to 0, and
the checksum recomputed.
ICMP is used to report problems with delivery of IP datagrams within an IP
network. It can also show when a particular node is not responding, when an
IP network is not reachable, when a node is overloaded, when an error
occurs in the IP header information, etc. The protocol is also frequently used
by Internet managers to verify correct operations of nodes and to check that
routers are correctly routing packets to the specified destination address.
hostname name of the remote system to ping
ip-address IP address of the remote system to ping