Administration
Pinging Hosts
Cisco Small Business SG200 Series 8-port Smart Switches Administration Guide
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Pinging Hosts
Use the
Ping
page to send a Ping request from the switch to a specified IP
address. You can use this feature to check whether the switch can communicate
with a particular network host.
To ping a network host:
STEP 1
Click
Administration
>
Ping
in the navigation window.
STEP 2
Select
IPv4
or
IPv6
as the Address Type.
STEP 3
For an IPv4 address, enter the following parameters:
•
IP Address/Hostname
—Enter the IP address or the hostname of the station
you want the switch to ping.
•
Count
—Specify the number of pings to send.
•
Interval
—Specify the number of seconds between pings sent.
•
Datagram Size
—Specify the data size of the ping packet to send.
For an IPv6 address, enter the following parameters:
•
Ping Type
—Select Global to ping an address outside the local subnet.
Select Link Local to ping an address on the local subnet.
•
IPv6 Address/Hostname
—(Global addresses only) Enter the 128-bit global
address.
•
IPv6 Link-Local Address
—(Link-local addresses only) Enter the link local
address if the address is on the same subnet as the switch.
•
Datagram Size
—Specify the data size of the ping packet to send (between
48 and 2048 bytes).
STEP 4
Click
Apply
to send the ping. You can view the status in the Ping window.
