Ping Commands
If the host does not respond, only statistics are printed. Failure to get an echo response from a host may be due to:
❑A bad physical connection
❑A
❑Network Unreachable: no corresponding entry in the routing table
❑Destination Unreachable: the default gateway failed to route the datagram
❑Outdated ARP table information - flush the ARP table with the
If there is an active ping process due to a previous “long” ping command and you try to start a new ping, the command fails and an error message is displayed.
For example, start an endless ping to an unreachable host. No response will be received. Now try to ping an existing host. The second ping will fail because the first one is still active.The solution is to use the
--host 194.90.136.23 0 unreachable SYS_console>ping 194.90.136.23 0
Use
SYS_console>ping 194.90.136.20 1
A ping process is active - can't start another one
PING process stopped - statistics :
ICMP | echo | requests | : | 35 |
ICMP | echo | responses | : | 0 |
PING process - press <CR> for prompt
SYS_console>
SYS_console>ping 194.90.136.20 1