180CHAPTER 5: OUT-OF-BAND MANAGEMENT

 

 

Possible

 

Prompt

Description

Values

[Default]

 

 

 

 

Packet size

Number of bytes in each ICMP echo

28 – 4096

64

 

request packet. The packet size

bytes

 

 

includes both the IP and the ICMP

 

 

 

headers.

 

 

Burst Transmit

When enabled, sends out the

Ping mode

ICMP echo request packets as rapidly

 

as possible. The system displays a

 

period (.) upon receiving an ICMP

 

echo replay packet. Use this display

 

to determine how many packets are

 

being dropped during the burst. This

 

is unique to the Burst option.

disabled disabled

enabled

Quiet mode

How much packet information the

 

system displays after a ping. When

 

enabled, the system displays

 

information about the number of

 

packets that the system sent and

 

received, any loss of packets, and the

 

average time that it took a packet to

 

travel to and from the host. When

 

disabled, the system displays

 

more detailed status information

 

about each ICMP echo request

 

packet.

disabled disabled

enabled

Time between

Number of seconds that the system

sending each

waits before it sends out successive

packet (wait)

ICMP echo request packets. Set this

 

option to a high value if network

 

traffic is heavy and you do not want

 

to add to the network traffic with

 

pings in fast succession.

ICMP

Forces the source address of the

sourceAddress

ICMP packets to be something other

 

than the IP address of the interface

 

from which the packet originated.

 

You can use this option if you have

 

more than one IP interface defined.

Interface index

Index number of the ICMP source IP

 

address that you want to use.

1 – 20

1

seconds

 

n (no)

y

y (yes)

Currently

0 (the

defined

router

interfaces

picks the

and their

best

indexes

interface)

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