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40 Avaya IR R2.0 Troubleshooting
Pinging server connections The ping command indicates whether a remote host can be reached. It can also display
statistics about packet loss and delivery time.
The ping command is available through the Solaris operating system. Use it with the
attributes shown in the table that follows.
Attribute Function
-d Set the SO_DEBUG socket option.
-l Send the packet to the given host and back again.
-L Turn off loopback of multicast packets.
-n Display the network addresses as numbers.
-r Bypass the normal routing tables and send directly to a host on an attached network.
-R Set the IP record route option and store the route of the packet inside the IP header.
-v List any ICMP packets, other than ECHO_RESPONSE, that are received.
-i Specify the outgoing interface to use for multicast packets.
-I Specify the interval between successive transmissions.
-t ttl Specify the IP time to live for multicast packets.
The Sun Solaris operating system provides Watch-Net and Watch Net-All diagnostics that
monitor Ethernet packets to identify good packets and packets with errors. Refer to the
service manual for your platform:
• Sun Fire V210 and V240 Servers Administration Guide
�� Sun Fire 280R Server Service Manual
• Sun Blade 150 Service Manual
These documents are available in Avaya IR System Help (under "Print documents") or from
the Sun Web site (http://www.sun.com).
LAN trace utilities help you to understand how LAN communications are operating and
identify problems. Although, the LAN trace utilities have the following disadvantages, they are
still very helpful:
• Only traffic on the subnet to which the IR system is attached can be traced.