packet_count — 0 - 65535

time_out — 50 - 65535

Command Mode

EXEC

Default value

This command has no default setting.

Usage Guidelines

Press Esc to stop pinging. Following are sample results of the ping command:

Destination does not respond-If the host does not respond, a "no answer from host" appears in ten seconds.

Destination unreachable-The gateway for this destination indicates that the destination is unreachable. Network or host unreachable-The switch found no corresponding entry in the route table.

Examples

Console> ping 10.1.1.1

Pinging 10.1.1.1 with 64 bytes of data:

64bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0. time=11 ms

64bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1. time=8 ms

64bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2. time=8 ms

64bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3. time=7 ms

----10.1.1.1 PING Statistics----

4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 7/8/11

Console> ping yahoo.com

Pinging yahoo.com [66.218.71.198] with 64 bytes of data:

64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0. time=11 ms

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