BSR 2000 Command Reference Guide | Release 1.0 |
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ping
The Packet Internet Groper (PING) ping command sends an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to a remote host that reports errors and provides information relevant to IP packet addressing.
Use the ping command to check host reach ability and network connectivity, or to confirm basic network connectivity.
Note: The address of the source in an echo message will be the destination of the echo reply message. To form an echo reply message, the source and destination addresses are simply reversed, the type code changed to 0, and the checksum recomputed.
ICMP is used to report problems with delivery of IP datagrams within an IP network. It can also show when a particular node is not responding, when an IP network is not reachable, when a node is overloaded, when an error occurs in the IP header information, etc. The protocol is also frequently used by Internet managers to verify correct operations of nodes and to check that routers are correctly routing packets to the specified destination address.
Group Access
All
Command Mode
User EXEC and Privileged EXEC
Command Line Usage
ping {<A.B.C.D> Hostname}[size
ping docsis {<mac> <prefix>}
Command Syntax
A.B.C.D | IP address of the remote system to ping |
Hostname | name of the remote system to ping |
size | size of the echo message in bytes, |
MGBI |
