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A – Command Line Interface Ping Command

Ping Command

Initiates an attempt to communicate with another switch over an Ethernet network and reports the result.

Authority

None

 

Syntax

ping [ip_address]

Keywords

[ip_address]

 

The IP address of the switch to query. Broadcast IP addresses, such as

 

255.255.255.255, are not valid.

Examples

The following is an example of a successful Ping command:

 

SANbox

xxxx #> ping 10.20.11.57

 

Ping

command issued. Waiting for response...

 

SANbox

xxxx #>

 

Response successfully received from 10.20.11.57.

 

This following is an example of an unsuccessful Ping command:

 

SANbox

xxxx #> ping 10.20.10.100

 

Ping

command issued. Waiting for response...

No response from 10.20.10.100. Unreachable.

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