General Commands

ping

This command sends ICMP echo request packets to another node on the network.

Syntax

ping <host_name ip_address>

host_name - Alias of the host.

ip_address - IP address of the host.

Default Setting

None

Command Mode

Exec

Command Usage

Use the ping command to see if another site on the network can be reached.

The following are some results of the ping command:

Normal response - The normal response occurs in one to ten seconds, depending on network traffic.

Destination does not respond - If the host does not respond, a “timeout” appears in ten seconds.

Destination unreachable - The gateway for this destination indicates that the destination is unreachable.

Network or host unreachable - The gateway found no corresponding entry in the route table.

Press <Esc> to stop pinging.

Example

SMC-AP#ping 10.1.0.19 192.168.1.19 is alive SMC-AP#

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