Motorola Netopia 3342N User Manual

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Administrator’s Handbook

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1

or

low

– Low-level informational messages or greater; includes trivial status messages.

2

or

medium

– Medium-level informational messages or greater; includes status messages that can

help monitor network traffic.

3

or

high

– High-level informational messages or greater; includes status messages that may be signif-

icant but do not constitute errors.

4

or

warning

– Warnings or greater; includes recoverable error conditions and useful operator infor-

mation.

5

or

failure –

Failures; includes messages describing error conditions that may not be recover-

able.

netstat -i

Displays the IP inter faces for your Motorola Netopia® Gateway.

netstat -r

Displays the IP routes stored in your Motorola Netopia® Gateway.

nslookup {

hostname

|

ip_address

}

Per forms a domain name system lookup for a specified host.

The hostname argument is the name of the host for which you want DNS information; for example,

nslookup klaatu

.

The ip_address argument is the IP address, in dotted decimal notation, of the device for which you
want DNS information.

ping [-s

size

] [-c

count

]{

hostname

|

ip_address

}

Causes the Motorola Netopia® Gateway to issue a series of ICMP Echo requests for the device with the
specified name or IP address.

The hostname argument is the name of the device you want to ping; for example,

ping ftp.neto-

pia.com

.

The ip_address argument is the IP address, in dotted decimal notation, of the device you want to
locate. If a host using the specified name or IP address is active, it returns one or more ICMP Echo
replies, confirming that it is accessible from your network.

The

-s

size

argument lets you specify the size of the ICMP packet.

The

-c

count

argument lets you specify the number of ICMP packets generated for the ping request.

Values greater than 250 are truncated to 250.

You can use the

ping

command to determine whether a hostname or IP address is already in use on your

network. You cannot use the

ping

command to ping the Motorola Netopia® Gateway’s own IP address.

quit

Exits the Motorola Netopia® Gateway command line inter face.

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