Carrier Access Adit 3000 Series and Multi-Service Router (MSR) Card none - Manual (Page 75)

Adit 3000 (Rel. 1.6) and MSR Card (Rel 2.0) CLI 3-17
Privileged Mode
ping
Use the ping command to send a sequence of ICMP echo request packets to the specified host. If the
host variable is omitted, and you are in Privileged mode, the router prompts you for additional
information. Note: The ping command verifies a connection and is a very important troubleshooting
tool.
Syntax:
# ping { address [-i time] [-l size] [-n count]
[-w timeout]|stop}
Example:
Adit 3500# ping 192.168.1.1
packet #1 has arrived
packet #2 has arrived
packet #3 has arrived
packet #4 has arrived
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received
round-trip min/avg/max = 1/3/9 ms
Example:
Adit 3500# ping 192.168.1.1 -n 2 -l 500
packet #1 has arrived
packet #2 has arrived
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received
round-trip min/avg/max = 2/2/2 ms
Supported Platforms: Adit 3104, Adit 3200, Adit 3500, MSR
Field Definition
address IP address of the host to ping.
-i time Specifies the intervals between pings.
Range is 0 - 600000 milliseconds.
-l size Specifies the size of the ping requests packets to be sent.
Range 64 - 1518.
-n count Specifies the number of ping requests to be sent.
Range 1-1000. Default is 4.
-w timeout Specifies the time to wait for a response before sending the next ping
request packet. Timeout is given in seconds. Range 1-600000. Default
is 2 seconds.
stop Stop the ping process.