EXFO FTB-800 Series for FTB-1 User Manual

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Test Functions

NetBlazer

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Ping & Trace Route

Status: Indicates the status of the attempt as follows:

Status

Description

Successful

Valid ICMP echo reply received.

User Aborted

When a user has manually stopped the ping/trace route function

before the end of attempts.

Time Out

When an ICMP echo reply was not received within the defined

timeout.

Destination
Invalid

With reserved IP addresses:
For IPv4: 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.0, and all addresses above 240.0.0.0 (Class E

and above).
For IPv6: 0::/8 (reserved/unspecified), 0::1/128 (Loopback), FF00::/8

(Multicast).

TTL Expired

(ping test)

When the number of TTL was insufficient to reach the destination

host.

Hop Reached

(trace route test)

When a Time Exceeded message is received from a host while

executing the trace route function.

Destination
Unreachable

For IPv4: When the IP address is unreachable (no default gateway for

an IP address, not in the same subnet, or an ICMP Unreachable

message is received).
For IPv6: When the IP address is unreachable (no default gateway for

an IP address, not in the same subnet, or address resolution failed or

an ICMP Destination Unreachable message is received).

Data Corrupted Parameter problem message is received or data corruption is found

for IPv4.

Discarded

Congestion has been detected and the request cannot be transmitted.

Packet Too Big Packet Too Big message is received in response to a packet that the

router cannot forward because the packet is larger than the MTU of

the outgoing link. It is only applicable for the IPv6 version.

Undefined

For any other errors in ping/trace route that do not fall into one of the

above description.

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