PING

Purpose

Use at the server console to send an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request packet to an IP node on your internetwork.

PING determines whether an IP node is reachable on your internetwork.

Syntax

[LOAD] PING

Using PING

• PING sends an ICMP echo request packet to an IP node on your internetwork. If the target node receives the packet, it sends back a reply packet.
• To select an IP node, enter its hostname or IP address in the Host Name field.

  You can also specify the number of seconds between each packet transmission and the size of the packet, in bytes.

• To start sending packets, press Esc. The sending node continues to send request packets and collect response time statistics until you press Esc again to exit PING.
• To select additional IP nodes, press Insert. Enter the hostname or IP address of the node in the Host Name field. Press Esc to start sending packets.