ping

The ping command pings a remote IP address.

Syntax

ping <ip-address> [if-name:vlan] [source-ip]

Arguments

<ip-address> - Enter the IP address of host to ping

<if-name:vlan> - Enter the network interface and vlan that the system must use to send out the ping. The system uses vlan 0 if unspecified. This is an optional argument.

<source-ip> - Enter the source IP address to use. This is an optional argument.

Note:

This command sends ICMP echo messages, and displays:

• minimum round trip time (RTT)
• maximum RTT
• average RTT
• number of packets transmitted
• number of packets received
• percentage of packets lost

  The default ping timeout is 64ms.

Mode

Superuser

Example

ORACLE# ping 100.20.11.30