Command Line Interface Guide

1724 System Management Commands
ping
Use the ping command in User EXEC mode to check the accessibility of the
desired node on the network.
Syntax
ping [ ip | ipv6 ] ipaddress | hostname [ repeat count ] [ timeout interval ] [
size
size ]
• ipaddress — IP address to ping (contact).
•
hostname — Hostname to ping (contact). (Range: 1–158 characters). The
command allows spaces in the host name when specified in double quotes,
even though host names may only consist of letters, numbers and the
hyphen character.
•
count — Number of packets to send (Range: 1–15 packets).
•
interval — The time between Echo Requests, in seconds (Range: 1–60
seconds).
•
size — Number of data bytes in a packet (Range: 0–65507 bytes).
Default Configuration
The default count is 4.
The default interval is 3 seconds.
The default size is 0 data bytes.
Command Mode
User EXEC mode, Privileged EXEC mode
User Guidelines
The local VRRP IP address is not pingable.
Examples
The following example displays a ping to IP address 10.27.65.60
console#ping 10.27.65.60
Pinging 10.27.65.60 with 0 bytes of data:
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