Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Manual - Supporting Fabric OS v5.3.0 (53-1000436-01, June 2007)

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portCmd

Examples To verify if packets can be sent to the destination IP address:

switch:admin> portcmd --ping 3/ge0 -s 193.10.2.1 -d 193.10.2.49

Pinging 193.10.2.49 from ip interface 193.10.2.1 on 3/ge0 with 64 bytes of

data

Reply from 193.10.2.49: bytes=64 rtt=0ms ttl=64

Ping Statistics for 193.10.2.49:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Loss = 0 (0 percent loss)

NOTE

You must use --ping action; otherwise, if you use ping without the double-dash (--), a message

displays indicating that ping is deprecated.

To set the path characteristic to source mode on the remote host:

switch:admin> portcmd --ipperf 4/ge0 -s 192.168.100.50 -d 192.168.100.0 -S

ipperf to 192.168.100.40 from IP interface 192.168.100.50 on 4/0:3227

30s: BW:115.67MBps WBW(30s): 56.70MBps Loss(%):0.0 Delay(ms):2 PMTU:1500

NOTE

You must use -- --ipperf; otherwise, if you use ipperf without the double-dash (--), a message

displays indicating that ipperf is deprecated.