Brocade Multi-Service IronWare Administration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) - Manual (Page 218)

200 Multi-Service IronWare Administration Guide
53-1003028-02
Ping
6
The brief keyword causes ping test characters to be displayed. The following ping test characters
are supported:
! Indicates that a reply was received.
. Indicates that the network server timed out while waiting for a reply.
U Indicates that a destination unreachable error PDU was received.
I Indicates that the user interrupted ping.
Executing ping VRF
NOTE
The Ping utilities have been enhanced by adding the ping vrf command in release 02.1.00 to help
with management of Layer 3 VPNs.
The ping vrf command lets you test a specific VPN connection. To use this option, enter the
following command.
Syntax: ping vrf vrf-name ip-address
The vrf-name parameter is the name of the VRF that you want to conduct a ping to.
The ip-address parameter is the IP address containing the VRF that you want to conduct a ping to.
Executing ping IPv6
The ping ipv6 command allows you to verify the connectivity from a device to an IPv6 device by
performing an ICMP for IPv6 echo test. As with IPv4, multiple IPv6 ping commands can be executed
simultaneously by the device.
For example, to ping a device with the IPv6 address of 2001:db8:847f:a385:34dd::45 from the
device, enter the following command.
Brocade# ping ipv6 2001:db8:847f:a385:34dd::45
Syntax: ping ipv6 ipv6-address | host-name | vrf instance-name[outgoing-interface [eth slot/port
| ve number]] [source ipv6-address] [count number] [timeout milliseconds] [ttl number]
[size bytes] [quiet] [numeric] [no-fragment] [verify] [data 1-to-4 byte hex] [brief]
The required parameter is the IPv6 address or the host name of the device. The ipv6-address
parameter specifies the address of the target device. You must specify this address in hexadecimal
using 16-bit values between colons, or specify a host name using an ASCII string.
The vrf instance-name parameter specifies a VPN routing/forwarding instance as the origin of the
ping packets.
The outgoing-interface keyword specifies a physical interface over which you can verify connectivity.
If you specify a physical interface, such as an Ethernet interface, you must also specify the port
number of the interface. If you specify a virtual interface, such as a VE, you must specify the
number associated with the VE.
NOTE
This option is applicable only when the destination IPv6 address is a link local address.
Specify either eth slot/port.