EXFO FTB/IQS-85100G Packet Blazer for FTB-500/IQS-600 User Manual
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Test Functions
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Ping & Trace Route
Status: Indicates the status of the attempt as follows:
Status
Description
Successful
Valid ICMP echo reply received.
User Aborted
When a user has manually stopped the ping/trace route function before the end of
attempts.
Time Out
When an ICMP echo reply was not received within the defined timeout.
Destination Invalid With reserved IP addresses:
For IPv4: 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.0, and all addresses above 240.0.0.0 (Class E and above).
For IPv6: 0::/8 (reserved/unspecified), 0::1/128 (Loopback), FF00::/8 (Multicast).
TTL Expired (ping
test)
When the number of TTL was insufficient to reach the destination host.
Hop Reached
(trace route test)
When a Time Exceeded message is received from a host while executing the trace route
function.
Destination
Unreachable
For IPv4: When the IP address is unreachable (no default gateway for an IP address, not
in the same subnet, or an ICMP Unreachable message is received).
For IPv6: When the IP address is unreachable (no default gateway for an IP address, not
in the same subnet, or address resolution failed or an ICMP Destination Unreachable
message is received).
Data Corrupted
Parameter problem message is received or data corruption is found for IPv4.
Discarded
Congestion has been detected and the request cannot be transmitted.
Packet Too Big
Packet Too Big message is received in response to a packet that the router cannot
forward because the packet is larger than the MTU of the outgoing link. It is only
applicable for the IPv6 version.
Undefined
For any other errors in ping/trace route that do not fall into one of the above
description.