Basic CLI Command Reference
74 Basic System Configuration Guide
ttl time-to-live — The IP Time To Live (TTL) value to include in the ping request, expressed as
a decimal integer.
Values 0 to128
tos type-of-service — The type-of-service (TOS) bits in the IP header of the ping packets,
expressed as a decimal integer.
Values 0 to 255
size bytes — The size in bytes of the ping request packets.
Default 56 bytes (actually 64 bytes because 8 bytes of ICMP header data
are added to the packet)
Values 0 to 65507
pattern pattern — A 16-bit pattern string to include in the ping packet, expressed as a decimal
integer.
Values 0 to 65535
source ip-address — The source IP address to use in the ping requests in dotted decimal notation.
Default The IP address of the egress IP interface.
Values 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255
interval seconds — The interval in seconds between consecutive ping requests, expressed as a
decimal integer.
Default 1
Values 1 to 10000
next-hop ip-address — This option disregards the routing table and will send this packet to the
specified next hop address. This address must be on an adjacent router that is attached to a
subnet that is common between this and the next-hop router.
Default Per the routing table.
Values A valid IP next hop IP address.
interface interface-name — Specify the interface name.
bypass-routing — Send the ping request to a host on a directly attached network bypassing the
routing table. The host must be on a directly attached network or an error is returned.
count requests — The number of ping requests to send to the remote host, expressed as a decimal
integer.
Default 5
Values 1 to 10000
do-not-fragment — Specifies that the request frame should not be fragmented. This option is
particularly useful in combination with the size parameter for maximum MTU determination
(does not apply to ICMPv6).
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