Command Manual – System Management 
Quidway S8500 Series Routing Switches  Chapter 4  System Maintenance Commands
 
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Perform ping command to troubleshoot the network connection and line quality. The 
output information includes: 
z  Responses to each of the ECHO-REQUEST messages. If the response message 
is not received until timeout, output "Request time out". Or display response 
message bytes, packet sequence number, TTL and response time. 
z  The final statistics, including number of sent packets, number of response packets 
received, percentage of non-response packets and minimal/maximum/average 
value of response time. 
If the network transmission rate is too low, you can increase the response message 
timeout. 
Related command: tracert. 
Example 
# Check whether the host 202.38.160.244 is reachable. 
<Quidway> ping 202.38.160.244 
ping 202.38.160.244 : 56 data bytes 
Reply from 202.38.160.244 : bytes=56 sequence=1 ttl=255 time = 1ms 
Reply from 202.38.160.244 : bytes=56 sequence=2 ttl=255 time = 2ms 
Reply from 202.38.160.244 : bytes=56 sequence=3 ttl=255 time = 1ms 
Reply from 202.38.160.244 : bytes=56 sequence=4 ttl=255 time = 3ms 
Reply from 202.38.160.244 : bytes=56 sequence=5 ttl=255 time = 2ms 
--202.38.160.244 ping statistics-- 
5 packets transmitted 
5 packets received 
0% packet loss 
round-trip min/avg/max = 1/2/3 ms 
4.5.2  tracert 
Syntax 
tracert [ -a  source-IP  |  -f  first-TTL  |  -m  max-TTL | -p  port | -q  num-packet | 
-vpn-instance vpn-instance-name | -w timeout ] string 
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Parameter 
-a source-IP: Configures the source IP address used by tracert command;  
-f: Configures to verify the -f switch, first-TTL specifies an initial TTL, ranging from 0 to 
the maximum TTL.first-TTL defaults to 1;