Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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M4300 Series and M4300-96X Fully Managed Switches User Manual
Ping IPv6
This page is used to send a ping request to a specified host name or IPv6 address. You can
use this to check whether the switch can communicate with a particular IPv6 station. When
you click the Apply button, the switch sends a specified number of ping requests and the
results are displayed below the configurable data. The output displays the following:
Send count=n, Receive count=n from (IPv6 Address). Average round trip
time = n ms.
To use Ping IPv6:
1. Launch a web browser.
2. In the address field of your web browser, enter the IP address of the switch.
The login window opens.
3. Enter the user name and password.
The default admin user name is
admin and the default admin password is blank, that is,
do not enter a password.
4. Click the Login button.
The System Information page displays.
5. Select Maintenance > T
roubleshooting > Ping IPv6.
6. Select the Ping
type from the list.
Possible values are as follows:
• Global. Ping a global IPv6 address.
• Link Local. Ping a link-local IPv6 address over the specified interface.
This field is
shown when Interface is selected as the ping option.
7. Use IPv6 Address/Hostname to enter the IPv6 address or host name of the station for the
switch to ping.
The initial value is blank.
The format is xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx. The
maximum number of characters is 255.
8. Use Count to enter the number of echo requests send.