Cisco Cisco Packet Data Interworking Function (PDIF)
Exec Mode Commands (D-S)
ping6 ▀
Command Line Interface Reference, StarOS Release 18 ▄
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ping6
Verifies ability to communicate with a remote node in the network by passing data packets between and measuring the
response. This is accomplished by sending IPv6 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request packets to the
target node (pinging) and waiting for an ICMP response.
response. This is accomplished by sending IPv6 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request packets to the
target node (pinging) and waiting for an ICMP response.
Product
All
Privilege
Security Administrator, Administrator, Operator, Inspector
Mode
Exec
The following prompt is displayed in the Exec mode:
[local]host_name#
Syntax
ping6 { hostname | ipv6_address } [ count num ] [ flood ] [ pattern val ] [ size val ] [
src ip_address ] [ interface string ] [ vrf vrf_name
src ip_address ] [ interface string ] [ vrf vrf_name
host_name
Name of the host to be pinged.
ipv6_address
IPv6 address of host to be pinged in colon-separated-hexadecimal notation.
countnum
Sets the number of ping packets to be sent as an integer from 1 through 10000.
flood
Configures ping6 to send packets as quickly as possible, or 100 per second, whichever is faster.
pattern
val
Specifies the hexadecimal pattern to fill ICMP packets as a hexadecimal number from 0x0 through 0ffff
size
val
Specifies the size of ICMP datagram (in bytes) as an integer from 40 through 18432. Default: 56.
src
ip_address
Specifies the source IP address in IPv4 dotted-decimal or IPv6 colon-separated-hexadecimal notation.
Default: originating system’s IP address
Default: originating system’s IP address
vrf
name
Specifies the name of an existing VFR as an alphanumeric string of 1 through 63 characters.