Q-Logic 5802V Manuale Utente

14 – Command Reference

Ping

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Initiates an attempt to communicate with another switch over an Ethernet network 
and reports the result.

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[host_name]
-ipv4 [host_address]
-ipv6 [host_address]

DNS host name of the switch you want to query. [host_name] is a character string 
of 2–125 characters made up of one or more subdomains delimited by periods (.). 
The following naming rules apply:
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Valid characters are alphanumeric characters, period (.), and hyphen (-).

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Each subdomain must be a minimum of two alphanumeric characters.

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Each subdomain must start and end with an alphanumeric character.

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A host name can end with a period (.).

IP address (version 4) or DNS host name of the switch you want to query. 
Broadcast IP addresses, such as 255.255.255.255, are not valid.

IP address (version 6) or DNS host name of the switch you want to query.

The following is an example of a successful Ping command:

SANbox #> ping 10.20.11.57

  Ping command issued. Waiting for response...

SANbox #>

  Response successfully received from 10.20.11.57.

This following is an example of an unsuccessful Ping command:

SANbox #> ping 10.20.11.57

  Ping command issued. Waiting for response...

  No response from 10.20.11.57. Unreachable.