GE Reason Switches
Industrial Managed Ethernet Switch
Chapter 10: Maintenance and
Troubleshooting
1 Network Diagnostics
1.1 Ping
Ping menu allows using the IPv4 Ping messages to do network diagnostics. Ping
messages are ICMP packets that are used to verify if a host is reachable in the IP
network environment. In addition, Ping messages can return if host is reachable,
presenting the round-trip time.
Reason Switches allow using its management IP interface as the originator of a ping
message. Thus, it is possible to verify IP hosts reachability from the switch, doing
basic diagnostics functions in the network.
Ping menu is located at Diagnostics
Ping.
IP Address:
This field allows configuring IP address of a host connected to the network in order to
verify if it is reachable by switch or not. IP address must be typed in decimal dotted
format.
Ping Length:
Configure ping length, that is, the payload size of the ping packet. Allowed values are
integer numbers from 2 to 1452 bytes. By default, ping payload size is 56 bytes.
Ping Count:
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