123.Commissioning verificationThis section contains information about how to verify your commissioningprocedures result in a functional switch.Commissioning verification navigation• “Pinging an IP device” (page 123)• “Using Telnet to log on to the device” (page 124)• “Accessing the switch through the Web interface” (page 124)Pinging an IP devicePing a device to test the connection between the Nortel Ethernet RoutingSwitch 8600 and another network device. After you ping a device, theswitch sends an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet to thetarget device. If the device receives the packet, it sends a ping reply.After the switch receives the reply, a message appears indicating you canreach the specified IP address. If the switch does not receive a reply, themessage indicates the address is not responding.Procedure stepsActionPing an IP network connection by using the following command:ping [scopeid] [datasize ] [count ][-s] [-I] [-t ] [-d] [vrf ]Variable definitionsUse the data in the following table to use the ping command.Variable Valuecount value Specifies the number of times toping (for IPv4) (1–9999).Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600CommissioningNN46205-319 01.01 Standard30 May 2008Copyright © 2008 Nortel Networks.
