Extended Ping :D

I was just trying the sample scenario in the new packet tracer 5.2 from Cisco and I found a point where it tells you to use extended ping to choose the source IP address which will do the ping, i didn’t know how to do that, i tried using the ? to see the command i only found ping command so i tried #ping ? it showed only that i need to put an IP or host to ping i did that and used the ? after it and nothing appeared 😀 so i search for extended ping and found 2 site, 1 is explaining how to use it and also how to use the extended trace command,

and the other was Cisco document which is complicated and so scientific so i read the easy one 😛

I wanted to share the link with you to add this info to your other infos, sure it will become handy at a time 😉

here are the links

This one is from Tech Republic, which is a great site full of tips and infos about everything related to IT

Tech Republic

The other one is a pdf file from Cisco site

Cisco

and for those who are too lazy to open the links here is a small explanation and how to use extended PING

1st you type the command

#ping

and then enter 😀 that’s it, it will prompt for all of the options you can use in the extended ping

so follow these steps and whenever you find a weird step just leave it empty and click enter and the default value (which is shown between the [] ) will be chosen and then continue 😀

just be sure to answer this

Extended commands [n]: Y

type y so that you use the extended commands , if you just clicked enter it will load the default answer which is as shown between the [] is n meaning NO 😀

Here are all the steps

Router# ping

Protocol [ip]:

Target IP address: 1.1.1.1

Repeat count [5]: 10

Datagram size [100]:

Timeout in seconds [2]:

Extended commands [n]: y

Source address or interface: 2.2.2.2

Type of service [0]:

Set DF bit in IP header? [no]:

Validate reply data? [no]:

Data pattern [0xABCD]:

Loose, Strict, Record, Timestamp, Verbose[none]:

Sweep range of sizes [n]:

Type escape sequence to abort.

The empty steps means the default value was chosen

Hope that helps…

~ by Network Techs. on September 2, 2009.