Junior Science Refresher this is science magazine in india published this article page no 46 I often tell CCNA and CCNP candidates that you do your best learning when you screw something up. I often get a funny look right after I say that but the only way to develop your Cisco troubleshooting skills - the skills youll need to pass your Intro ICND and CCNP exams - is by actually fixing configurations. Since your employer will take a dim view of you practicing these skills on his or her network you better do so on your home lab! Three essential tools for networking and CCNA/CCNP exam success are ping extended ping and traceroute. Today were going to take a look at the ping that were used to using for LAN issues and the extended ping. Were all familiar with basic ping where you use the ping command followed by the IP address you want to confirm IP connectivity with. When youve got connectivity you will see five exclamation points as seen here: R1#ping 172.12.123.2 Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5 100-byte ICMP Echos to 172.12.123.2 timeout is 2 seconds: !!!!! Success rate is 100 percent (5/5) round-trip min/avg/max = 68/68/72 ms The default source IP address for ping is the IP address closest to the destination IP address. Other defaults - five ICMP packets will be sent (thats why you see five exclamation points) and theyre sent two seconds apart. Thats fine for many basic situations but as you progress through your networking career and most advanced scenarios in your CCNA / CCNP studies you will want to change some of these defaults. What could you do if you wanted to send 10000 pings What if you needed your routers loopback address to be the source IP address for the pings What if you wanted to send them five seconds apart instead of two Thats where extended ping comes in. To use extended ping just type ping and hit enter. (Note that you cannot use extended ping in user exec mode - you must be in enable mode to do so.) R1>ping % Incomplete command. incomplete command indicates that the router is waiting for an IP address; you cant use extended ping in user exec mode. R1>enable R1#ping Protocol [ip]: Target IP address: 172.16.123.1 Repeat count [5]: 1000 Datagram size [100]: Timeout in seconds [2]: Extended commands [n]: y Source address or interface: loopback0 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. Sending 1000 100-byte ICMP Echos to 172.16.123.1 timeout is 2 seconds: Packet sent with a source address of 1.1.1.1 ....................................... In this example I sent 1000 ICMP packets to an address that doesnt exist so I am getting periods instead of exclamation points. This illustration shows you the many options you have with extended ping. Now that Ive sent those 1000 pings lets say that I want to stop that process. At the beginning of the basic ping output you see this phrase: Type escape sequence to abort. This escape sequence works for ping extended ping and traceroute. Funny thing though - Cisco doesnt tell you what the escape sequence is! One day this will really come in handy. The escape sequence is <CTRL-SHIFT-6> TWICE in rapid succession. After I used it in this example the pings stopped and I got this message: Success rate is 0 percent (0/192) The ping stopped after 192 ICMP packets were sent. This keystroke takes a little practice so practice it in your home lab. Knowing how to use extended ping will really come in handy on your CCNA and CCNP exams as well as your real-life networking job and knowing how to stop an extended ping will as well junior science refresher magazine
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