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2-36 October 22, 1999 SP Switch Router Adapter Guide - 1.4 Update 2
Configuring the SP Switch Router Adapter
Verify SP Switch Router Adapter card from router
Verify SP Switch Router Adapter card from router
This section describes tools available from the SP Switch Router system software to check out
newly-installed media cards. These tools are to be used on the SP Switch Router.
• The ping command tests whether an SP Switch Router Adapter media card can process
and return a message.
• The grcard command tells you the operating state of an installed SP Switch Router
Adapter card.
• The grreset command allows you to reset all or an individual card.
Note: Output from logs and other system reporting functions refer to the SP Switch Router
Adapter card as DEV1 or dev1.
Verify media card operation using ping
Check SP Switch Router Adapter media card viability using the ping command. This UNIX
command is modified to support SP Switch Router board components. This use of ping only
tests internal communication between the SP Switch Router control board and the specified
media card. It does not test message routing between media cards or communication between
media cards and external devices.
Note: The ping command does not disturb normal SP Switch Router operations.
The ping -P grid <slot number> command sends a message to a specified SP Switch Router
Adapter card asking the card to respond back with another message.
1 Log in as root to the SP Switch Router.
2 Enter a ping -P grid command to send a ping from the control board. Specify the
appropriate media card by its chassis slot number.
For example, to act on the SP Switch Router Adapter media card in slot 3, enter:
# ping -P grid 3
This is what you see when the media card responds:
68 bytes from 0:0x3:0: time=0.293 ms
68 bytes from 0:0x3:0: time=0.251 ms
68 bytes from 0:0x3:0: time=0.288 ms
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Do a Control-C to stop the ping and view ping statistics:
-- 2 GRID ECHO Statistics --
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.969/1.060/1.172 ms
To act on the IP switch control board, enter:
# ping -P grid 66