continuous ping in IOS 12.2

[makkers]

Has anyone ever found a continuous ping feature in IOS version 12. or above?

I cant believe that Cisco can only allow you you to ping more than 5 packets from an extended ping command.

Surely they must have crafted a continuous ping feature by mow :-(

[Richard Burts]

Jason

I am not aware of any facility in IOS that implements a continuous ping. And trying to think from Cisco's perspective I am not sure that the resources of a router is a particularly good place to do a continuous ping. If I want a continuous ping perhaps it is better to have some PC connected to the network doing this.

HTH

Rick

[ROBERT WATSON]

You sure can this feature can be turned on by utilizing Cisco Service Assurance agent. You'll need to be running pretty recent code to do it.

First create your rtr object

ie

rtr 1

type echo protocol ipIcmpEcho 192.168.0.10 <- you can also specify source ip address here

after you specify the type you can add in timeouts size etc etc

rtr schedule 1 life forever start-time now <- this activates the agent

now exit out of config and keep doing what you need to do. I personally hate waiting for the router to complete it's ping's and just sit there staring and ! or . for minutes on end.

IE_Lab_Core#show rtr collection-statistics

Entry number: 1

Start Time Index: 15:49:26.274 CST Wed Mar 23 2005

Number of successful operations: 3

Number of operations over threshold: 0

Number of failed operations due to a Disconnect: 0

Number of failed operations due to a Timeout: 0

Number of failed operations due to a Busy: 0

Number of failed operations due to a No Connection: 0

Number of failed operations due to an Internal Error: 0

Number of failed operations due to a Sequence Error: 0

Number of failed operations due to a Verify Error: 0

RTT Values:

RTTAvg: 19 RTTMin: 19 RTTMax: 19

NumOfRTT: 3 RTTSum: 57 RTTSum2: 1083

[Richard Burts]

I forgot the ability of Cisco Service Assurance Agent to generate pings that are continuous. So you are correct that the ability to do this does now exist in IOS.

I am not sure that this is quite what the original poster wanted (and he wanted it in 12.2). But where there is some need for continuous ping, the capability does now exist.

HTH

Rick