pinging a ip device

[markwieseler]

PLease help what does this mean when you get this kind of reply back.

ping 192.168.175.1

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.175.1, timeout is 2 seconds:

U.U.U

Success rate is 0 percent (0/5)

[Jon Marshall]

Mark

Have a read of this link -

http://packetlife.net/blog/2008/may/27/dissecting-unreachable-ping-response/

Jon

[Jerry Ye]

Hi Mark,

. means network server timed out while waiting for a reply

U means a destination unreachable error protocol data unit (PDU) was received

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/fundamentals/command/reference/cf_m1.html#wp1013837

HTH,

jerry