Testing TCP/IP Communications with the Ping Request
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Procedure
Use this procedure to validate TCP/IP communications between two devices with a Ping request:
Step
Action
1
From the main screen, click the Ping button. The following window appears:
2
Click the Ping button, and enter the address of the station to be queried using the Remote IP address field.
3
Press the OK button. The following window appears:
Result: If the exchange is successful, the following window appears:
Also, the message’s send/return time (in ms) appears in the Period field:
Response Type
The following table groups together the various types of possible responses to the Ping request.
If the response is
then
positive
The windows records the time (ms) it takes the message to be sent and returned.
A window appears with the message Exchange successful.
negative
A window with the message Exchange incorrect specifies that the remote device was not reached in the network architecture.