Step 2: Ping the Egress Router

Purpose

Ping the egress router to confirm that communication over the network is operational.

Action

To ping the egress router, enter the following JUNOS CLI operational mode command:

user@host> ping ip-address-interface

Sample Output

[edit protocols mpls]

user@R1# run ping 10.1.56.1 

PING 10.1.56.1 (10.1.56.1): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 10.1.56.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.837 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.56.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.792 ms

64 bytes from 10.1.56.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.856 ms

^C

--- 10.1.56.1 ping statistics ---

3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.792/0.828/0.856/0.027 ms

What It Means

The sample output confirms that communication between router R1 and the IP address of the relevant interface on router R5 (10.1.56.1) is operational.