You can monitor your router by checking the status lights on the front of your router. You can also check the connection between your PC and the router by running either the Ping or Telnet utilities.
This chapter contains the following topics:
Monitoring GTS 100 Status Lights
Running Ping and Telnet
Monitoring GTS 100 Status Lights
There are four green status lights in slots on the front of the router. These lights indicate the current status of the router. The lights can glow steadily (On) or they can blink. The following table indicates the meaning of each light.
Running Ping and Telnet
After you configure your GTS 100, you can quickly check to see if your PC can reach the GTS 100 and whether the GTS 100 can forward data from your PC to a system on a remote LAN. If the ping and telnet commands are present on your PC or workstation, use these commands to check your connections. (The location of the Ping and Telnet utilities varies from system to system, depending on your operating system and the vendor's TCP/IP stack.)
Steps to Run Ping or Telnet
The steps below are for Windows 3.1. These steps may vary from system to system. To run Ping or Telnet from your PC to your router, do the following:
c:\pctcp\ping 128.185.19.6