I recently needed to check the availability (or rather pingability) of a system on a remote network. I didn’t have a VPN connection to that network but I did have administrative access to the network’s router which was a Draytek Vigor 2600.
As well as the expected web interface, the Vigor 2600 (as with many other Draytek routers) also includes a telnet server with a suite of command line tools.
To telnet to the router from both Windows & *nix systems you use the command:
telnet <router ip or hostname>
You will then be prompted for a password. This password is the same as the web interface password.
Once logged in, you can type ‘?’ and expect to be presented with a set of available commands which may look roughly like those below.
% Valid commands are:
upnp ddns exit ip ipf ddos
urlf p2p log quit srv show
mngt sys vpn wan port wol
The ping command is a subcommand of ‘ip’ so to use it we type:
ip ping <host ip address>
The router will then send five pings to the target host and display a report of each ping, latency and packet loss.
I hope this comes in handy for others 🙂
Thanks – that was really useful for me tonight and saved me some time trawling the manuals! 🙂
Nice write-up, but this doesn’t always seem to work with my router ip address, any hints?
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