{"id":4271,"date":"2021-12-01T10:58:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2021-12-01T12:47:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:47:01","slug":"how-to-stop-a-continuous-ping-on-cambium-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-stop-a-continuous-ping-on-cambium-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop a Continuous Ping on Cambium Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cambium equipment comes with a nice little ping utility when you SSH to it.  Very simple to use.  Maybe we should say too simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">usage: ping &lt;host&gt;\n       ping -n &lt;count&gt; &lt;host&gt;\n                count = 0 for continuous ping<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>So if I want to continuously ping a website, say incredigeek.com, I can put in the following<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">ping -n 0 incredigeek.com<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Hit return and we are off to the races.  But wait.  I can&#8217;t get it to stop.  Ctrl + C, doesn&#8217;t do anything, Ctrl + D or Ctrl +Z don&#8217;t help either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay well fine.  We&#8217;ll launch another terminal and ssh into it again and see what we can do.  Excellent, now we are in aaand&#8230; wait&#8230; why are the ping results showing up here too?  Help!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buried in the heart of the helpful help command are these lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">       ping -- Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts\n    pingend -- End ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t say.  Well lets try typing in pingend with all the commotion going on in the terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">SSH+&gt; pingend\nPing statistics for 142.250.191.206:\n        Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Well good to know.  Saves having to reboot the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cambium equipment comes with a nice little ping utility when you SSH to it. Very simple to use. Maybe we should say too simple. usage: ping &lt;host&gt; ping -n &lt;count&gt; &lt;host&gt; count = 0 for continuous ping So if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-stop-a-continuous-ping-on-cambium-radio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[128,161,1265,166,1246],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambium","tag-networking-2","tag-ping","tag-pingend","tag-terminal","tag-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4276,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}