To abort a ping, you can just do ctrl-shift-6, as you suspected. I think it sends a Break. It's a good way to stop many annoying things, like when you make a typo and the router thinks you've typed a hostname and tries to Telnet to it. (You can also avoid that annoying behavior with the "no ip domain-lookup" command.)
To abort a Telnet session, you need control-shift-6 followed quickly by the x, in other words Break X. I agree with you that sources that say you need control-shift-6-x just to abort a ping are wrong. They've confused the two issues. If you aren't Telnetted to another router, then it wouldn't hurt to use control-shift-6-x to abort a ping, but if you were Telnetted, it would drop you out of the session, back to the other router from which you came or back to a Terminal Server or whatever. _______________________________ Priscilla Oppenheimer www.troubleshootingnetworks.com www.priscilla.com Aaron Ajello wrote: > > Several sources I have come across say the way to abort an > extended ping is ctrl-shift-6 followed by an x. Every time I > have tested this, the ping is aborted after just the > ctrl-shift-6. The x isn't necessary. > I'm wondering why several books say to include the x and if > that's the way cisco wants you to answer on a test. > Can anyone shed some light? > thanks, > Aaron > > Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=57659&t=57644 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
