Powershell Test-connection Cmdlet

Question

Hi all,
i want to test the connectivity between two specfic NIC ports. i executed the command :
Test-Connection -ComputerName "10.15.0.1" -Source "10.15.250.53" -Quiet. but it has banged an error message:
parameters set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters.
FYI- i executed the command without "-Quiet" and successfully executed.
all i want to test the connectivity between the two specific NIC ports and i should get a boolean value. Please help me in this matter.
Thanks,
Hemanth

Answer 1

You can't use -Quiet when also using -Source.  From the help (below), we can see that the -Source argument appears in the second parameter set, while the -Quiet doesn't.  The opposite applies to the third parameter set.
SYNTAX
Test-Connection [-ComputerName] <string[]> [-AsJob] [-Authentication <AuthenticationLevel> {Default | None | Connect | Call | Packet |
PacketIntegrity | PacketPrivacy | Unchanged}] [-BufferSize <int>] [-Count <int>] [-Impersonation <ImpersonationLevel> {Default | Anonymous |
Identify | Impersonate | Delegate}] [-ThrottleLimit <int>] [-TimeToLive <int>] [-Delay <int>] [<CommonParameters>]
Test-Connection [-ComputerName] <string[]> [-Source] <string[]> [-AsJob] [-Authentication <AuthenticationLevel> {Default | None | Connect | Call
| Packet | PacketIntegrity | PacketPrivacy | Unchanged}] [-BufferSize <int>] [-Count <int>] [-Credential <pscredential>] [-Impersonation
<ImpersonationLevel> {Default | Anonymous | Identify | Impersonate | Delegate}] [-ThrottleLimit <int>] [-TimeToLive <int>] [-Delay <int>]
[<CommonParameters>]
Test-Connection [-ComputerName] <string[]> [-Authentication <AuthenticationLevel> {Default | None | Connect | Call | Packet | PacketIntegrity |
PacketPrivacy | Unchanged}] [-BufferSize <int>] [-Count <int>] [-Impersonation <ImpersonationLevel> {Default | Anonymous | Identify |
Impersonate | Delegate}] [-TimeToLive <int>] [-Delay <int>] [-Quiet] [<CommonParameters>]
Grant Ward, a.k.a. Bigteddy