spray(1M)       UNIX System V(Remote Procedure Call Utilities)        spray(1M)


NAME
      spray - spray packets

SYNOPSIS
      /usr/sbin/spray [ -c count ] [ -d delay ] [ -l length ] [ -t  nettype
      host ]

DESCRIPTION
      spray sends a one-way stream of packets to host using RPC, and reports
      how many were received, as well as the the transfer rate.  The host
      argument can be either a name or an Internet address.

      The following options are available:

      -c count       Specify how many packets to send.  The default value of
                     count is the number of packets required to make the total
                     stream size 100000 bytes.

      -d delay       Specify how many microseconds to pause between sending
                     each packet.  The default is 0.

      -l length      The length parameter is the numbers of bytes in the
                     Ethernet packet that holds the RPC call message.  Since
                     the data is encoded using XDR, and XDR only deals with 32
                     bit quantities, not all values of length are possible, and
                     spray rounds up to the nearest possible value.  When
                     length is greater than 1514, then the RPC call can no
                     longer be encapsulated in one Ethernet packet, so the
                     length field no longer has a simple correspondence to
                     Ethernet packet size.  The default value of length is 86
                     bytes (the size of the RPC and UDP headers).

      -t nettype     Specify clas of transports.  Defaults to netpath.  See
                     rpc(3N) for a description of supported classes.

SEE ALSO
      sprayd(1M), rpc(3N)

















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