appleping(1M)

NAME

appleping - exercises the AppleTalk network by sending packets to a named host’s echo protocol socket

SYNOPSIS

appleping net-node [packet-size [npackets]]

appleping name : type [@ zone] [packet-size [npackets]]

ARGUMENTS

name : type [@ zone]

Specifies an AppleTalk node by name, type, and zone. You can use an asterisk instead of a zone name to indicate the current zone. If you don’t specify a zone name, the current zone is the default. The type argument can be the equal sign (=), which matches any string of characters.

net-node
Specifies an AppleTalk node by network node number. To see the network node number for a particular system, run atlookup.

npackets
Specifies how many packets to send before terminating.

packet-size
Specifies the size of each packet, in bytes. The value of packet-size must be between 14 and 599. The default packet size is 64 bytes.

DESCRIPTION

appleping repeatedly sends AppleTalk Echo Protocol request packets and reports whether a reply was received. The appleping command continues to send packets and to display the result until the number of packets specified by npackets is reached or until you issue the interrupt character (usually by pressing CONTROL-C). Before exiting, appleping displays a summary of statistics.

FILES

apple/bin/appleping
Executable file