User Guide

266 Utilities Reference
Utilities Reference
103-000153-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
TPING
Purpose
Use at the server console to send an Internet Control Message Protocol
(ICMP) echo request packet to an IP node on your internetwork.
TPING is a command line utility that determines whether an IP target node on
your internetwork is reachable.
Syntax
[LOAD] TPING host [packet_size [retry_count]]
Using TPING
TPING sends an ICMP echo request packet to the IP target node. If the target
node receives the request packet, it sends back a reply packet.
If TPING doesn’t receive a reply, it resends the request packet the specified
number of times.
When TPING receives a reply, it stops sending requests and displays a
message indicating that the target node is reachable. (If it doesn’t receive a
reply, TPING also notifies you.)
Parameter Use to
host Specify the symbolic host name or IP address
of a TCP/IP system on the network.
packet_size Specify the size, in bytes, of the ICMP packet.
retry_count Specify the number of times you want to
resend an ICMP packet to the host system if a
reply is not received (default = 5).