appleping(1) appleping(1)
NAME
appleping - exercises the AppleTalk network by sending packets to a
named host
SYNOPSIS
appleping net-node [ packet-size [ npackets ]]
appleping name:type[@zone] [ packet-size [ npackets ]]
ARGUMENTS
name:type[@zone]
Specifies the host by its name, type, and zone. If you do not
specify a value for zone, appleping uses the local zone.
net-node
Specifies the host by its network node number. To see the net-
work node number for a particular system, run atlookup. The
network and node numbers must be in hexadecimal.
npackets
Specifies how many packets to send before terminating.
packet-size
Specifies in bytes the size of each packet. 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 to
the specified computer 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
/usr/bin/appleping Executable file
SEE ALSO
appletalk(8), atlookup(1)
appleping(1)
Mac OS X 10.5 - Generated Sun Oct 28 20:55:40 EDT 2007