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dnping - Loopbacks diagnostic packets through a remote node
dnping nodename [user pass] count
or
dnping nodename [options] nodename
Options:
[qsv] [-c number] [-i interval] [-p password] [-s size] [-u username] [-w
timeout]
This utility sends to remote DECnet node nodename the
number of packets specified by count to test the link between the two
systems. Optionally a username and password may be specified for the
connection as well as several other options. NOTE that if you dnping another
Linux box it must have dnetd running.
NOTE also that dnping is not really like an IP "ping" in that it
needs a registered object at the other end to connect to. So, just because
you cannot ping a machine does not, necessarily, mean that machine is not
available, just that the MIRROR object is not available. There is not (to my
knowledge) a low-level equivalent in DECnet of the ICMP ping message.
Pings 10 packets through remote node "mv3100"
# dnping mv3100 10
Make it look a bit like IP ping:
# dnping -vti 1000000 marsha
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January 25 2000 | DECnet utilities |