User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients

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Basic Reference
Using UNIX System Commands
Ping
Purpose
The ping utility lets you verify a physical connection to a remote computer.
Syntax
ping remote_computer [–t [timeout_value]] [–n [num_times]]
where
remote_computer
Is the computername or IP address of a remote computer.
-t [timeout_value]
Is the number of seconds (timeout_value) that this node waits for an ICMP echo
reply from a remote computer. The timeout_value range is from 1 through 300
seconds; the default is 20.
-n [num_times]
Is the number of times ping sends an echo request to the remote computer. If you
don’t specify a number, ping uses the default of one echo request.
NOTE: There is a 1-second delay between each echo request.
Comments
The ping utility is a Microsoft TCP/IP utility that can be used to isolate
network hardware problems and incompatible configurations for StarLAN
10 networks, token-ring networks, and ThinLAN networks.