Installing and Managing HP ARPA File Transfer Protocol Network Manager's Guide (36957-90157)

Appendix C 99

PING/iX Utility

How to Use PING/iX

To use PING/iX, you need the internet protocol (IP) address of the

remote node. If you do not wish to use the default values, you can

optionally specify the number of packets to send, and number of data

bytes per packet. The defaults are 64 bytes per packet, with an inﬁnite

number of packets. Use

[CTRL-Y] to stop sending packets.

You must have NA and NM capabilities to use PING/iX.

PING/iX can be run from a menu by entering:

:RUN PING.NET.SYS

or, from the command line using an INFO string in the form:

:RUN PING.NET.SYS;INFO= “ipaddress [, packets ] [, bytes ]”

Examples of both the menu-driven and the command-line interface are

provided in the following sections.

NOTE If you have active PING/iX processes while bringing up or shutting

down the network, the processes will exit to the menu display and IP

address prompt after printing error messages. It is highly

recommended that you run PING/iX after bringing up the networks,

and have no active PING/iX processes when you shut the network

down.