NS3000/iX Operations and Maintenance Reference Manual (36922-90042)

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Getting Information About the Network
Displaying Connection Information
Displaying Connection Information
The PING tool allows you to confirm the reachability of a remote node
that supports the internet protocol.
You can also use PING to estimate the round trip times before
proceeding with lengthy transactions. If you send four or more bytes of
data with the echo request, PING displays the round trip times in
milliseconds. However, since the echo is performed at layer 3, PING is
not the appropriate tool to use when attempting to find out if a
particular application is available on the remote node or to estimate
application-level round trip times.
You can run PING by itself or as one of the NETTOOL tools. See Chapter
6 , “Using NETTOOL,” for instructions on running this tool using the
NETTOOL interface.
Run PING from the Command Line
You can run PING from the command line by using an INFO string. The
INFO string must contain the IP address of the remote node and,
optionally, the number of packets and number of bytes:
:RUN PING.NET.SYS;INFO=“
ipaddress [, packets ][, bytes ]”
The default number of packets is a continuous stream and the default
number of bytes is 64.
Stopping PING
You can enter
[CONTROL]-Y at any time to exit. The program exits
without displaying the menu when run from the command line.
The following examples illustrate using PING with the INFO string. In
each case, the parameters echoed by PING are also given.
Within the INFO string, commas are required to separate parameters.