User manual

Administrative Tools 9-1

Resolving Addresses

The arp command performs IP address resolution. Type:

arp <ip address or host name> output <file name>

NETServer will respond with an IP address (and MAC

[Ethernet] address if found on a locally connected network) of

the host and will output the data to the FLASH file system.

For example:

ARP: 172.122.120.118 -> 08:00:09:cc:58:bf

Resolving Host Names

The resolve name command returns an IP address for a

specified host name by sending it to a DNS server for resolution.

But before you can resolve a host, you must have added a DNS

local host and server entry for resolution. To do so, use the add

dns host <name> address <ip address> and add dns server <ip

address> commands.

For example:

add dns server 133.114.121.45

add dns host hahvahd.college-hu.com 133.114.121.15

resolve name hahvahd

A screen output example:

Network Name: hahvahd.college-hu.com

is resolved to Address: 133.114.121.015

Using Ping

Ping verifies that NETServer Plus can communicate with other

network devices. Options let you output ping results to a file,

and set the ping attempts (count), period between attempts

(interval) and time before quitting (timeout). Type:

ping <IP address>

output <output file name>

count <number of tries>

interval <period in seconds between tries>

timeout <period in seconds before quitting>