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9-14 Administrative Tool

For example:

ping 199.55.55.55

The command would display the following:

199.55.55.55 is alive

If you have the name service DNS, you may see the following:

sales_east (199.55.55.55) is alive

If the ping is unsuccessful, you’ll see the following:

PING: timeout waiting for reply from 199.55.55.55

Using Echo

Echo sends a packet to an AppleTalk host (using the AppleTalk

Echo Protocol) and the remote station echoes the packet back.

You can specify appletalk address (in nn.d format where nn is the

network address and d the node address), output (a file name to

direct the echo to), interval (the length of time between sending

echo packets), count (number of echo packets to send), timeout

(period before giving up on receiving echo packets), and type

(choice of echo packet to send including short, long, printer status

and system info packets). Use the following command:

echo <appletalk_address>

count <number of tries>

interval <period in seconds between tries>

output <output file name>

timeout <period in seconds before quitting>

type [echo_short_packet,echo_long_packet,

echo_printer_status_packet,echo_system_info_packet]

For example:

echo 122.2 co 5 int 5 out echo.doc tim 30 ty echo_sh,echo_long

Viewing Interface Status, Settings

A couple of commands are useful to display the active/inactive

status and settings of specific interfaces (ports).