HP LCS60 Installation Manual page 345

IPXPING
NAME
ipxping - send NetWare Link Services Protocol (NLSP) Ping Request packets
SYNOPSIS
ipxping network:node [packetsize ] [count] [ interval]
DESCRIPTION
ipxping is intended for use in network testing, measurement, and management,
primarily for manual fault isolation. Tracking a single-point hardware or software
failure in an Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) network can often be difficult.
ipxping uses the NLSP Ping Request packet to elicit a Ping Reply from a Novell
host or gateway equipped with NLSP. Because of the load it could impose on the
network, hosts, and gateways, ipxping should not be used during normal opera-
tions and it should not be used from automated scripts.
To use ipxping for fault isolation, the hexidecimal IPX address of the target node
must be specified in network:node format. While it is possible to contact the IPX
address of the LCS60's Ethernet port, it is not possible to contact the addresses that
correspond to the LCS60's virtual IPX network port.
By default, ipxping sends an IPX data packet that is 56-bytes long. The IPX
header is followed by a ping header containing signature, version, type, ping id
and results fields. The remainder of the packet is padded with additional bytes to
fill out the packet. The size of the packet, in bytes, may be changed by specifying
an alternate packetsize on the command line (40 = packetsize = 1500).
By default, ipxping sends one packet per second and prints one line of output
showing the round trip time, in hundredths of a second, for every packet sent. The
delay between packets (in seconds) can be changed by specifying an alternate
interval on the command line. Since a packet for which no reply has been received
by the time the next packet is sent is declared "lost", it may be necessary to
increase the inter-packet delay to communicate with hosts over congested net-
works.
By default, ipxping continues to send packets until it is killed. If count is specified
on the command line, ipxping will send the specified number of Ping Requests,
and then exit. Summary round trip time, packet loss, and errored packets statistics
are displayed just before ipxping exits.
DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is zero for normal terminations; a positive number for error termina-
tions.
FILES
/usr/etc/ipxping
/usr/etc/ipxnetstat
SEE ALSO
Novell NetWare® Link Services Protocol Specification, Version 1.0, Chapter 2.
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