Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 2704

TPING
Purpose
Syntax
Using TPING
266 Utilities Reference
Use at the server console to send an Internet Control Message Protocol
(ICMP) echo request packet to an IP node on your internetwork.
TPING is a command line utility that determines whether an IP target node on
your internetwork is reachable.
[LOAD] TPING host [packet_size [retry_count]]
Parameter
host
packet_size
retry_count
TPING sends an ICMP echo request packet to the IP target node. If the target
node receives the request packet, it sends back a reply packet.
If TPING doesn't receive a reply, it resends the request packet the specified
number of times.
When TPING receives a reply, it stops sending requests and displays a
message indicating that the target node is reachable. (If it doesn't receive a
reply, TPING also notifies you.)
Use to
Specify the symbolic host name or IP address
of a TCP/IP system on the network.
Specify the size, in bytes, of the ICMP packet.
Specify the number of times you want to
resend an ICMP packet to the host system if a
reply is not received (default = 5).