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appleping(1)                                                                                    appleping(1)



NAME
       appleping - exercises the AppleTalk network by sending packets to a named host


SYNOPSIS
       appleping net-node [ packet-size [ npackets ]]

       appleping name:type[@zone] [ packet-size [ npackets ]]


ARGUMENTS
       name:type[@zone]
               Specifies  the  host  by  its  name,  type, and zone. If you do not specify a value for zone,
               appleping uses the local zone.

       net-node
               Specifies the host by its network node number. To see the network node number for a  particu-lar particular
               lar system, run atlookup. The network and node numbers must be in hexadecimal.

       npackets
               Specifies how many packets to send before terminating.

       packet-size
               Specifies  in bytes the size of each packet.  The value of packet-size must be between 14 and
               599. The default packet size is 64 bytes.


DESCRIPTION
       appleping repeatedly sends AppleTalk Echo Protocol request packets  to  the  specified  computer  and
       reports  whether a reply was received. The appleping command continues to send packets and to display
       the result until the number of packets specified by npackets is reached or until you issue the inter-rupt interrupt
       rupt character (usually by pressing CONTROL-C).  Before exiting, appleping displays a summary of sta-tistics. statistics.
       tistics.


FILES
       /usr/bin/appleping Executable file


SEE ALSO
       appletalk(8), atlookup(1)



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