January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
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Name
appleping
Synopsis
applepinghost[packet-size[npackets]]
Sends AppleTalk Echo Protocol (AEP) request packets to host and displays transmission statistics if successful. The AppleTalk host is specified in either of the following ways:
-
name:type[@zone] The host’s name and type, as shown by the
atlookupcommand. If zone is not specified, the current zone is used.-
network-node The host’s network and node number in hexadecimal, as shown by the
atlookupcommand.
Options
-
packet-size Send packets of packet-size bytes (a value between 14 and 599). The default value is 64.
-
npackets Send npackets number of packets before stopping. If npackets is not specified,
applepingcontinues until you’ve sent an interrupt (using Control-C, for example).