ipmiping - send IPMI Get Authentication Capability request to network hosts

       Copyright (C) 2007-2015 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
       Copyright (C) 2003-2007 The Regents of the University of California.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  it  under  the  terms  of  the  GNU
       General  Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
       (at your option) any later version.

ipmiping  uses  the  IPMI  Get Channel Authentication Capabilities request datagram to elicit an IPMI Get
       Channel Authentication Capabilitiesl response from a remote host. The utility can be used to verify if  a
       remote host supports IPMI. The initial starting sequence number will be randomized.  ipmiping will return
       0  to the environment if it receives atleast 1 response from the remote host. Otherwise, it exists with a
       value of 1.

       It has been observed that some remote BMCs can get "confused" and delay  packet  responses  if  duplicate
       packets  (with  duplicate sequence numbers) are sent in succession very quickly. There is no known way to
       cleanly deal with a "confused" BMC other than the wait awhile.

       Unlike ping(8), local network devices (e.g. 127.0.0.1) cannot be "pinged".

       ipmiping - send IPMI Get Authentication Capability request to network hosts

       The following options are available

       -h     Output help menu.

       -V     Output version.

       -ccount
              Stop after sending count packets.

       -iinterval
              Wait interval seconds between sending each packet. The default is to wait for one  second  between
              each packet.

       -Iinterfaceaddress
              Set  source  address to specified interface address. Argument may be numeric IP address or name of
              device.

       -ttimeout
              Time to wait for a response, in seconds. Default is five seconds.

       -v     Verbose output.

       -snum Specify an initial starting sequence number. The default is  to  use  a  random  initial  sequence
              number.

       -d     Turn on debugging.

       -rversion
              Specify  IPMI  version.  Available options are "1.5" and "2.0". Default is to use "1.5". Note that
              packets will always be sent with the IPMI 1.5 protocol, but IPMI 1.5 vs IPMI 2.0  relevant  fields
              will  be  communicated  in  the Get Channel Authentication Capabilities datagram depending on user
              choice.

       Command and manpage based off ping(8).

       Report bugs to <freeipmi-users@gnu.org> or <freeipmi-devel@gnu.org>.

freeipmi(7), ping(8), rmcpping(8)

       http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/

ipmiping 1.6.15                                    2025-02-14                                        IPMIPING(8)

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