tping - Send echo messages to LAM nodes.
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Bugs
There is no built-in timeout and tping will wait forever to receive an echo. If no echo is received, due
to a dead link or node, tping hangs. Stop the process with a keyboard suspend signal (eg: ^Z) and termi‐
nate LAM with lamhalt(1) or lamwipe(1) (although the use of lamwipe(1) is deprecated).
Description
The tping command sends messages to, and collects replies from, a list of nodes, via the LAM echo server.
It is similar to the UNIX ping(8) command, and is used as a quick diagnosis of the LAM network.
Unless options are specified, tping sends a 1 byte message an infinite number of times, displaying the
roundtrip time of each message as it completes, with a delay of 1 second between roundtrips. After the
loop is broken (with keyboard interrupt, eg: ^C), tping prints statistics about all roundtrip messages.
Examples
tping h
Echo messages to the local node.
tping -v n7 -l 1000 -c 10
Echo 1000 byte messages to node 7. Stay silent while working. Stop after 10 roundtrips and report
statistics.
Name
tping - Send echo messages to LAM nodes.
Options
-h Print the command help menu.
-v Turn OFF verbose mode.
-ccount Send count messages.
-ddelay Delay delay seconds between each message.
-llength Each message is length bytes long.
See Also
lamhalt(1), lamwipe(1) LAM 7.1.4 July, 2007 TPING(1)
Synopsis
tping [-hv] [-c count] [-d delay] [-l length] nodes
