Name

ping — does a ping

Synopsis

[ server1 ]ping

[server1 proto=udp]ping

[proto=tcp]ping

[proto=icmp]ping

[server2 proto=fping]ping

special protocols:

[server1 proto=external pingcmd="ping -c1" ]ping

Description

ICMP pings are only possible when uxmon is running with root priviledges. By default 'ping' will therefore use the UDP protocol. Ping supports icmp/udp/tcp though. Most of the IP stacks are implementing both ICMP and UDP echo services ...

For running uxmon with root priviledges create file uxmon-asroot and bb_start will start up uxmon as root.

if proto=external then a operating system command will be executed instead of using the built-in ping methods.

proto=karl is another special implementation of using the operating system ping. It is limited to Solaris though.