nws_ping1
Ping a network weather service sensor
Usage
nws_ping [-repeat
seconds]
[-size
experiment,buffer,message]
[-timeout
seconds]
host
[host ...]
Overview
This manual page explains the nws_ping program. The nws_ping is part of the Network Weather Service and is used to ping a possibly remote NWS nws_sensor(1). The size of the experiment to conduct can be varied from the command line: the default may be small for fast network.
Options
-
-repeat seconds -
repeat the experiment continously every seconds seconds.
-
-size experiment,buffer,message -
conduct this experiments using a total of experiment bytes, with a TCP buffer size of buffer and a message of message bytes. The default is 64,16,32.
Releases
Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).