AECHO(1)

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version 4.5.1 · 9 versions
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💖 AECHO(1) 💖

okay bestie so this is aecho, and it's from the Netatalk AFP Fileserver Manual — yes we're in Unix manpage territory and yes it's giving vintage-network-girlie ✨

🌈 NAME 🌈

aecho — send AppleTalk Echo Protocol packets to network hosts 🦋

like, you're poking a host to see if it's alive and answering. that's it. that's the whole vibe check.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

aecho [-c count] [address | nbpname]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so aecho repeatedly sends an Apple Echo Protocol (AEP) packet to the host you point it at — you can name that host either with an AppleTalk address or an nbpname — and then it tells you whether a reply came back. it's a ping, but make it AppleTalk. 🍓

requests go out at a rate of one per second. steady. patient. main character energy.

  • address gets parsed by atalk_aton(3) 💫
  • nbpname gets parsed by nbp_name(3) 💫
  • and the nbp type defaults to Workstation — that's the fallback, no cap

when aecho gets terminated, it spills the tea and reports:

  • the number of packets sent
  • the number of responses received
  • the percentage of packets lost

and if any responses came back at all, you also get the minimum, average, and maximum round trip times. obsessed. 😌

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

want to check if a particular host is up and responding to AEP packets? say less:

example% aecho bloodsport
11 bytes from 8195.13: aep_seq=0. time=10. ms
11 bytes from 8195.13: aep_seq=1. time=10. ms
11 bytes from 8195.13: aep_seq=2. time=10. ms
11 bytes from 8195.13: aep_seq=3. time=10. ms
11 bytes from 8195.13: aep_seq=4. time=10. ms
11 bytes from 8195.13: aep_seq=5. time=9. ms
^C
----8195.13 AEP Statistics----
6 packets sent, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 9/9/10

look at that clean 0% packet loss — she ate and left no crumbs 🔥

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -c count — Stop after count packets. that's it bestie, one flag, she's simple and she knows what she wants 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

ping(1), atalk_aton(3), nbp_name(3), aep(4), atalkd(8)

(iykyk, go read them if you're feeling academic 💜)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Contributors to the Netatalk Project (https://netatalk.io/contributors)

heads up babes — the footer is literally just the version and the page name, so: this is Netatalk 4.5.1, page AECHO(1), no date line to report 🙈

k bye, go ping something 🌈💖

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