DNPING(1)

✨ dnping — the DECnet vibe check 💅

okay bestie, so dnping is a General Commands Manual girlie and she's here to loopback diagnostic packets through a remote node 🦋 like, she yeets lil packets at another machine and sees if they come back. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dnping — loopbacks diagnostic packets through a remote node 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dnping nodename [user pass] count

or

dnping nodename [options] nodename

Options:

[qsv] [-c number] [-i interval] [-p password] [-s size] [-u username]
[-w timeout]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So this utility sends to remote DECnet node nodename the number of packets specified by count, and the whole point is to test the link between the two systems 🫶. Optionally a username and password may be specified for the connection, plus a bunch of other options, because she's flexible like that.

⚠️ NOTE that if you dnping another Linux box it must have dnetd running. like, non-negotiable bestie. no dnetd, no ping. 💀

NOTE also that dnping is not really like an IP "ping" in that it needs a registered object at the other end to connect to. So just because you cannot ping a machine does not, necessarily, mean that machine is not available — it just means the MIRROR object is not available. There is not (to my knowledge) a low-level equivalent in DECnet of the ICMP ping message. so yeah, absence of ping is not the same as absence of machine, iykyk 🌈

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -c number — number of packets to send (default 10). ten lil guys, off they go 🎀
• -d — debug mode (default off). for when you need to see everything 🔍
• -i interval — interval between packets in microseconds (default 0). yes, microseconds. she's precise like that ⏱️
• -p password — access control password. If this is - then you will be prompted. cute lil incognito move, the prompt will handle it 🙈
• -q — quiet mode (default off). shhh. main character energy but make it silent 🤫
• -s size — size of frame to send in bytes (40 data + 68 hdr) 📏
• -t — timestamps mode (default off) ⭐
• -u username — access control username 🫶
• -w timeout — Specifies a timeout (in seconds). If no response is received after this time then dnping will abort. The default is to wait forever. yes, forever. she's patient but you can give her a limit 💀
• -v — verbose mode (default off). for the girlies who want the full lore 📖

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Pings 10 packets through remote node "mv3100":

# dnping mv3100 10

Make it look a bit like IP ping:

# dnping  -vti 1000000 marsha

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

dntype(1), dndir(1), dndel(1), dntask(1), sethost(1), dnetd(8)

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slay, that's the whole page bestie. this one's from the DECnet utilities, dated January 25 2000 — yeah, she's an icon from another era, and she still ate 💅✨ 🦋