rmcp_ping(1)

💖 rmcp_ping — the IPMI RMCP Ping program 💖

okay so bestie, you know how you just wanna yell "HELLO?? ANYONE HOME??" at a server and see who yells back? that's literally this. it's rmcp_ping, from the IPMI RMCP Ping program, and it's giving very much "are you there, bestie" energy. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rmcp_ping [-p port] [-t waittime] [-s starttag] [-d] destination

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the vibe: rmcp_ping sends an RMCP ping packet onces a second to the destination, and it prints out the unique responses it gets back. that's it. that's the whole thing. no cap. 💅

it's just sitting there pinging once per second like a lil heartbeat, and every response that's new and different gets printed. iconic behavior, honestly. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -p port — sets the destination port, bestie. the default is the standard RMCP port, 623. 🍓
• -t waittime — how many seconds do we wait for a response before we're like "ok moving on"? it's ten by default. patience is a virtue but ten seconds is ten seconds. 😭
• -s starttag — okay so every single ping packet has an 8-bit tag value, and the range is 0-254 (255 is reserved, don't touch it, it's not for you 🙈). this program cycles through those values starting at starttag. default is 0. 👑
• -d — turns on debugging, and it goes to standard output. go off, debug mode. 🔥
• destination — the target address! if you don't give one, it defaults to the broadcast address, which is 255.255.255.255. so it just screams into the void and hopes someone answers. 🌈

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> — the main character who made all this happen. 👑

lowkey important: the default destination being the broadcast address means you're pinging everything, not one lil guy. just so you know what you're getting into. ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie! this one's from OpenIPMI, dated 02/24/06, and honestly it ate. go ping something. 🦋💖🎀