IRDAPING(8)

📦 version 0.9.18, in fedora 43, fedora 44

👑 IRDAPING — the irdaping(8) page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to section 8 of the manual, that's the sysadmin/system-tools girlies zone 💅 this one's all about irdaping, and yes it's giving ping but make it infrared. let's get into it 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

irdaping — sends IrDA test frames 📡✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

irdaping [ daddr ] [ -s framesize ]

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • daddr ... — the destination address goes here, bestie 📮 (you can grab one with irdadump, more on that below)
  • -s framesize ... — sets how big the frame is 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, this is basically ping(8)'s infrared cousin — same energy, different protocol 💖 It sends out IrDA test frames, and it tucks some userdata inside them: namely the frame number and the timestamp of when the frame got sent ⏱️ iconic.

you can change how thicc the frame is with the -s option 🌈 and if you're sitting there like "okay but where do I get a daddr from??" — you go use irdadump, she'll tell you 😌

🚨 IMPORTANT SIS: irdaping must be run as root, or installed setuid root, because it needs root privileges. no root, no ping. periodt. 👑

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

here's the shape of it:

irdaping <daddr> [-s <framesize>]

and ooh, you can also make an alias so you don't have to type any parameter at all 🧚:

alias irping="irdaping \`grep daddr /proc/net/irda/discovery|sed s/.*daddr://\`"

it works fine when there's only one discovered client — like, one and only one, don't get greedy 💀

😭 DIAGNOSTICS 😭

N.N.

(literally nothing documented here, we move 💨)

💀 BUGS 💀

N.N.

(also nothing, don't come for me, that's what the page says 🫠)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

also go touch some grass and read these links, they're the lore fr fr 📚:

💖 AUTHOR 💖

this manual page was written by Werner Heuser <wehe@tuxmobil.org> 👑 and it's based on the READMEs from irda-utils by the Linux/IrDA Project, plus the Linux/IrDA-Tutorial. giving credit where credit is due, always 🫶

Copyright (c) 2001 Werner Heuser

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. 📜✨

and that's the whole page, bestie — dated 03 July 2006, straight out of the IRDAPING(8) era 💜 go ping something infrared, stay root, stay iconic, ily bye 👋💅

📦 where this page comes from