NAME
nws_ping - ping a Network Weather Service sensor
SYNOPSIS
nws_ping [-repeat seconds][-size experiment,buffer,message][-timeout seconds] host [host ...]
DESCRIPTION
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.
BUGS
Bugs list is at http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu. ⟨http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu⟩
AUTHOR
NWS is an original idea of Rich Wolski ([email protected]) who wrote the orignal nws_sensor.
Neil Spring, Jim Hayes ([email protected]) and Martin Swany maintained and enhanced it.
Graziano Obertelli ([email protected]) currently maintains NWS and wrote this man page.
SEE ALSO
nws_memory(1), nws_search(1), nws_nameserver(1), nws_extract(1)