---
name: "nws_ping"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "nws"
version: "2.13-6.1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nws_ping"
---

# nws\_ping(1)

ping a Network Weather Service sensor

## 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)](/nws_sensor/1.md).** 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 (rich@cs.ucsb.edu) who wrote the orignal **nws\_sensor.**

Neil Spring, Jim Hayes (jhayes@cs.ucsd.edu) and Martin Swany maintained and enhanced it.

Graziano Obertelli (graziano@cs.ucsb.edu) currently maintains NWS and wrote this man page.

## SEE ALSO

**[nws\_memory(1)](/nws_memory/1.md),** **[nws\_search(1)](/nws_search/1.md),** **[nws\_nameserver(1)](/nws_nameserver/1.md),** **[nws\_extract(1)](/nws_extract/1.md)**