nws_ping(1)
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 (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.