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RDS-PING(1)		  BSD General Commands Manual		   RDS-PING(1)

NAME
     rds-ping — test reachability of remote node over RDS

SYNOPSIS
     rds-ping [-c count] [-i interval] [-I local_addr] remote_addr

DESCRIPTION
     rds-ping is used to test whether a remote node is reachable over RDS.
     Its interface is designed to operate pretty much the standard ping(8)
     utility, even though the way it works is pretty different.

     rds-ping opens several RDS sockets and sends packets to port 0 on the
     indicated host. This is a special port number to which no socket is
     bound; instead, the kernel processes incoming packets and responds to
     them.

OPTIONS
     The following options are available for use on the command line:

     -c count
	     Causes rds-ping to exit after sending (and receiving) the speci‐
	     fied number of packets.

     -I address
	     By default, rds-ping will pick the local source address for the
	     RDS socket based on routing information for the destination
	     address (i.e. if packets to the given destination would be routed
	     through interface ib0, then it will use the IP address of ib0 as
	     source address).  Using the -I option, you can override this
	     choice.

     -i timeout
	     By default, rds-ping will wait for one second between sending
	     packets. Use this option to specified a different interval. The
	     timeout value is given in seconds, and can be a floating point
	     number. Optionally, append msec or usec to specify a timeout in
	     milliseconds or microseconds, respectively.
     Specifying a timeout considerably smaller than the packet round-trip time
	     will produce unexpected results.

AUTHORS
     rds-ping was written by Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com>.

SEE ALSO
     rds(7), rds-info(1), rds-stress(1).

BSD				 Apr 22, 2008				   BSD

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