The ChorusOS implementation of ping(1M), a basic tool for checking whether a network connection is working or not, requests an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from the specified host and simply displays
host is alive |
The following example uses the ping utility to check the connection with the system having IP address 129.157.197.1:
$ rsh target ping 129.157.197.1 129.157.197.1 is alive |
The example below shows what happens when the host does not respond:
$ rsh target ping 129.157.197.44 no answer from 129.157.197.44 |
Note that ping supports options.