rmcpping

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Version: 2009-02-26 (CentOS - 06/07/09)

Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)

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NAME

rmcpping - send RMCP Ping to network hosts

SYNOPSIS

rmcpping [OPTIONS] destination

DESCRIPTION

rmcpping uses the RMCP Ping request datagram to elicit an RMCP Pong response from a remote host. The utility can be used to verify if a remote host supports RMCP or IPMI. The initial starting sequence number will be randomized.

rmcpping will return 0 to the environment if it receives atleast 1 response from the remote host. Otherwise, it exits with a value of 1.

OPTIONS

The following options are available
-h
Output help menu.
-V
Output version.
-c count
Stop after sending count ping packets.
-i interval
Wait interval seconds between sending each packet. The default is to wait for one second between each packet normally.
-I interface address
Set source address to specified interface address. Argument may be numeric IP address or name of device.
-t timeout
Time to wait for a response, in seconds. Default is 5 seconds.
-v
Verbose output.
-s num
Specify an initial starting sequence number. The default is to use a random initial sequence number.
-d
Turn on debugging.

LOCAL PING

Unlike ping(8), rmcpping cannot be used to ping a local network device (i.e. 127.0.0.1).

KNOWN ISSUES

It has been observed that some remote BMCs can get "confused" and delay packet responses if duplicate packets are sent in succession very quickly. For example, this could happen if the user repeatedly executes "rmcpping -c 1 -s X destination" very quickly. There is no known way to cleanly deal with a "confused" BMC. The best option is to simply wait "awhile".

ORIGIN

Developed by Albert Chu <chu11@llnl.gov> on LLNL's GNU/Linux clusters. This software is open source and distributed under the terms of the Gnu GPL. Command and manpage based off ping(8).

SEE ALSO

ping(8), ipmiping(8)