macping - Man Page
A tool for pinging other RouterOS or mactelnetd devices
Synopsis
mactelnet [options] <MAC-Address|hostname>
Description
This tool enables you to ping other RouterOS or MAC-Telnetd enabled devices. You can ping either a hostname or a MAC address. If specified, the hostname (identity) will be looked up via MNDP discovery.
Options
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax. A summary of options is included below.
- -f
Fast mode, do not wait before sending next ping request. The next ping will be sent immediately when the last ping is received. This cannot be used with -c 0
- -s
Specify the amount of bytes to send in each ping packet, up to ~1400 bytes.
- -c
Number of packets to send before exiting. A value of 0 means unlimited packets and the tool must be exited with Control + C.
- -h
Show summary of options.
- -v
Show version of program.
See Also
mndp(1), mactelnet(1), mactelnetd(8).
Author
macping was written by Håkon Nessjøen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>.
This manual page was written by Håkon Nessjøen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).