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.\"Created by graziano@cs.ucsb.edu
.TH nws_ping 1 "October 7, 2002" "nws_ping"
.SH NAME
nws_ping \- ping a Network Weather Service sensor
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B nws_ping
[-repeat seconds][-size experiment,buffer,message][-timeout seconds] host [host ...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page explains the
.B nws_ping
program. The
.BR nws_ping
is part of the Network Weather Service and is used to
.I ping
a possibly remote NWS
.B 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.
.SH OPTIONS
.BI -repeat\ seconds
.RS
repeat the experiment continously every
.I seconds
seconds.
.RE
.BI -size\ experiment,buffer,message
.RS
conduct this experiments using a total of
.I experiment
bytes, with a TCP buffer size of
.I buffer
and a message of
.I message
bytes. The default is 64,16,32.
.RE
.SH BUGS
Bugs list is at
.UR http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu
http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu.
.UE
.SH AUTHOR
NWS is an original idea of Rich Wolski (rich@cs.ucsb.edu) who wrote the
orignal
.B nws_sensor.
.P
Neil Spring, Jim Hayes (jhayes@cs.ucsd.edu) and Martin Swany maintained
and enhanced it.
.P
Graziano Obertelli (graziano@cs.ucsb.edu) currently maintains NWS and
wrote this man page.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR nws_memory(1),
.BR nws_search(1),
.BR nws_nameserver(1),
.BR nws_extract(1)
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