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## Name

ping — does a ping

## Synopsis

[ `server1` ]`ping`

[server1 proto=udp]`ping`

[proto=tcp]`ping`

[proto=icmp]`ping`

[server2 proto=fping]`ping`

special protocols:

[server1 proto=external pingcmd="ping -c1" ]`ping`

## Description

ICMP pings are only possible when uxmon is running with root priviledges. By default 'ping' will therefore use the UDP protocol. Ping supports icmp/udp/tcp though. Most of the IP stacks are implementing both ICMP and UDP echo services ...

For running uxmon with root priviledges create file `uxmon-asroot` and bb_start will start up uxmon as root.

if proto=external then a operating system command will be executed instead of using the built-in ping methods.

proto=karl is another special implementation of using the operating system ping. It is limited to Solaris though.

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