ether_ping

Command-line tool providing a ping equivalent for Ethernet frames.

Usage

While ping uses an echo service embedded in every TCP/IP stack, ether_ping relies on a server program to have its frames echoed. First start the server on the destination computer, and tell it what Ethernet device it should listen to.

ether_ping_server -e eth0  # on Linux
ether_ping_server -e en0   # on Mac OS

Then launch the ping utility.

ether_ping -e eth0 c42c0337fffc

Both commands accept the -h / –help option.

Contributing to ether_ping

Author

Victor Costan victor@costan.us

Copyright © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See LICENSE.txt for further details.