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IPMIPING(8)			 System Commands		     IPMIPING(8)

NAME
     ipmiping - send IPMI Get Authentication Capability request to network hosts

SYNOPSIS
     ipmiping [OPTION...] destination

DESCRIPTION
     ipmiping  uses  the  IPMI	Get  Channel Authentication Capabilities request
     datagram to elicit an IPMI Get  Channel  Authentication  Capabilitiesl  re-
     sponse  from  a  remote host. The utility can be used to verify if a remote
     host supports IPMI. The initial starting sequence number  will  be  random-
     ized.

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

OPTIONS
     The following options are available

     -h     Output help menu.

     -V     Output version.

     -c count
	    Stop after sending count packets.

     -i interval
	    Wait interval seconds between sending each packet. The default is to
	    wait for one second between each packet.

     -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 five 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.

     -r version
	    Specify IPMI version. Available options are "1.5" and "2.0". Default
	    is to use "1.5". Note that packets will always be sent with the IPMI
	    1.5 protocol, but IPMI 1.5 vs IPMI 2.0 relevant fields will be  com-
	    municated  in  the	Get Channel Authentication Capabilities datagram
	    depending on user choice.

KNOWN ISSUES
     It has been observed that some remote BMCs can  get  "confused"  and  delay
     packet responses if duplicate packets (with duplicate sequence numbers) are
     sent in succession very quickly. There is no known way to cleanly deal with
     a "confused" BMC other than the wait awhile.

     Unlike ping(8), local network devices (e.g. 127.0.0.1) cannot be "pinged".

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to <freeipmi-users@gnu.org> or <freeipmi-devel@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 2007-2015 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
     Copyright (C) 2003-2007 The Regents of the University of California.

     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it un-
     der  the  terms  of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
     Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at  your  option)
     any later version.

ORIGIN
     Command and manpage based off ping(8).

SEE ALSO
     freeipmi(7), ping(8), rmcpping(8)

     http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/

ipmiping 1.6.18 		   2026-06-02			     IPMIPING(8)
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