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start fox|tts|loopb prn
start fox prn
Begin a debugging test on one of the I/O ports on the NIC. The tests
available are:
fox A continuous stream of text sent to the attached printer. This
is a good test for troubleshooting hardware as long as the
attached printer supports text output.
tts A continuous stream of Gandalf 400C TTS-compatible text
sent to the attached printer.
loopb Loopback test. Any input characters from the device attached
to the I/O port is echoed back.
stop prn
stop prn
Stop an output test on an I/O port.
disable ioport|destination
disable prn
Disable an
ioport
so that queued jobs are not printed, or disable a
destination
so jobs can not be queued to it.
enable ioport|destination
enable prn
Enable an
ioport
so that queued jobs are printed, or enable a
destination
so jobs can be queued to it.
close tcp TCPindexnumber
close tcp 3
Force a TCP/IP connection between a TCP/IP host and the NIC to close.
The
TCPindexnumber
can be retrieved from “debug tcp” output.
ping [-s] hostIPaddress [datasize [packetnumber]]
ping 192.75.11.30
ping another TCP/IP host specified by
hostIPaddress
on the NIC
network.
datasize
is the datagram packet size which defaults to 64
bytes if no size is included in the syntax, and
packetnumber
is the
number of requests to be sent.
telnet hostIPaddress [escapecharacter]
telnet 192.75.11.35
Start a Telnet session with another TCP/IP host specified by
hostIPaddress
on the NIC network. If
escapecharacter
is used, it
resets the key sequence used to exit the Telnet session. It will return you
to the telnet> prompt where you can execute
quit. Use the keycode
command to find out exact escape characters if needed. The default
character is CTRL-].
Note To use a host or IP name instead of the address, you must have set the
DNS server on the NIC. Use the command
set sysinfo dns...
to do
this.