Hi Chris,

There is (was?) a Microsoft utility called DLCPing. I think it was included
on the CD-ROM in Microsoft's HIS 2000 Resource Kit (long out of print, and
now very difficult to obtain). DLCPing is also occasionally given to
customers by Microsoft PSS, to use in troubleshooting SNA connectivity
problems. As far as I know, DLCPing is licensed software and not freely
distributable; I suspect some of the code was licensed from a well-known
third party vendor of SNA software (who is not IBM). Otherwise I'd email you
a copy. But if you can track down a copy of the old HIS 2000 Resource Kit,
you might find a copy of DLCPing to use.

Regards,

Andrew McLaren
Sydney, Australia

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Subject: Re: DLSw Test Program? (Was OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of
connectivity)

OS2PING is very handy indeed.  (There's also OS/2's NETPING, which does
much the same for NetBIOS connections.)  You could boot into OS/2 and run
this command.  OS2PING (and NETPING) are not installed automatically, but
you can find them contained in the MPTSAPLT.ZIP file.  This file is located
somewhere within the MPTS (Multiprotocol Transport Services) feature of
OS/2.  Simply unzip what you need.  I would imagine today's modern
eComStation still has this, and conceivably you could make a bootable CD to
run it.

I've found a not-quite-as-handy Linux substitute, described here:

http://www.gcom.com/linux/lis/cmds.html#ldltest

See the second ldltest example for the relevant syntax.  Likewise, you may
be able to use this from a bootable Linux CD and thus make it a
near-universal troubleshooting tool from a particular workstation.

I haven't found a real equivalent for Windows, but perhaps someone else has
an idea.

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Timothy Sipples
IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect
Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z
Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific
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