Command Name

What it does

Page number/SCO Manual

rwhod

Announces usage metrics on the

sending machines running rwhod(ADMN).

These stats can be seen with the rwho and

ruptime commands.

2-17

ping

sends packets to determine which machines

are available on a network when a broadcast address is specified

2-17

arp

Displays and modifies the Internet-to-Ethernet address translation table used for the address resolution protocol.

2-81

ndstat

displays statistics for configured network adapter drivers

2-81

rlogin

Is the remote login client that connects your terminal on the current local host to a remote host system

2-81

rlogind

Is the server for the rlogin program

2-81

inetd

It the Internet “super-server” that listens on multiple ports for incoming connection requests and then spawns the appropriate server processes to handle them.

2-81

hwconfig

Displays the current hardware configuration. Use with the –h option to strip headers

3-45

ndstat

Displays network adapter driver stats

3-45

netconfig

Configures network interfaces

3-45

netstat

Displays the contents of various network related data structures

3-45

ping

Tests network connections by eliciting hosts to reply to packets sent to them.

3-45,5-41, 6-117

inconfig

Used to modify ipforwarding and ipsendredirects kernel parameters for systems used as routers

5-11

netstat

use with –r to view the kernels routing table, -n to view it with numerical addresses

5-17

route

Used to manually update the kernels routing table.

5-21, 6-117

traceroute

Used to detemine whether a route is working, and if it is not, where it is broken.

5-43

ripquery

Requests all routes known by a RIP gateway by sending a RIP REQUEST or POLL command. The routing information in any routing packets returned is displayed numerically and symbolically.

5-45

cu

Connects to a configured device or system

6-117

netconfig

Network configuration utility, can be invoked from command line or using scoadmin

6-117

pppattach

Brings up a manual or on demand outgoing PPP connection

6-117

pppd

The PPP daemon

6-117

uutry

Connects to a configured device or system using the login script specified in the /usr/lib/uucp/Systems file.

6-117

rlogin

UNIX-specific remote login

7-59

gated

A multi-protocol routing daemon

7-59

ifconfig

Network interface configuration

7-59

inetd

Internet Super-daemon

7-59

irdd

The Internet Route Discovery Daemon

7-59

lpd

Remote line printing daemon

7-59

rarpd

Reverse ARP daemon

7-59

rcmd

UNIX specific remote command

7-59

rcp

UNIC specific remote copy

7-59

routed

a RIP only routing daemon

7-59

slink

Configures STREAMS and socket

7-59

snmpd

SNMP daemon

7-59

syslogd

Logs system messages to /usr/adm/syslog by default

7-59

telnet

TCP/IP standard remote login

7-59

uname

Get or set a machines name and other properties

7-59

xntpd

Standard time daemon

7-59

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