Testing TCP/IP

 

Use this procedure to test TCP/IP connections.

After you have successfully installed TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities for i5/OS® licensed program and configured TCP/IP on your system, you should test your TCP/IP connections.

To test your TCP/IP connection to the network, follow these steps:

  1. Verify that TCP/IP communication is configured and started on each of the workstations. Use the documentation provided by your workstation vendor.

  2. From workstation 1, open a command prompt and type ping 192.168.1.3. You might receive a message that confirms that the packet has been sent to System A. This verifies that the workstation can access the system. If the connection to the network fails, see TCP/IP troubleshooting for more information.

 

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