Overview
The MTP™/IP utilities are a collection of small applications which can be useful in maintaining, testing, and diagnosing both MTP applications and general IP network issues. These utilities are provided for the convenience of DEI’s customers and to assist with Technical Support Requests (TSRs).
The mtping, lclient, and lserve utilities are the primary tools used by DEI engineers to evaluate and diagnose networks and software. They offer a wide variety of options.
| mtping | Tests connectivity between a workstation and an MTP/IP application by querying for the application’s ID string. Similar in function to the “ping”. It will also return status and configuration information for ExpeDat and SyncDat servers. |
| lserve | A test server capable of accepting both TCP/IP and MTP/IP transactions and returning arbitrary amounts of random data. |
| lclient | A test client which measures network performance while downloading arbitrary amounts of random data from lserve using either TCP or MTP. |
The MTPtestGUI and mtptest utilities are much simpler tools which provide automated testing and diagnostics. They are not as flexible as the tools above, but they are easier to use.
| MTPtestGUI | A graphical test suite for Windows and Mac OS X. |
| mtptest | Automatically runs a series of tests and reports on the status of your network, comparing TCP and MTP performance characteristics. |
As with all network software, you must ensure that any firewalls, VPNs, or NAT devices between your computers are configured to allow MTP/IP traffic. Each MTP/IP application runs on a specific UDP/IP port number. By default, the MTP Utilities use both UDP port 8082 and TCP port 8082. Other MTP/IP applications use other ports. For example, ExpeDat uses UDP/IP port 8080 by default. Each MTP/IP application can be configured to use alternative ports. See the documentation for the MTP/IP application you are testing, or the Troubleshooting chapter of this manual for other firewall tips.
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