Identifying a Remote Application

In normal use, mtping will send an ACT_IDSTR MTP/IP request to the IP address and UDP/IP port number given.  By default, this request message will be repeated once per second until a response is received or eight seconds have elapsed.  A typical use is shown below:

prompt# mtping dataexpedition.com 8080 ACT_IDSTR dataexpedition.com (65.69.251.121:8080) Response 0 of 155 bytes after 0 repeats in 1ms (Version 2/0): servedat - 1.10.3 Nov 2007 - DEI, DOC-1.8.11 MTP-darwin-3.12.12 US Pat. 7158479 00000000: ExpeDat-1.9-4 Data Expedition Inc. - DataExpedition.com, Internal

The result indicates how many repeats were needed, the remote application id and version information, and the remote application configuration and license information.

prompt# mtping dataexpedition.com 8082 ACT_IDSTR dataexpedition.com (65.69.251.121:8082) 1 65.69.251.121 1ms "Unreachable: No Application on that Port"

This result reveals that there is no MTP application running on port 8082.

For more information about identifying DEI software, see Tech Note 0001.

For more information about software revision codes, see the Revision Codes chapter.