Pinging is a basic function that allows testing of the communications viability between the client and server. Usually, the vendor will provide advanced tracing to assist in isolating the problem. This tool allows for trapping and reporting the calls that are made from a 4GL application to the server and provides the return values. Previously these needed to be set at a DOS prompt. Adding the filter name traps the commands executed between the 4GL and the server.
Choices are ip, sk, lw, ws, nw, or none.
If the fully qualified nodename is used in the odbc.ini file, this is not yet supported. If using NDIS, protocol.ini and tcputils.ini for LanManager 2.2B would be good to look at. If using ODI, look at the net.cfg file. Any host file on the PC should be captured. This is mainly where ip addresses and node names are stored.