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author | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-07-06 19:34:18 +0000 |
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committer | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-07-06 19:34:18 +0000 |
commit | a2accd01f0ac2f25d72443923819abceaf128119 (patch) | |
tree | 219860332a065e5cb6defc25dab58e4a8c7997cd /sbin/ping/ping.8 | |
parent | 9639b20db64d084fa58b75058a2bd896b1f743e1 (diff) | |
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The .Nm utility
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diff --git a/sbin/ping/ping.8 b/sbin/ping/ping.8 index cb3b42e..9f05cff 100644 --- a/sbin/ping/ping.8 +++ b/sbin/ping/ping.8 @@ -60,8 +60,9 @@ packets to network hosts .Ar mcast-group .Bc .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Ping -uses the +The +.Nm +utility uses the .Tn ICMP .No protocol Ap s mandatory .Tn ECHO_REQUEST @@ -313,8 +314,9 @@ it uses in the computation of round trip times. If less than eight bytes of pad are specified, no round trip times are given. .Sh DUPLICATE AND DAMAGED PACKETS -.Nm Ping -will report duplicate and damaged packets. +The +.Nm +utility will report duplicate and damaged packets. Duplicate packets should never occur when pinging a unicast address, and seem to be caused by inappropriate link-level retransmissions. @@ -440,7 +442,7 @@ Others may use completely wild values. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Nm -command returns an exit status of zero if at least one response was +utility returns an exit status of zero if at least one response was heard from the specified .Ar host ; a status of two if the transmission was successful but no responses @@ -456,12 +458,12 @@ if an error occurred. .Sh HISTORY The .Nm -command appeared in +utility appeared in .Bx 4.3 . .Sh AUTHORS The original .Nm -command was written by +utility was written by .An Mike Muuss while at the US Army Ballistics Research Laboratory. |