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authorbde <bde@FreeBSD.org>1998-11-29 13:20:04 +0000
committerbde <bde@FreeBSD.org>1998-11-29 13:20:04 +0000
commita2504ac4b611180e320dcda02b2b5ecf426d8523 (patch)
tree97517fc96055423b4d618316bd5ffcb87a085e1d /sbin/ping/ping.8
parenta2f2520224befb33e07ef06aca1bf12974330104 (diff)
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Fixed non-use of .Nm and hard line breaks in rev.1.16-1.17:
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/ping/ping.8')
-rw-r--r--sbin/ping/ping.819
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ping/ping.8 b/sbin/ping/ping.8
index db82d5a..2784289 100644
--- a/sbin/ping/ping.8
+++ b/sbin/ping/ping.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)ping.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
-.\" $Id: ping.8,v 1.16 1998/08/26 01:58:39 dillon Exp $
+.\" $Id: ping.8,v 1.17 1998/08/27 16:34:38 dillon Exp $
.\"
.Dd March 1, 1997
.Dt PING 8
@@ -85,7 +85,10 @@ Stop after sending
.Pq and receiving
.Ar count
.Tn ECHO_RESPONSE
-packets. If this option is not specified, ping will operate until interrupted.
+packets.
+If this option is not specified,
+.Nm
+will operate until interrupted.
.It Fl d
Set the
.Dv SO_DEBUG
@@ -100,7 +103,7 @@ sent a period
.Dq \&.
is printed, while for every
.Tn ECHO_REPLY
-received a backspace is printed. Only root may specify this option.
+received a backspace is printed.
This provides a rapid display of how many packets are being dropped.
Only the super-user may use this option.
.Bf -emphasis
@@ -111,9 +114,10 @@ Wait
.Ar wait
seconds
.Em between sending each packet .
-The default is to wait for one second between each packet. The
-wait time may be fractional, but only root may specify values
-less then 1 second. This option is incompatible with the
+The default is to wait for one second between each packet.
+The wait time may be fractional, but only the super-user may specify
+values less then 1 second.
+This option is incompatible with the
.Fl f
option.
.It Fl I Ar interface
@@ -197,7 +201,8 @@ The default is 56, which translates into 64
data bytes when combined
with the 8 bytes of
.Tn ICMP
-header data. Only root may use this option.
+header data.
+Only the super-user may use this option.
.It Fl T Ar ttl
Set the IP Time To Live for multicasted packets.
This flag only applies if the ping destination is a multicast address.
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