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authormatteo <matteo@FreeBSD.org>2008-08-27 15:01:23 +0000
committermatteo <matteo@FreeBSD.org>2008-08-27 15:01:23 +0000
commit470dc620809fc044c4478d701334cccd1de05e62 (patch)
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parent777f0de1c2519cbce4b14c92c2e3e924280ff361 (diff)
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Implement -R support, similar to ping(8)'s -A.
ping(8)'s -a was mapped to -e, but -E was already taken in ping6 (old option) so rename -e to -r. Now: ping -a => ping6 -r ping -A => ping6 -R MFC after: 2 days
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diff --git a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8 b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
index d15c76c..3897a90 100644
--- a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
+++ b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd August 26, 2008
+.Dd August 27, 2008
.Dt PING6 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ packets to network hosts
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.\" without ipsec, or new ipsec
-.Op Fl defHmnNoqtvwW
+.Op Fl dfHmnNoqrRtvwW
.\" old ipsec
.\" .Op Fl AdEfmnNqRtvwW
.Bk -words
@@ -148,12 +148,6 @@ option on the socket being used.
.\" .It Fl E
.\" Enables transport-mode IPsec encapsulated security payload
.\" (experimental).
-.It Fl e
-Audible.
-Include a bell
-.Tn ( ASCII
-0x07)
-character in the output when any packet is received.
.It Fl f
Flood ping.
Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one hundred times per second,
@@ -250,6 +244,22 @@ specifies IPsec policy to be used for the probe.
Quiet output.
Nothing is displayed except the summary lines at startup time and
when finished.
+.It Fl r
+Audible.
+Include a bell
+.Tn ( ASCII
+0x07)
+character in the output when any packet is received.
+.It Fl R
+Audible.
+Output a bell
+.Tn ( ASCII
+0x07)
+character when no packet is received before the next packet
+is transmitted.
+To cater for round-trip times that are longer than the interval
+between transmissions, further missing packets cause a bell only
+if the maximum number of unreceived packets has increased.
.It Fl S Ar sourceaddr
Specifies the source address of request packets.
The source address must be one of the unicast addresses of the sending node,
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