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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-07 15:48:51 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-07 15:48:51 +0000
commit43457588767caedd16dbf19162de0a6a435dfeda (patch)
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parent6b00d6a3ebd552afe7b0a0844e598ee70810f887 (diff)
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mdoc(7) police:
Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text. Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the entire enclosed block.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/ping6')
-rw-r--r--sbin/ping6/ping6.828
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8 b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
index ccd6b2b..9ae4c80 100644
--- a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
+++ b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ The options are as follows:
.\" old ipsec
.\" .It Fl A
.\" Enables transport-mode IPsec authentication header
-.\" .Pq experimental .
+.\" (experimental).
.It Fl a Ar addrtype
Generate ICMPv6 Node Information Node Addresses query, rather than echo-request.
.Ar addrtype
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ This is an experimental option.
Set socket buffer size.
.It Fl c Ar count
Stop after sending
-.Pq and receiving
+(and receiving)
.Ar count
.Tn ECHO_RESPONSE
packets.
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Set the
option on the socket being used.
.\" .It Fl E
.\" Enables transport-mode IPsec encapsulated security payload
-.\" .Pq experimental .
+.\" (experimental).
.It Fl f
Flood ping.
Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one hundred times per second,
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ Probe node information multicast group
.Pq Li ff02::2:xxxx:xxxx .
.Ar host
must be string hostname of the target
-.Pq must not be a numeric IPv6 address .
+(must not be a numeric IPv6 address).
Node information multicast group will be computed based on given
.Ar host ,
and will be used as the final destination.
@@ -224,16 +224,14 @@ when finished.
.It Fl R
Make the kernel believe that the target
.Ar host
-.Po
-or the first
+(or the first
.Ar hop
if you specify
-.Ar hops
-.Pc
+.Ar hops )
is reachable, by injecting upper-layer reachability confirmation hint.
The option is meaningful only if the target
.Ar host
-.Pq or the first hop
+(or the first hop)
is a neighbor.
.It Fl S Ar sourceaddr
Specifies the source address of request packets.
@@ -300,7 +298,7 @@ If duplicate packets are received, they are not included in the packet
loss calculation, although the round trip time of these packets is used
in calculating the round-trip time statistics.
When the specified number of packets have been sent
-.Pq and received
+(and received)
or if the program is terminated with a
.Dv SIGINT ,
a brief summary is displayed, showing the number of packets sent and
@@ -323,12 +321,14 @@ during normal operations or from automated scripts.
.\" When a
.\" .Ar packetsize
.\" is given, this indicated the size of this extra piece of data
-.\" .Pq the default is 56 .
+.\" (the default is 56).
.\" Thus the amount of data received inside of an IP packet of type
.\" .Tn ICMP
.\" .Tn ECHO_REPLY
.\" will always be 8 bytes more than the requested data space
-.\" .Pq the Tn ICMP header .
+.\" (the
+.\" .Tn ICMP
+.\" header).
.\" .Pp
.\" If the data space is at least eight bytes large,
.\" .Nm
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ Duplicate packets should never occur when pinging a unicast address,
and seem to be caused by
inappropriate link-level retransmissions.
Duplicates may occur in many situations and are rarely
-.Pq if ever
+(if ever)
a good sign, although the presence of low levels of duplicates may not
always be cause for alarm.
Duplicates are expected when pinging a broadcast or multicast address,
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ Damaged packets are obviously serious cause for alarm and often
indicate broken hardware somewhere in the
.Nm
packet's path
-.Pq in the network or in the hosts .
+(in the network or in the hosts).
.Sh TRYING DIFFERENT DATA PATTERNS
The
(inter)network
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