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Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/ping6')
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/ping6/ping6.8 | 28 |
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 |