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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-09-26 14:48:23 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-09-26 14:48:23 +0000
commitb6c80ef0dd3eda0b5901627313ed4fa4251b14c2 (patch)
tree4c17b512583e568cf6a5f04f3b2d54817f8128cb /sbin/ping/ping.8
parent3cfa686a50030503dc2ff2f9a0111c54b9561795 (diff)
Some corrections from cd@sentia.nl.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/ping/ping.8')
-rw-r--r--sbin/ping/ping.814
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ping/ping.8 b/sbin/ping/ping.8
index 4f02552a28a..f2caf0a820c 100644
--- a/sbin/ping/ping.8
+++ b/sbin/ping/ping.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ping.8,v 1.22 2000/04/15 11:45:58 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ping.8,v 1.23 2000/09/26 14:48:22 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: ping.8,v 1.10 1995/12/31 04:55:35 ghudson Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ uses the
protocol's mandatory
.Tn ECHO_REQUEST
datagram to elicit an
-.Tn ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE
+.Tn ICMP ECHO_REPLY
from a host or gateway.
.Tn ECHO_REQUEST
datagrams
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ packet.
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl c Ar count
-Stop after sending (and receiving)
+Stop after sending
.Ar count
-.Tn ECHO_RESPONSE
+.Tn ECHO_REQUEST
packets.
.It Fl D
Set the
@@ -189,11 +189,11 @@ Use the specified time-to-live.
Verbose output.
.Tn ICMP
packets other than
-.Tn ECHO_RESPONSE
+.Tn ECHO_REPLY
that are received are listed.
.It Fl w Ar maxwait
-Specifies the number of seconds to wait for a response to a packet
-before transmitting the next one.
+Specifies the maximum number of seconds to wait for a response to
+a packet before transmitting the next one.
The default is 10.
.El
.Pp