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authorChris Kuethe <ckuethe@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-05-31 17:33:40 +0000
committerChris Kuethe <ckuethe@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-05-31 17:33:40 +0000
commit8ab81686e9da47bf574ca4315fb6c8a32314db3b (patch)
tree28a90b679b2ef4d11ab13343aa9fde45c1daa8aa /sbin/ping6/ping6.8
parent27c775ee9dc631b95ec2a1f83dad749c8ee5d8bb (diff)
add audible output to ping and ping6: -e beeps when pings are replied, -E beeps when
pings are dropped. suggestion to make ping and ping6 use the same flag from deraadt & sthen. reminder to not forget about ping6 from todd and naddy. ok deraadt, sthen "well, i don't object..." from a few others.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/ping6/ping6.8')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8 b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
index 25cc4fa7795..17049b1d379 100644
--- a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
+++ b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ping6.8,v 1.39 2007/06/23 16:15:18 itojun Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ping6.8,v 1.40 2009/05/31 17:33:39 ckuethe Exp $
.\" $KAME: ping6.8,v 1.57 2002/05/26 13:18:25 itojun Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 WIDE Project.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 23 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2009 $
.Dt PING6 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -36,10 +36,7 @@
.Nd send ICMPv6 ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm ping6
-.\" without ipsec, or new ipsec
-.Op Fl dfHmNnqtvWw
-.\" old ipsec
-.\" .Op Fl AdEfnNqRtvwW
+.Op Fl dEefHmNnqtvWw
.Op Fl a Ar addrtype
.Op Fl b Ar bufsiz
.Op Fl c Ar count
@@ -49,8 +46,6 @@
.Op Fl i Ar wait
.Op Fl l Ar preload
.Op Fl p Ar pattern
-.\" new ipsec
-.\".Op Fl P Ar policy
.Op Fl S Ar sourceaddr
.Op Fl s Ar packetsize
.Op Ar hops ...
@@ -71,10 +66,6 @@ ICMPv6
header formatted as documented in RFC 2463.
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.\" old ipsec
-.\" .It Fl A
-.\" Enables transport-mode IPsec authentication header
-.\" .Pq experimental .
.It Fl a Ar addrtype
Generate an ICMPv6 Node Information Node Addresses query,
rather than an echo-request.
@@ -115,9 +106,18 @@ packets.
Set the
.Dv SO_DEBUG
option on the socket being used.
-.\" .It Fl E
-.\" Enables transport-mode IPsec encapsulated security payload
-.\" .Pq experimental .
+.It Fl E
+Emit an audible beep (by sending an ascii BEL character to the
+standard error output) 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.
+This is disabled for flood pings.
+.It Fl e
+Emit an audible beep (by sending an ascii BEL character to the
+standard error output) after each non-duplicate response is received.
+This is disabled for flood pings.
.It Fl f
Flood ping.
Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one hundred times per second,