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authorJun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-05-26 13:02:18 +0000
committerJun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-05-26 13:02:18 +0000
commitcc9fe0fc2919aac77124adf321e1e01160f3c30e (patch)
tree77b429b704d42872ed85134cc041db89adba9204 /sbin/ping6/ping6.8
parente10c21b7de93425629034ab53bcba0ed9f4050bd (diff)
sync with latest KAME tree. -S option uses bind(2), -g option, KNF
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diff --git a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8 b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
index 733c26bf6e3..6bfadcfba55 100644
--- a/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
+++ b/sbin/ping6/ping6.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ping6.8,v 1.21 2001/07/25 10:04:56 mpech Exp $
-.\" $KAME: ping6.8,v 1.45 2001/07/05 06:28:04 itojun Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ping6.8,v 1.22 2002/05/26 13:02:17 itojun Exp $
+.\" $KAME: ping6.8,v 1.56 2002/05/26 12:07:51 itojun Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 WIDE Project.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ packets to network hosts
.Op Fl c Ar count
.Ek
.Bk -words
+.Op Fl g Ar gateway
+.Ek
+.Bk -words
.Op Fl h Ar hoplimit
.Ek
.Bk -words
@@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ packets to network hosts
.Op Fl s Ar packetsize
.Ek
.Bk -words
-.Op Ar hops...
+.Op Ar hops ...
.Ek
.Bk -words
.Ar host
@@ -159,6 +162,11 @@ Only the super-user may use this option.
.Bf -emphasis
This can be very hard on a network and should be used with caution.
.Ef
+.It Fl g Ar gateway
+Specifies to use
+.Ar gateway
+as the next hop to the destination.
+The gateway must be a neighbor of the sending node.
.It Fl H
Specifies to try reverse-lookup of IPv6 addresses.
The
@@ -200,7 +208,7 @@ Node information multicast group will be computed based on given
.Ar host ,
and will be used as the final destination.
Since node information multicast group is a link-local multicast group,
-destination link needs to be specified by
+outgoing interface needs to be specified by
.Fl I
option.
.It Fl p Ar pattern
@@ -236,12 +244,8 @@ The option is meaningful only if the target
is a neighbor.
.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.
-If the outgoing interface is specified by the
-.Fl I
-option as well,
-.Ar sourceaddr
-needs to be an address assigned to the specified interface.
+The source address must be one of unicast addresses of the sending node,
+and must be numeric.
.It Fl s Ar packetsize
Specifies the number of data bytes to be sent.
The default is 56, which translates into 64
@@ -389,7 +393,7 @@ returns 0 on success (the host is alive),
and non-zero if the arguments are incorrect or the host is not responding.
.Sh EXAMPLES
Normally,
-.Xr ping6 8
+.Nm
works just like
.Xr ping 8
would work; the following will send ICMPv6 echo request to
@@ -414,7 +418,6 @@ The following will probe addresses assigned to the destination node,
.Bd -literal -offset indent
ping6 -a agl dst.foo.com
.Ed
-.Pp
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr netstat 1 ,
.Xr icmp6 4 ,
@@ -435,8 +438,8 @@ ping6 -a agl dst.foo.com
.Rs
.%A Matt Crawford
.%T "IPv6 Node Information Queries"
-.%N draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups-07.txt
-.%D August 2000
+.%N draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups-09.txt
+.%D May 2002
.%O work in progress material
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
@@ -446,5 +449,10 @@ command appeared in
.Bx 4.3 .
The
.Nm
-command with IPv6 support first appeared in WIDE Hydrangea IPv6 protocol stack
-kit.
+command with IPv6 support first appeared in the WIDE Hydrangea IPv6
+protocol stack kit.
+.Sh BUGS
+.\" except for bsdi
+.Nm
+is intentionally separate from
+.Xr ping 8 .