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authorMichael Tuexen <tuexen@FreeBSD.org>2019-06-20 12:38:41 +0000
committerMichael Tuexen <tuexen@FreeBSD.org>2019-06-20 12:38:41 +0000
commit592bbe54d941daea4a2cb4871636eab2fa639c61 (patch)
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parent99b6ccd8c913e6c9b7c3f2c1cfa0c968d2f402a7 (diff)
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The variable names in the description of the port number usage is
inconsistent. This patch fixes that and improves the precision of the description. Thanks to Tom Marcoen for reporting the issue and providing an initial patch, on which this change is based. PR: 237723 Reviewed by: bcr@ MFC after: 1 week Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20708
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=349228
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/traceroute')
-rw-r--r--contrib/traceroute/traceroute.810
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/traceroute/traceroute.8 b/contrib/traceroute/traceroute.8
index ebfcc364779ff..33b986938f742 100644
--- a/contrib/traceroute/traceroute.8
+++ b/contrib/traceroute/traceroute.8
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
.\" $Id: traceroute.8,v 1.19 2000/09/21 08:44:19 leres Exp $
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd May 31, 2015
+.Dd June 20, 2019
.Dt TRACEROUTE 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.Op Fl m Ar max_ttl
.Op Fl P Ar proto
.Op Fl p Ar port
-.Op Fl q Ar nqueries
+.Op Fl q Ar nprobes
.Op Fl s Ar src_addr
.Op Fl t Ar tos
.Op Fl w Ar waittime
@@ -125,14 +125,14 @@ Traceroute hopes that nothing is listening on UDP ports (or UDP-Lite ports
if used by
.Nm
and supported by the peer)
-.Em base + 1
+.Em port + 1
to
-.Em base + nhops * nprobes
+.Em port + (max_ttl - first_ttl + 1) * nprobes
at the destination host (so an ICMP PORT_UNREACHABLE message will
be returned to terminate the route tracing). If something is
listening on a port in the default range, this option can be used
to pick an unused port range.
-.It Fl q Ar nqueries
+.It Fl q Ar nprobes
Set the number of probes per hop (default is 3,
unless
.Fl D