Correct use of .Nm. Remove unused #includes. Use warn(). cosmetic in usage()
string.
Translate 0 sec 1000000 usec to 1 sec 0 usec.

A fairly rare possible buffer overflow:
Theo fixed this and tqbf reported it
Obtained from: OpenBSD

.Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS. Use .An/.Aq.

Calculate and print out the standard deviation of the round trip times.
This isn't necessarily the best statistic, but it is by far the easiest to
calculate. Update the man page to be more explicit

Calculate and print out the standard deviation of the round trip times.
This isn't necessarily the best statistic, but it is by far the easiest to
calculate. Update the man page to be more explicit about precisely which
statistics are printed out. Revert some of jmg's bogus man page changes from
rev 1.11.

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Import Lite2's src/sbin, except for XNSrouted and routed. All relevant
files in src/sbin are off the vendor branch, so this doesn't change the
active versions.

fix man page to use marcos instead of parens, quotes and braces

plus other minor fixes

1) Minor nits in the usage message from bde. I took out the hard tabs and
used spaces to align the second line under the program name.
2) Cache uid after call to setuid(getuid()) so we don't wast

1) Minor nits in the usage message from bde. I took out the hard tabs and
used spaces to align the second line under the program name.
2) Cache uid after call to setuid(getuid()) so we don't waste a system call
for each packet with a call to getuid for the -v case.
3) Update manual to reflect new restriction on -l from last delta.

Suggested by: bde, Bill Fenner

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1) Fix usage to match convention and manual. Fix manual to match usage.
2) Must be root to run preload (OpenBSD ping.c 1.8)
3) Don't print all replies unless verbose and root (from idea in
OpenBS

1) Fix usage to match convention and manual. Fix manual to match usage.
2) Must be root to run preload (OpenBSD ping.c 1.8)
3) Don't print all replies unless verbose and root (from idea in
OpenBSD ping.c 1.10 and 1.11) to avoid leaking information available
only to root.
4) Remove unused h: from option string to getopt.
5) Make the compiler happy with exit(0) (Lite-2?)

Reviewed by: Dan Cross <tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu>

Good candidate for 2.2 and 2.1 (as are many of the 1.17 changes).

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Make ping -Wall clean (except for one warning).
Do a better job of argument parsing.
Don't permit ping -f to a multicast address (very antisocial).
Don't permit -L, -I, -T options with unicast addres

Make ping -Wall clean (except for one warning).
Do a better job of argument parsing.
Don't permit ping -f to a multicast address (very antisocial).
Don't permit -L, -I, -T options with unicast addresses.
Ensure that we ask for only AF_INET addresses (should close PR#2584).
Return <sysexits.h> error codes for failures. Document this.
Fix man page to identify the author and put sections in correct order.

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Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$

Reviewed by: Gary Jennejohn <gj@freebsd.org>
Submitted by: Bruce Murphy <packrat@iinet.net.au>

Add '-a' audible flag, so terminal will beep upon receipt of a reply
packet. Useful for debugging ethe

Reviewed by: Gary Jennejohn <gj@freebsd.org>
Submitted by: Bruce Murphy <packrat@iinet.net.au>

Add '-a' audible flag, so terminal will beep upon receipt of a reply
packet. Useful for debugging ethernet runs, among other things.

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Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.

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Add multicast options -I (source interface), -T (set ttl), -L (no loopback).
They were all lowercase in the original, but our ping already uses -i and
-l so I made them all uppercase.

Obtained from:

Add multicast options -I (source interface), -T (set ttl), -L (no loopback).
They were all lowercase in the original, but our ping already uses -i and
-l so I made them all uppercase.

Obtained from: Multicast release 3.5

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delete doubled words, e.g.: "the the" -> "the"

Print out ICMP errors that are responses to our own packets by default.
Turn this behavior off using '-Q'. This makes '-v' useless other than as
an ICMP-sniffer, which tcpdump is better at anyway.

Print out ICMP errors that are responses to our own packets by default.
Turn this behavior off using '-Q'. This makes '-v' useless other than as
an ICMP-sniffer, which tcpdump is better at anyway.

Print out another couple of ICMP messages, and fix the printing of the
original packet (mostly byte order problems).

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BSD 4.4 Lite sbin Sources

Note: XNSrouted and routed NOT imported here, they shall be imported with
usr.sbin.

Merge from head up to r188941 (last revision before the USB stack switch)

- improve readability

Reviewed by: trhodes, keramida
MFC after: 3 days

- rename the RETURN VALUES section to EXIT STATUS
- not bumping a date as this is not a real content change

Approved by: ru
MFC after: 3 days

Add a new feature to ping(8) - possibility to specify maximum
wait time for a packet. This allows to:

- Count number of packets received before and after specified
time.
- Shorten time of execu

Add a new feature to ping(8) - possibility to specify maximum
wait time for a packet. This allows to:

- Count number of packets received before and after specified
time.
- Shorten time of execution of 'ping -c 1' scripts.

Submitted by: Lytochkin Boris <lytboris gmail.com>

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-mdoc sweep.

Implement a new feature for ping(8) - sweeping pings. In a sweeping
ping ICMP payload of packets being sent is increased with given step.
Sweeping pings are useful for testing problematic channels, M

Implement a new feature for ping(8) - sweeping pings. In a sweeping
ping ICMP payload of packets being sent is increased with given step.
Sweeping pings are useful for testing problematic channels, MTU
issues or traffic policing functions in networks.

PR: bin/82625
Submitted by: Chris Hellberg <chellberg juniper.net> (with some cleanups)

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Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's license,
per letter dated July 22, 1999.

Approved by: core, imp

mdoc(7): Use the new feature of the .In macro.

The current recommended default time to live (TTL) for the Internet
Protocol (IP) is 64 [RFC791, RFC1122].

Prodded by: Igor Kucherenko <kivvy@sunbay.com>
Obtained from: http://www.iana.org/assignmen

The current recommended default time to live (TTL) for the Internet
Protocol (IP) is 64 [RFC791, RFC1122].

Prodded by: Igor Kucherenko <kivvy@sunbay.com>
Obtained from: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ip-parameters

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