X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xscreensaver;a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fglx%2Fsonar.man;h=9927b3bb56cfbc7e1eaba3aabc04c54e446cb308;hp=bb3b07e1ea1128017a551398d1956b6b77f97e17;hb=6f5482d73adb0165c0130bb47d852644ab0c4869;hpb=c70f94f648d51bb4828193124f325fa52b0e57f3 diff --git a/hacks/glx/sonar.man b/hacks/glx/sonar.man index bb3b07e1..9927b3bb 100644 --- a/hacks/glx/sonar.man +++ b/hacks/glx/sonar.man @@ -54,19 +54,22 @@ Run in simulation mode instead of pinging real hosts. Ping the given host. .TP 12 .I A.B.C.D -Ping the given IP address. +Ping the given IPv4 address. .TP 12 .B subnet -Ping the local class C subnet (the nearest 255 addresses). +Ping the local subnet. On systems where we can determine the local +network mask, we use that; otherwise, we assume Class C (254 hosts). .TP 12 .B subnet/\fINN\fP Ping a different-sized local subnet: e.g., \fBsubnet/28\fP would ping -a 4-bit subnet (the nearest 15 addresses). +a 4-bit subnet (the nearest 14 addresses). On systems where we can +determine the local network mask, we always use that. .TP 12 .I A.B.C.D/NN -Ping an arbitrary other subnet. The IP address specifies the base address, -and the part after the slash is how wide the subnet is. Typical values -are /24 (for 255 addresses) and /28 (for 15 addresses). +Ping an arbitrary other IPv4 subnet. The address specifies +the base address, and the part after the slash is how wide the +subnet is. Typical values are /24 (for 254 addresses) and /28 (for +14 addresses). .TP 12 .I filename Ping the hosts listed in the given file. This file can be in the @@ -138,12 +141,15 @@ This means that if any the hosts you are pinging take longer than 2 seconds to respond, they won't show up; and if you are pinging several hosts with very fast response times, they will all appear close to the center of the screen (making their names hard to read.) +.SH BUGS +Does not support IPv6. .SH SEE ALSO .BR X (1), .BR xscreensaver (1), -.BR ping (8) +.BR ping (8), +.BR ping6 (8) .SH COPYRIGHT -Copyright \(co 2000-2008 by Jamie Zawinski +Copyright \(co 2000-2012 by Jamie Zawinski .RE Copyright \(co 1998 by Stephen Martin.