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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 2002 18:17:04 +0100 (CET)
From:      Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/45317: [PATCH] traceroute(8) manpage does not mention "-P icmp"
Message-ID:  <200211151717.gAFHH4q9016393@foobar.franken.de>

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>Number:         45317
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] traceroute(8) manpage does not mention "-P icmp"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 15 09:20:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Harold Gutch
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD foobar.franken.de 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #8: Fri Nov 15 03:08:15 CET 2002 logix@foobar.franken.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FOOBAR i386


>Description:
	The traceroute(8) manpage does not document the possibility to send
	out ICMP packets, it only mentions UDP, TCP and GRE as supported
	protocols.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	man traceroute, search for "-P".
>Fix:
	Apply attached patch.

--- src/contrib/traceroute/traceroute.8.orig	Fri Sep 25 17:54:13 2001
+++ src/contrib/traceroute/traceroute.8	Fri Nov 15 18:11:59 2002
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
 .TP
 .B \-P
 Send packets of specified IP protocol. The currently supported protocols
-are: UDP, TCP and GRE. Other protocols may also be specified (either by
+are: UDP, TCP, GRE and ICMP. Other protocols may also be specified (either by
 name or by number), though
 .I traceroute
 does not implement any special knowledge of their packet formats. This
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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