Documentation updates

TOS
Stephane Bortzmeyer 24 years ago
parent 678edf35ac
commit f20d1c9b82

@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ test hosts which aren't yours.
Current features:
- uses the protocols echo, discard, chargen or HTTP,
- uses the protocols echo, discard, chargen, HTTP or ICP,
- uses UDP instead of TCP for the protocols which accept it (like echo),
- can repeat the test and display various measures about it,
- can use T/TCP on systems which support it.

@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
.\" $Id$
.TH echoping 1 "November 22, 1996" "ECHOPING" "echoping"
.SH NAME
@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ echoping \- tests a remote host with TCP or UDP
.B echoping
is a small program to test (approximatively) performances
of a remote Internet host by sending it TCP "echo" packets. It can use other
protocols as well (HTTP, UDP "echo", etc).
protocols as well (HTTP - which makes it a good tool to test Web servers, UDP "echo", etc).
.LP
.B echoping
simply shows the elapsed time, including the time to set up the TCP
@ -91,7 +93,7 @@ If a Web page is empty,
.B echoping
will display meaningless messages.
Timeouts on TCP connections are a bit experimental.
Timeouts on T/TCP connections are a bit experimental.
Since
.B echoping
@ -104,6 +106,6 @@ start to read right now.
See the README for information about other network measurements programs.
.SH AUTHOR
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortz@users.sourceforge.net>

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