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Description: fix lines with a misused two-fonts macro in manpage
Author: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
Last-Update: 2019-08-19
--- traceroute.orig/traceroute/traceroute.8 2019-08-19 19:07:42.000000000 +0000
+++ traceroute/traceroute/traceroute.8.new 2019-08-19 19:26:05.000000000 +0000
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ traceroute \- print the route packets tr
.ti +8
.BR host " [" "packet_len" "]"
.br
-.BR traceroute6
+.B traceroute6
.RI " [" options ]
.br
-.BR tcptraceroute
+.B tcptraceroute
.RI " [" options ]
.br
-.BR lft
+.B lft
.RI " [" options ]
.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ and source/destination port, in order to
by firewalls just as a start of allowed type of a network session).
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
-.BI \--help
+.B \-\-help
Print help info and exit.
.TP
.BR \-4 ", " \-6
@@ -173,14 +173,14 @@ Specifies with what TTL to start. Defaul
Tells traceroute to add an IP source routing option to the outgoing
packet that tells the network to route the packet through the
specified
-.IR gateway
+.I gateway
(most routers have disabled source routing for security reasons).
In general, several
-.IR gateway\fR's
+.IR gateway 's
is allowed (comma separated). For IPv6, the form of
-.IR num\fB,\fIaddr\fB,\fIaddr...
+.IB num , addr , addr...
is allowed, where
-.IR num
+.I num
is a route header type (default is type 2). Note the type 0 route header
is now deprecated (rfc5095).
.TP
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ considerably. The default value is 16.
Note that some routers and hosts can use ICMP rate throttling. In such
a situation specifying too large number can lead to loss of some responses.
.TP
-.BI \-n
+.B \-n
Do not try to map IP addresses to host names when displaying them.
.TP
.BI \-p " port" ", --port=" port
@@ -236,13 +236,13 @@ Determines how long to wait for a respon
.br
There are three (in general) float values separated by a comma
(or a slash).
-.IR Max
+.I Max
specifies the maximum time (in seconds, default 5.0) to wait, in any case.
.br
.br
Traditional traceroute implementation always waited whole
-.IR max
+.I max
seconds for any probe. But if we already have some replies from the
.B same
hop, or even from some
@@ -253,15 +253,15 @@ to determine the actual reasonable amoun
.br
The optional
-.IR here
+.I here
(default 3.0) specifies a factor to multiply the round trip time of an already
received response from the
.B same
hop. The resulting value is used as a timeout for the probe, instead of
(but no more than)
-.IR max\fR.
+.IR max .
The optional
-.IR near
+.I near
(default 10.0) specifies a similar factor for a response from some
.B next
hop.
@@ -275,24 +275,24 @@ hop (of the probe which will be printed
If nothing found, then look for some
.B next
hop. If nothing found, use
-.IR max\fR.
+.IR max .
If
-.IR here
+.I here
and/or
-.IR near
+.I near
have zero values, the corresponding computation is skipped.
.br
-.IR Here
+.I Here
and
-.IR near
+.I near
are always set to zero if only
-.IR max
+.I max
is specified (for compatibility with previous versions).
.TP
.BI \-q " nqueries" ", --queries=" nqueries
Sets the number of probe packets per hop. The default is 3.
.TP
-.BI \-r
+.B \-r
Bypass the normal routing tables and send directly to a host on
an attached network. If the host is not on a directly-attached
network, an error is returned. This option can be used to ping a
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ To print information about available opt
Use UDP to particular destination port for tracerouting (instead of increasing
the port per each probe). Default port is 53 (dns).
.TP
-.BI \-UL
+.B \-UL
Use UDPLITE for tracerouting (default port is 53).
.TP
.B \-D, \-\-dccp
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ Use DCCP Requests for probes.
Use raw packet of specified protocol for tracerouting. Default protocol is
253 (rfc3692).
.TP
-.BI \--mtu
+.B \-\-mtu
Discover MTU along the path being traced. Implies
.BR \-F\ \-N\ 1 .
New
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ See
.B \-F
option for more info.
.TP
-.BI \--back
+.B \-\-back
Print the number of backward hops when it seems different with the forward
direction. This number is guessed in assumption that remote hops send reply
packets with initial ttl set to either 64, or 128 or 255 (which seems
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ This method may be allowed for unprivile
since the kernel 3.0 (IPv4, for IPv6 since 3.11), which supports new
.I dgram icmp
(or
-.IR \fR"\fIping\fR")
+.RI """" ping """)"
sockets. To allow such sockets, sysadmin should provide
.I net/ipv4/ping_group_range
sysctl range to match any group of the user.
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ Options:
.TP
.B service\fR=\fInum
Set DCCP service code to
-.IR num
+.I num
(default is 1885957735).
.SS raw \ \ \ \ \-P proto
Send raw packet of protocol
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