From: David Schweikert Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:44:31 +0000 (+0100) Subject: some more text tuning X-Git-Url: https://git.gsnw.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=06dfaef9c3c071767c7a4d2783f6a915c68291e7;p=fping.git some more text tuning --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 8b55808..fb380ea 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -30,18 +30,18 @@ fping will now discard replies, if they arrive after the defined timeout for reply packets, specified with -t. This change is relevant only for the - counting and looping modes, where the measured times should now be more + count and loop modes, where the measured times should be now more consistent (see github issue #32 for details). To prevent loosing reply packets because of this change, the default - timeout in counting and looping modes is now automatically adjusted to the + timeout in count and loop modes is now automatically adjusted to the period interval (up to 2000 ms), but it can be overriden with the -t - option. The default timeout for non-looping/counting modes remains 500 ms. + option. The default timeout for non-loop/count modes remains 500 ms. * INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: no restrictions by default - fping will not enforce that -i is >= 1 and -p >= 10 anymore, except if - you ./configure with the new '--enable-safe-limits' parameter. + fping will not enforce -i >= 1 and -p >= 10 anymore, except if you + './configure --enable-safe-limits'. The reasoning to removing the restrictions by default, is that users can clog the network with other tools anyway, and these restrictions are