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\(<= is the proper roff for <=. Fix another \*[Le] missed in the 

previous commit.  While here, properly mark up minus in -p description.
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uwe 2005-11-06 17:39:45 +00:00
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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $NetBSD: traceroute.8,v 1.25 2005/11/06 16:40:55 rpaulo Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: traceroute.8,v 1.26 2005/11/06 17:39:45 uwe Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Set the base UDP port number used in probes (default is 33434).
Traceroute hopes that nothing is listening on UDP ports
.I base
to
.I base + nhops - 1
.I base + nhops \- 1
at the destination host (so an ICMP PORT_UNREACHABLE message will
be returned to terminate the route tracing). If something is
listening on a port in the default range, this option can be used
@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ MIT C Gateway code that doesn't send "time exceeded"s. God
only knows what's going on with 12.
.PP
The silent gateway 12 in the above may be the result of a bug in
the 4.[23]BSD network code (and its derivatives): 4.x (x <= 3)
the 4.[23]BSD network code (and its derivatives): 4.x (x \(<= 3)
sends an unreachable message using whatever ttl remains in the
original datagram. Since, for gateways, the remaining ttl is
zero, the ICMP "time exceeded" is guaranteed to not make it back
@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ ICMP reply. So, the reply will time out on the return path
ICMP's) until we probe with a ttl that's at least twice the path
length. I.e., rip is really only 7 hops away. A reply that
returns with a ttl of 1 is a clue this problem exists.
Traceroute prints a "!" after the time if the ttl is \*[Le] 1.
Traceroute prints a "!" after the time if the ttl is \(<= 1.
Since vendors ship a lot of obsolete (DEC's ULTRIX, Sun 3.x) or
non-standard (HP-UX) software, expect to see this problem
frequently and/or take care picking the target host of your