some more text tuning

pull/89/merge
David Schweikert 8 years ago
parent 5d84ad4c94
commit 06dfaef9c3

@ -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

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