add note on -i default being changed

8 years ago · d22a3ccb00
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    sometimes getting in the way (for example if you try to ping a lot of
    hosts).

+  * INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: default interval (-i) changed from 25ms to 10ms
+
+    The default minimum interval between ping probes has been changed from
+    25ms to 10ms. The reason is that 25ms is very high, considering today's
+    fast networks: it generates at most 31 kbps of traffic (for IPv4 and
+    default payload size).
+
  * (feature) Unified 'fping' and 'fping6' into one binary (#80)
  * (feature) Long option names for all options
  * (feature) --enable-ipv6 is now default