From 9c26c6a8c82a1e63c27f25cb9ee654f8a5f6aa6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Bluhm Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 21:28:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Move multicast restrictions from change log to man page caveats. --- Changes | 4 +--- udpbench.1 | 10 +++++++++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 0ed9bbc..1bccdea 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ Revision history for udpbench udp network benchmarking tool. 1.12 2025-01-09 * Implement sending and receiving IPv4 and IPv6 UDP multicast - packets. Note that using -r remotessh together with multicast - usually does not work as interface address and name are different - on remote machine. + packets. 1.11 2024-08-11 * Command line option -C allows to specify a OpenBSD network diff --git a/udpbench.1 b/udpbench.1 index cd35286..26cf170 100644 --- a/udpbench.1 +++ b/udpbench.1 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .Op Fl B Ar bitrate .Op Fl b Ar bufsize .Op Fl d Ar delay -.Op Fl i Ar ifaddr +.Op Fl I Ar ifaddr .Op Fl i Ar idle .Op Fl L Ar loop .Op Fl l Ar length @@ -295,6 +295,14 @@ The .Nm program was written by .An Alexander Bluhm Aq Mt bluhm@genua.de . +.Sh CAVEATS +Using +.Fl r Ar remotessh +together with multicast groups usually does not work. +The interface address and name +are different on the remote machine, but +.Fl I Ar ifaddr +affects both local and remote. .Sh BUGS The number of ethernet frames and their size is calculated. With vlan or jumbo it will be wrong.