[PATCH] traceroute: add missing description of -i option to usage text

Alex Dowad alexinbeijing at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 08:28:54 UTC 2015


I thought that BusyBox traceroute didn't allow the user to set the source
interface, and was searching all around for an alternative... until I
looked at the source and discovered it was there all along. This will
help other users to avoid making the same mistake.

Signed-off-by: Alex Dowad <alexinbeijing at gmail.com>
---
 networking/traceroute.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/networking/traceroute.c b/networking/traceroute.c
index 97a7a19..0e62b44 100644
--- a/networking/traceroute.c
+++ b/networking/traceroute.c
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@
 //usage:     "\n	-r	Bypass routing tables, send directly to HOST"
 //usage:     "\n	-v	Verbose"
 //usage:     "\n	-m	Max time-to-live (max number of hops)"
+//usage:     "\n	-i  Interface to use as source"
 //usage:     "\n	-p	Base UDP port number used in probes"
 //usage:     "\n		(default 33434)"
 //usage:     "\n	-q	Number of probes per TTL (default 3)"
@@ -246,6 +247,7 @@
 //usage:     "\n	-r	Bypass routing tables, send directly to HOST"
 //usage:     "\n	-v	Verbose"
 //usage:     "\n	-m	Max time-to-live (max number of hops)"
+//usage:     "\n	-i  Interface to use as source"
 //usage:     "\n	-p	Base UDP port number used in probes"
 //usage:     "\n		(default is 33434)"
 //usage:     "\n	-q	Number of probes per TTL (default 3)"
-- 
2.0.0.GIT



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