From: Florian Forster <octo@verplant.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:31:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: oping(8): Document the displayed "qos=" field.
X-Git-Tag: liboping-1.5.0~3^2
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ecb10b2c96688a219107d40849510944314fb96b;p=liboping.git

oping(8): Document the displayed "qos=" field.
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diff --git a/src/mans/oping.pod b/src/mans/oping.pod
index b495a89..3a7c8ac 100644
--- a/src/mans/oping.pod
+++ b/src/mans/oping.pod
@@ -141,6 +141,16 @@ decimal number (0-255), a hexadecimal number (0x00-0xff) or an octal number
 (00-0377) using the usual "0x" and "0" prefixes for hexadecimal and octal
 respectively.
 
+The printed lines will contain information about the QoS field of received
+packets if either a non-standard QoS setting was used on outgoing packets or if
+the QoS byte of incoming packets is not zero. In other words, the QoS
+information is omitted if both, the outgoing and the incoming QoS bytes are
+zero. The received byte is always interpreted as
+I<Differentiated Services Code Point> (DSCP) and
+I<Explicit Congestion Notification> (ECN), even if the deprecated
+I<Type of Service> (ToS) aliases were used to specify the bits of outgoing
+packets.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 COLORS