On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Antony Stone wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 6:25 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > following the man page, i wanted to see just the information > > about symbolic names for ICMP types with: > > > > $ iptables -p icmp -h > > > > but i got what looks like the full online help. should i have > > expected this? > > I get the normal full help, followed by the ICMP-specific help. this seems to be overkill, no? i mean, if i type "iptables -p icmp -h", i figured i would get just the ICMP-specific stuff. is this worth a bugzilla RFE? rday