server/admin.c: Add `-quiet' options to `forcekx' and `kill'.

[tripe] / server / tripe-admin.5.in

diff --git a/server/tripe-admin.5.in b/server/tripe-admin.5.in
index e637650..3e7bd8e 100644 (file)
--- a/server/tripe-admin.5.in
+++ b/server/tripe-admin.5.in
@@ -571,10 +571,24 @@ responses are the same as for the
 .B PING
 command.
 .SP
-.BI "FORCEKX " peer
+.BI "FORCEKX \fR[" options "\fR] " peer
 Requests the server to begin a new key exchange with
 .I peer
-immediately.
+immediately.  The following options are recognized.
+.RS
+.\"+opts
+.TP
+.B "\-quiet"
+Don't actually start a new key exchange; just quietly mark any previous
+key exchange as stale so that a fresh attempt from the peer will
+succeed.  This is was introduced for use during testing, but it's also
+useful when a remote peer has forgotten about us: it would be
+annoying if, once it's learns about us and tries to reinitiate a key
+exchange, we ignore it because we think we've already done one recently;
+on the other hand, forcing a key exchange before the remote peer has
+been reinformed about us is a waste of packets.
+.\"-opts
+.RE
 .SP
 .B "GETCHAL"
 Requests a challenge.  The challenge is returned in an
@@ -620,7 +634,18 @@ message is sent to the peer if it's marked as
 .B "\-ephemeral"
 \(en see the
 .B "ADD"
-command.
+command.  The following options are
+recognized.
+.RS
+.\"+opts
+.TP
+.B "\-quiet"
+Suppress any
+.B bye
+message to an ephemeral peer: just quietly forget about it.  This is
+used during testing, and is not expected to be generally useful.
+.\"-opts
+.RE
 .SP
 .B "LIST"
 For each currently-known peer, an