LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

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@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 .\" This man page is Copyright (C) 1999 Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>.
+.\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM_ONE_PARA)
 .\" Permission is granted to distribute possibly modified copies
 .\" of this page provided the header is included verbatim,
 .\" and in case of nontrivial modification author and date
 .\" of the modification is added to the header.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
+.\"
 .\" $Id: icmp.7,v 1.6 2000/08/14 08:03:45 ak Exp $
+.\"
 .TH ICMP 7 2012-05-10 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 icmp \- Linux IPv4 ICMP kernel module.
@@ -41,7 +46,7 @@ The parameters can be accessed by reading or writing files in the directory
 .IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ .
 Most of these parameters are rate limitations for specific ICMP types.
 Linux 2.2 uses a token bucket filter to limit ICMPs.
-.\" FIXME better description needed
+.\" FIXME . better description needed
 The value is the timeout in jiffies until the token bucket filter is
 cleared after a burst.
 A jiffy is a system dependent unit, usually 10ms on i386 and
@@ -122,11 +127,12 @@ Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
 .br
 Default mask:     0000001100000011000 (0x1818)
 
-Bit definitions (see the kernel source file
+Bit definitions (see the Linux kernel source file
 .IR include/linux/icmp.h ):
 
-.in +4n
-.nf
+.RS 12
+.TS
+l l.
 0 Echo Reply
 3 Destination Unreachable *
 4 Source Quench *
@@ -140,8 +146,8 @@ F Info Request
 G Info Reply
 H Address Mask Request
 I Address Mask Reply
-.fi
-.in
+.TE
+.RE
 
 The bits marked with an asterisk are rate limited by default
 (see the default mask above).
@@ -171,7 +177,7 @@ should not be relied on in portable programs.
 .PP
 .B ICMP_REDIRECT
 packets are not sent when Linux is not acting as a router.
-They are also only accepted from the old gateway defined in the
+They are also accepted only from the old gateway defined in the
 routing table and the redirect routes are expired after some time.
 .PP
 The 64-bit timestamp returned by
@@ -182,7 +188,16 @@ Linux ICMP internally uses a raw socket to send ICMPs.
 This raw socket may appear in
 .BR netstat (8)
 output with a zero inode.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR ip (7)
 .PP
 RFC\ 792 for a description of the ICMP protocol.
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.