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docs/man/nut-scanner.txt: document that currently different IP range …
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…scans do not parallelize together [networkupstools#2244]

Signed-off-by: Jim Klimov <[email protected]>
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Expand Up @@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ range, turning those two into single-IP queries.
Also note that some buses require IP address(es) to scan, and others have a
different behavior when exactly no addresses are specified (it is not currently
possible to mix the two behaviors in one invocation of the `nut-scanner` tool).
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Finally note that currently even if multi-threaded support is available, each
range specification is a separate fan-out of queries constrained by the timeout.
Requests to scan many single IP addresses will take a while to complete, much
longer than if they were a single range. This will be hopefully fixed in later
releases.

*-t* | *--timeout* 'timeout'::
Set the network timeout in seconds. Default timeout is 5 seconds.
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