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| author | Alexandre Anriot <aanriot@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2006-04-12 14:15:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Alexandre Anriot <aanriot@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2006-04-12 14:15:04 +0000 |
| commit | 58d46986875974ae3498c270d878b3d6309c8f23 (patch) | |
| tree | 4192614508b89f40bb10c7ee433c194bbf41f3d1 /sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 | |
| parent | 1c0ed605a45091f853d51af1c33558a072b9621b (diff) | |
add a few words about how groups of interfaces can be used.
help and ok henning@ jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 index b19334caad2..71577371e3a 100644 --- a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 +++ b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.118 2006/02/21 17:07:14 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.119 2006/04/12 14:15:03 aanriot Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.11 1996/01/04 21:27:29 pk Exp $ .\" $FreeBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.16 1998/02/01 07:03:29 steve Exp $ .\" @@ -395,6 +395,12 @@ Assign the interface to a .Dq group . Any interface can be in multiple groups. .Pp +For instance, such a group could be used to create a hardware +independent +.Xr pf 4 +ruleset (i.e. not one based on the names of NICs) using +existing (egress, carp, etc.) or user-defined groups. +.Pp Cloned interfaces are members of their interface family group by default. For example, a PPP interface such as .Em ppp0 |