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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2021-04-17 06:01:50 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2021-04-17 06:01:50 +0000
commitbd69c998da259928dd73ed09780506cb1d37a781 (patch)
tree9b247ff590c9c90ef380ede8e0d851cb79db587a /sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
parent863707458cccb62a701510730bfdc14c754ded81 (diff)
rewrite the text describing the "address" parameter into something
easier to read;
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8')
-rw-r--r--sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.818
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
index 990bb43d667..e2388145cde 100644
--- a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
+++ b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.372 2021/04/12 03:17:57 kn Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.373 2021/04/17 06:01:49 jmc 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 $
.\"
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)ifconfig.8 8.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 12 2021 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 17 2021 $
.Dt IFCONFIG 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -116,14 +116,12 @@ supported are
and
.Dq inet6 .
.It Ar address
-Internet version 4 and 6 addresses
-take the form of
-a host name present in the host name database,
-.Xr hosts 5 ;
-.Dq dot
-notation (IPv4);
-colon-separated (IPv6);
-or CIDR notation.
+An Internet version 4 or 6 address.
+Valid formats are dot notation (IPv4),
+colon-separated (IPv6),
+CIDR notation,
+or a host name present in the host name database,
+.Xr hosts 5 .
.It Ar dest_address
Specify the address of the correspondent on the other end
of a point-to-point link.