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author | Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2018-07-09 14:11:01 +0000 |
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committer | Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2018-07-09 14:11:01 +0000 |
commit | 6182cfbb1a3125081deb3e74b30e26a80a8705dc (patch) | |
tree | 2cd6293183a7ca8039c706e6c299129fde172b20 /sbin | |
parent | 0207145c2efbf0cd38b274584faf7d330577348d (diff) |
Kill fluff about how route(8) is of limited usefulness
Don't say that route(8) is mostly useful to set up a default route,
which is almost a lie. What's more, I'm not sure new users struggling
with route(8) should be pointed to ripd(8) (sic) or bgpd(8) as
a solution to their problems. ok benno@ kn@
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
-rw-r--r-- | sbin/route/route.8 | 13 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/route/route.8 b/sbin/route/route.8 index d500bfcea84..bc011881b14 100644 --- a/sbin/route/route.8 +++ b/sbin/route/route.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: route.8,v 1.85 2018/04/30 15:06:18 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: route.8,v 1.86 2018/07/09 14:11:00 jca Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: route.8,v 1.6 1995/03/18 15:00:13 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)route.8 8.3 (Berkeley) 3/19/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 30 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 9 2018 $ .Dt ROUTE 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -48,15 +48,6 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is a utility used to manually view and manipulate the network routing tables. -Except for setting up the default route, it normally is not needed to -manipulate routes, as a -system routing table management daemon, such as -.Xr ripd 8 , -.Xr ospfd 8 , -or -.Xr bgpd 8 , -should tend to this task. -.Pp .Nm can be used to modify nearly any aspect of the routing policy, except packet forwarding, which can be manipulated through the |