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authorJeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@cvs.openbsd.org>2018-07-09 14:11:01 +0000
committerJeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@cvs.openbsd.org>2018-07-09 14:11:01 +0000
commit6182cfbb1a3125081deb3e74b30e26a80a8705dc (patch)
tree2cd6293183a7ca8039c706e6c299129fde172b20 /sbin
parent0207145c2efbf0cd38b274584faf7d330577348d (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.813
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