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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-04 16:13:36 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-04 16:13:36 +0000
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.Dd 13 June, 1999
+.Dd June 13, 1999
.Os
.Dt IPL 4
.Sh NAME
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ is
and the second is
.Fa ipflog .
Both are declared in
-.Pa netinet/ip_fil.h .
+.Aq Pa netinet/ip_fil.h .
and their formats are as follows:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
struct iplog {
@@ -46,15 +46,15 @@ struct ipflog {
}
.Ed
.Pp
-In the case of the header causing the buffer to finish on a non-32bit
+In the case of the header causing the buffer to finish on a non-32-bit
boundary, padding will be appended to ensure that the next log entry
-is aligned to a 32bit boundary.
+is aligned to a 32-bit boundary.
.Pp
If the packet content is more than 128 bytes, only
the first 128 bytes of the
-packet content are logged. Should the packet content finish on a non-32bit
+packet content are logged. Should the packet content finish on a non-32-bit
boundary, then the last few bytes are not logged to ensure the log entry
-is aligned to a 32bit boundary.
+is aligned to a 32-bit boundary.
.Pp
.Nm
is a read-only (sequential) character pseudo-device.
@@ -70,10 +70,13 @@ This ioctl flushes the log buffer and returns the number of bytes flushed.
There is currently no support for non-blocking IO with this device, meaning
all read operations should be considered blocking in nature (if there is no
data to read, it will sleep until some is made available).
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /dev/ipl -compact
+.It Pa /dev/ipl
+IP packet logging pseudo-device
+.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ipf 4 ,
.Xr ipmon 8
.Sh BUGS
Packet headers are dropped when the internal buffer (static size) fills.
-.Sh FILES
-.Pa /dev/ipl