undo wildcard loopback stuff; it was not checked by other developers

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man4/lo.4 b/share/man/man4/lo.4
index c53e9cc7e27..0491936b493 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/lo.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/lo.4
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: lo.4,v 1.2 1998/02/01 18:31:57 mickey Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: lo.4,v 1.3 1994/11/30 16:22:23 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
@@ -41,7 +40,8 @@
 .Nm lo
 .Nd software loopback network interface
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Sy pseudo-device Nm loop Em <number>
+.Sy pseudo-device
+.Nm loop
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm loop
@@ -60,14 +60,6 @@ The loopback should
 .Em never
 be configured first unless no hardware
 interfaces exist.
-.Pp
-Configuring loopback interface for
-.Xr inet 4
-with
-.Em link1
-flag set you achieve a functionality such as equivalent to setting
-the whole set of addresses wich belongs to the sub/super-net of the
-address and netmask configured on the interface.
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 .Bl -diag
 .It lo%d: can't handle af%d.
@@ -75,25 +67,15 @@ The interface was handed
 a message with addresses formatted in an unsuitable address
 family; the packet was dropped.
 .El
-.Sh EXAMPLES
-ifconfig lo1 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 link1
-this would configure lo1 the way equivalent to:
-.Pp
-awk 'BEGIN {for(i=1;i<255;i++) \
-print "ifconfig lo1 inet 192.168.1."i" netmask 255.255.255.255"}'|sh
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr intro 4 ,
 .Xr inet 4 ,
-.Xr ns 4 ,
-.Xr ifconfig 8
+.Xr ns 4
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm
 device appeared in
 .Bx 4.2 .
-.Pp
-The wildcard functionality first appeared in
-.Ox 2.2 .
 .Sh BUGS
 Previous versions of the system enabled the loopback interface
 automatically, using a nonstandard Internet address (127.1).