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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-06-12 12:33:20 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-06-12 12:33:20 +0000
commit6fd857cc505ab813edd337f7effa013bb91b23fd (patch)
treee36cf003aa75270f9bd7d07b87d066aba9afe5b6 /share
parentf2554e7ea4f981e8323a53a8668a7e633ccdb158 (diff)
sppp does not just work with synchronous lines; help from reyk
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-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/sppp.410
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/sppp.4 b/share/man/man4/sppp.4
index 5858861efe9..80932f01d33 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/sppp.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/sppp.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sppp.4,v 1.12 2006/05/18 15:38:57 reyk Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sppp.4,v 1.13 2006/06/12 12:33:19 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Joerg Wunsch
.\"
@@ -30,19 +30,19 @@
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sppp
-.Nd point to point protocol network layer for synchronous lines
+.Nd PPP and Link Control Protocol
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "pseudo-device sppp" Op Ar count
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-network layer implements the state machine and the Link Control
+network layer implements the state machine and Link Control
Protocol (LCP) of the
-.Em point to point protocol (PPP)
+Point To Point Protocol (PPP)
as described in RFC 1661.
Note that this layer does not provide network interfaces of its own, it is
rather intended to be layered on
-top of drivers providing a synchronous point-to-point connection that
+top of drivers providing a point-to-point connection that
wish to run a PPP stack over it.
The corresponding network interfaces have to be provided by these hardware
drivers.