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authorHenning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-03-12 20:23:02 +0000
committerHenning Brauer <henning@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-03-12 20:23:02 +0000
commitaf4feff9e62f61fe5cd946bb58f01c83fd85ae58 (patch)
treea5ac83c6cf0488f1411552536b8a0157c316fd3a /usr.sbin/bgpd
parente5a3f1d744e3512e5cf3f4ffeb7e915d14763e86 (diff)
tweak
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/bgpd')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.conf.531
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.conf.5 b/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.conf.5
index e72e2bc3dd4..15dc413aa9c 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.conf.5
+++ b/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: bgpd.conf.5,v 1.19 2004/03/12 17:39:46 claudio Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: bgpd.conf.5,v 1.20 2004/03/12 20:23:01 henning Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Claudio Jeker <claudio@openbsd.org>
.\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Henning Brauer <henning@openbsd.org>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd December 23, 2003
+.Dd March 10, 2004
.Dt BGPD.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ messages in
format.
Dumping the
.Em RIB
-is normally an expensive operation but it should not influence the session
+is normally an expensive operation, but it should not influence the session
handling.
Dumping too often may result in a slow update speed.
.Pp
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ If set to
all generated
.Em UPDATE
messages will be sent to the neighbor.
-This is normally only necessary for transit
+This is usually used for transit
.Em AS's
and
.Em IBGP
@@ -271,8 +271,7 @@ peers is
which limits the sent
.Em UPDATE
messages to announcements of the local
-.Em AS
-only.
+.Em AS .
The default for
.Em IBGP
peers is
@@ -326,14 +325,14 @@ If a local-address is given it binds
to this address before.
.It Ar max-prefix
Limit amount of prefixes received.
-The default is unlimited.
+No such limit is imposed by default.
.It Ar multihop
-Normally neighbors that are not in the same AS as the local
+Neighbors not in the same AS as the local
.Ar bgpd
-have to be directly connected to the local machine.
-If this is not the case the
+normally have to be directly connected to the local machine.
+If this is not the case, the
.Ar multihop
-statement defines the maximum hops the neighbor is away.
+statement defines the maximum hops the neighbor may be away.
.It Ar passive
Do not attempt to actively open a TCP connection to the neighbor system.
.It Ar remote-as
@@ -397,7 +396,7 @@ The
.Em UPDATE
is passed.
.It Ar match
-Apply only the filter attribute set without influencing the action to be taken.
+Apply the filter attribute set without influencing the filter decision.
.El
.Sh PARAMETERS
The rule parameters specify the
@@ -439,7 +438,7 @@ for the specified prefix.
This rule applies only to
.Em UPDATES
for prefixes where the prefixlen matches.
-Ranges of prefix length are specified by using these operators:
+Prefix length ranges are specified by using these operators:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
= (equal)
!= (unequal)
@@ -475,12 +474,6 @@ than 16:
prefix 10.0.0.0/8 prefixlen > 16
.Ed
.Pp
-The following two examples are alike:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-prefix 10.0.0.0/8
-prefix 10.0.0.0/8 prefixlen = 8
-.Ed
-.Pp
.It Ar <astype> <asnum>
This rule applies only to
.Em UPDATES