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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-12-20 09:22:17 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-12-20 09:22:17 +0000
commit88b50646f17faf0208d0accbd434a7aecd92dcc3 (patch)
tree7b338c13a1ebc3e55396d1f9264b9ad44a989064 /usr.sbin
parent48e4662762e493947987bfe372ffab3111c83f2a (diff)
some wording improvements;
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.831
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.8 b/usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.8
index 3e35165118e..0bd55868c8c 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: rtadvd.8,v 1.21 2005/10/27 18:26:13 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rtadvd.8,v 1.22 2005/12/20 09:22:16 jmc Exp $
.\" $KAME: rtadvd.8,v 1.18 2002/04/28 10:43:02 jinmei Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 WIDE Project.
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@
.Ar interface ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
-sends router advertisement packets to the specified
-.Ar interfaces .
+sends router advertisement packets to the specified interfaces.
.Pp
The program will daemonize itself on invocation.
It will then send router advertisement packets periodically, as well
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ described in
.Xr rtadvd.conf 5 .
.Pp
If there is no configuration file entry for an interface,
-or if the configuration file does not exist altogether,
+or if the configuration file does not exist at all,
.Nm
sets all the parameters to their default values.
In particular,
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ However, it would sometimes be useful to allow hosts to advertise some
parameters such as prefix information and link MTU.
Thus,
.Nm
-can be invoked if router lifetime is explicitly set zero on every
+can be invoked if router lifetime is explicitly set to zero on every
advertising interface.
.Pp
The command line options are:
@@ -97,7 +96,9 @@ By default,
.Pa /etc/rtadvd.conf
is used.
.It Fl D
-Even more debugging information is printed.
+Even more debugging information than that offered by the
+.Fl d
+option is printed.
.It Fl d
Print debugging information.
.It Fl f
@@ -118,7 +119,9 @@ option, which enables routing renumbering protocol support.
.\"permitted configuration directives.
.It Fl R
Accept router renumbering requests.
-If you enable it, certain IPsec setup is suggested for security reasons.
+If you enable it, an
+.Xr ipsec 4
+setup is suggested for security reasons.
.\"On KAME-based systems,
.\".Xr rrenumd 8
.\"generates router renumbering request packets.
@@ -146,17 +149,15 @@ In this case,
will transmit router advertisement with router lifetime 0
to all the interfaces
.Pq in accordance with RFC 2461 6.2.5 .
-.Sh RETURN VALUES
-The
-.Nm
-program exits 0 on success, and >0 on failures.
+.Pp
+.Ex -std rtadvd
.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
+.Bl -tag -width "/var/run/rtadvd.dumpXX" -compact
.It Pa /etc/rtadvd.conf
The default configuration file.
.It Pa /var/run/rtadvd.pid
-contains the pid of the currently running
-.Nm rtadvd .
+Contains the PID of the currently running
+.Nm .
.It Pa /var/run/rtadvd.dump
The file in which
.Nm
@@ -176,6 +177,6 @@ advertise Router Advertisement messages on an upstream link to avoid
undesirable
.Xr icmp6 4
redirect messages.
-However, based on the later discussion in the IETF IPng working group,
+However, based on later discussion in the IETF IPng working group,
all routers should rather advertise the messages regardless of
the network topology, in order to ensure reachability.