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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-12-20 09:22:17 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-12-20 09:22:17 +0000 |
commit | 88b50646f17faf0208d0accbd434a7aecd92dcc3 (patch) | |
tree | 7b338c13a1ebc3e55396d1f9264b9ad44a989064 /usr.sbin | |
parent | 48e4662762e493947987bfe372ffab3111c83f2a (diff) |
some wording improvements;
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/rtadvd/rtadvd.8 | 31 |
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. |