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Diffstat (limited to 'sys')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/arch/alpha/stand/setnetbootinfo/setnetbootinfo.8 | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/alpha/stand/setnetbootinfo/setnetbootinfo.8 b/sys/arch/alpha/stand/setnetbootinfo/setnetbootinfo.8 index ee787a94a66..816ef55bd6c 100644 --- a/sys/arch/alpha/stand/setnetbootinfo/setnetbootinfo.8 +++ b/sys/arch/alpha/stand/setnetbootinfo/setnetbootinfo.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: setnetbootinfo.8,v 1.7 2007/05/31 19:20:02 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: setnetbootinfo.8,v 1.8 2009/02/01 10:48:57 sobrado Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: setnetbootinfo.8,v 1.2 1997/04/06 08:41:36 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997 Christopher G. Demetriou. All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 1 2009 $ .Dt SETNETBOOTINFO 8 alpha .Os .Sh NAME @@ -52,18 +52,18 @@ The utility configures the OpenBSD/alpha network bootstrap program so that it can be used to bootstrap systems with old firmware revisions. .Pp -The OpenBSD/alpha network bootstrap program needs to have the ethernet +The OpenBSD/alpha network bootstrap program needs to have the Ethernet address of the interface being used to boot the system available when querying other hosts on the network for bootstrapping information. Alpha systems with old firmware revisions provide no way for -network bootstrap programs to determine the ethernet address of +network bootstrap programs to determine the Ethernet address of the interface that they are booting from, and so the OpenBSD/alpha network bootstrap program must find that information in another way. -(Newer firmware revisions include the ethernet address in the name of +(Newer firmware revisions include the Ethernet address in the name of the device that is being booted from.) The .Nm -utility encodes an ethernet address (and other information) directly +utility encodes an Ethernet address (and other information) directly into the network bootstrap program. .Pp The options recognized by @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The options recognized by are as follows: .Bl -tag -width flag .It Fl a Ar ether-address -Encode the given ethernet address into the network bootstrap program. +Encode the given Ethernet address into the network bootstrap program. (This option and the .Fl h option are mutually exclusive.) @@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ program to be used regardless of whether or not the bootstrap program can get address information from the booting system's firmware. .It Fl h Ar ether-host -Encode the ethernet address of the specified host into the network +Encode the Ethernet address of the specified host into the network bootstrap program. -The host's name is translated to an ethernet address using the +The host's name is translated to an Ethernet address using the .Xr ether_hostton 3 function. (This option and the @@ -97,10 +97,10 @@ If the .Fl o flag is not specified, the output file name will be the name of the input bootstrap program concatenated with a -period and the digits of the ethernet address being encoded. +period and the digits of the Ethernet address being encoded. For instance, if the input file is named .Pa /usr/mdec/netboot -and is being configured to encode the ethernet address +and is being configured to encode the Ethernet address .Li 08:00:2b:bd:5d:fd , then the default output file name would be .Pa /usr/mdec/netboot.08002bbd5dfd . |