Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 02:24:00 +0900 From: k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: docs/4161: manpage arp.8's "`auto''" is unballanced. Message-ID: <199707241724.CAA19111@mail.yk.rim.or.jp> Resent-Message-ID: <199707241730.KAA13249@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 4161 >Category: docs >Synopsis: manpage arp.8's "`auto''" is unballanced. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 24 10:30:01 PDT 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Kazuo Horikawa >Organization: personal user >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 >Environment: .\" @(#)arp.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 >Description: manpage arp.8's "`auto''" is unballanced. "man arp" shows following output: host address is not its own. In this case the ether_addr can be given as `auto'' in which case the interfaces on this host will be examined, and if one of them is found to occupy the same sub- net, its ether_addr will be used. >How-To-Repeat: % man arp >Fix: --- arp.8.bak Fri Jul 25 02:11:56 1997 +++ arp.8 Mon Jul 21 03:00:34 1997 @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ responding to requests for .Ar hostname even though the host address is not its own. -In this case the ether_addr can be given as `auto'' +In this case the ether_addr can be given as ``auto'' in which case the interfaces on this host will be examined, and if one of them is found to occupy the same subnet, its ether_addr will be used. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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