git: 019993dd43 - main - Typos and improvements in network chapter
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:37:17 UTC
The branch main has been updated by carlavilla:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=019993dd43ff2c538b440924c2db2c670e665d7d
commit 019993dd43ff2c538b440924c2db2c670e665d7d
Author: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-07-13 09:36:21 +0000
Commit: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-07-13 09:37:09 +0000
Typos and improvements in network chapter
Reported by: karels@
Sponsored by: Daifressh
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.../content/en/books/handbook/network/_index.adoc | 15 +++++++--------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/network/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/network/_index.adoc
index 45e4a1a6bd..2a05310e37 100644
--- a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/network/_index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/network/_index.adoc
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ em0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
This section provides a guide to configuring a static IPv4 address on a FreeBSD system.
-The network interface card (NIC) configuration can be performed from the command line with man:ifconfig[8] but will not persist after a reboot unless the configuration is also added to [.filename]#/etc/rc.conf#.
+The network interface card configuration can be performed from the command line with man:ifconfig[8] but will not persist after a reboot unless the configuration is also added to [.filename]#/etc/rc.conf#.
[NOTE]
====
@@ -493,20 +493,19 @@ To assign a default router, specify its address executing the following command:
=== Configuring Dynamic IPv6 Address
If the network has a DHCP server, it is very easy to configure the network interface to use DHCP.
-FreeBSD uses man:dhclient[8] as the DHCP client.
man:dhclient[8] will provide automatically the IP, the netmask and the default router.
To make the interface works with DHCP execute the following command:
[source,shell]
....
-# sysrc ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 DHCP accept_rtadv"
+# sysrc ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
# sysrc rtsold_enable="YES"
....
=== Router Advertisement and Host Auto Configuration
-This section demonstrates how to setup man:rtadvd[8] to advertise the IPv6 default route.
+This section demonstrates how to setup man:rtadvd[8] on an IPv6 router to advertise the IPv6 network prefix and default route.
To enable man:rtadvd[8], execute the following command:
@@ -793,7 +792,7 @@ The output should be similar to the following:
[.programlisting]
....
-freebsdhostname
+freebsdhostname.example.com
....
[[change-hostname]]
@@ -803,7 +802,7 @@ To change the hostname of the host and persist it across reboots execute the fol
[source,shell]
....
-# sysrc hostname="newhostname"
+# sysrc hostname="freebsdhostname.example.com"
....
[[dns]]
@@ -811,10 +810,10 @@ To change the hostname of the host and persist it across reboots execute the fol
The DNS could be understanded as a link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory[telephone directory] in which an IP is identified to a hostname and vice versa.
-There are three files who handle how a FreeBSD system interact with the DNS.
+There are three files that handle how a FreeBSD system interact with the DNS.
These three files are man:hosts[5], man:resolv.conf[5] and man:nsswitch.conf[5]
-Unless otherwise stated in the [.filename]#/etc/nsswitch.conf# file, FreeBSD will look at the addresses in the [.filename]#/etc/hosts# file and then the [.filename]#/etc/resolv.conf# file.
+Unless otherwise stated in the [.filename]#/etc/nsswitch.conf# file, FreeBSD will look at the addresses in the [.filename]#/etc/hosts# file and then the DNS information in the [.filename]#/etc/resolv.conf# file.
[NOTE]
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