svn commit: r201870 - head/share/man/man4
Christian Brueffer
brueffer at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 9 00:24:54 UTC 2010
Author: brueffer
Date: Sat Jan 9 00:24:54 2010
New Revision: 201870
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/201870
Log:
Various language fixes.
PR: 38061
Submitted by: Chris Pepper <pepper at rockefeller.edu>
MFC after: 1 week
Modified:
head/share/man/man4/faith.4
Modified: head/share/man/man4/faith.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/faith.4 Sat Jan 9 00:20:33 2010 (r201869)
+++ head/share/man/man4/faith.4 Sat Jan 9 00:24:54 2010 (r201870)
@@ -58,15 +58,15 @@ variable in
.Xr rc.conf 5 .
.Pp
Special action will be taken when IPv6 TCP traffic is seen on a router,
-and routing table suggests to route it to
+and the routing table suggests to route it to the
.Nm
interface.
In this case, the packet will be accepted by the router,
-regardless of list of IPv6 interface addresses assigned to the router.
-The packet will be captured by an IPv6 TCP socket, if it has
+regardless of the list of IPv6 interface addresses assigned to the router.
+The packet will be captured by an IPv6 TCP socket, if it has the
.Dv IN6P_FAITH
-flag turned on and it has matching address/port pairs.
-In result,
+flag turned on and matching address/port pairs.
+As a result,
.Nm
will let you capture IPv6 TCP traffic to some specific destination addresses.
Userland programs, such as
@@ -79,43 +79,42 @@ and perform application-specific address
.Pp
The
.Dv IN6P_FAITH
-flag on IPv6 TCP socket can be set by using
+flag on a IPv6 TCP socket can be set by using
.Xr setsockopt 2 ,
-with level equals to
+with level
.Dv IPPROTO_IPV6
-and optname equals to
+and optname
.Dv IPv6_FAITH .
.Pp
-To handle error reports by ICMPv6, some of ICMPv6 packets routed to
+To handle error reports by ICMPv6, some ICMPv6 packets routed to an
.Nm
interface will be delivered to IPv6 TCP, as well.
.Pp
To understand how
.Nm
-can be used, take a look at source code of
+can be used, take a look at the source code of
.Xr faithd 8 .
.Pp
-As
+As the
.Nm
-interface implements potentially dangerous operation,
-great care must be taken when configuring
-.Nm
-interface.
-To avoid possible misuse,
+interface implements potentially dangerous operations,
+great care must be taken when configuring it.
+To avoid possible misuse, the
.Xr sysctl 8
variable
.Li net.inet6.ip6.keepfaith
must be set to
.Li 1
-prior to the use of the interface.
+prior to using the interface.
When
.Li net.inet6.ip6.keepfaith
is
.Li 0 ,
-no packet will be captured by
+no packets will be captured by the
.Nm
interface.
.Pp
+The
.Nm
interface is intended to be used on routers, not on hosts.
.\"
@@ -130,5 +129,5 @@ interface is intended to be used on rout
.%O RFC3142
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
-The FAITH IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay translator was first appeared in
+The FAITH IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay translator first appeared in the
WIDE hydrangea IPv6 stack.
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