Commit 1c0f026e authored by Bernd Eckenfels's avatar Bernd Eckenfels

fixed wording of binary units counters and interpunctuation in netstat(8)

parent 2868186a
.TH IFCONFIG 8 "2003-02-08" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH IFCONFIG 8 "2003-05-25" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
ifconfig \- configure a network interface
.SH SYNOPSIS
......@@ -192,10 +192,10 @@ rules for the address using the
.BR ipchains(8)
command.
.LP
Since net-tools 1.61 ifconfig is printing byte counters with IEC 60027-2 units. So
1 KiB are 2^10 byte. Note, the numbers are truncated to one decimal (which can
by quite a large error if you consider 0.1 PiB is 112.589.990.684.262
bytes :)
Since net-tools 1.61 ifconfig is printing byte counters and human readable
counters with IEC 60027-2 units. So 1 KiB are 2^10 byte. Note, the numbers
are truncated to one decimal (which can by quite a large error if you
consider 0.1 PiB is 112.589.990.684.262 bytes :)
.LP
Interrupt problems with Ethernet device drivers fail with EAGAIN
.I (SIOCSIIFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable)
......
......@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ netstat \- Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masq
.P
.IR address_family_options :
.PP
.RB [ -4 ]
.RB [ -6 ]
.RB [ \-\-protocol= { inet , unix , ipx , ax25 , netrom , ddp }[, ...] ]
.RB [ \-\-unix | \-x ]
.RB [ \-\-inet | \-\-ip ]
......@@ -436,7 +438,7 @@ as it is viewed. This is unlikely to occur.
.P
.SH AUTHORS
The netstat user interface was written by Fred Baumgarten
<dc6iq@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de> the man page basically
<dc6iq@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de>, the man page basically
by Matt Welsh <mdw@tc.cornell.edu>. It was updated by
Alan Cox <Alan.Cox@linux.org> but could do with a bit more
work. It was updated again by Tuan Hoang
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