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| author |   jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2006-02-21 17:07:14 +0000 |
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| committer | jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2006-02-21 17:07:14 +0000 |
| commit | 261ffe8e249f720a5f3765abea16cc98e4a5042d (patch) | |
| tree | aec8b4775e4849784ae43050dad01fe2eb915061 | |
| parent | Readjust debug levels that crept in too low over the last few days. (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-openbsd-261ffe8e249f720a5f3765abea16cc98e4a5042d.tar.xz wireguard-openbsd-261ffe8e249f720a5f3765abea16cc98e4a5042d.zip | |
improvements from claudio:
- note that "-alias" is a synonym for "delete", and encourage the latter
- make the description of "delete" clearer
ok claudio
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 index 7531dfd62ff..b19334caad2 100644 --- a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 +++ b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.117 2006/02/20 08:50:44 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.118 2006/02/21 17:07:14 jmc Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.11 1996/01/04 21:27:29 pk Exp $ .\" $FreeBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.16 1998/02/01 07:03:29 steve Exp $ .\" @@ -291,7 +291,10 @@ Establish an additional network address for this interface. This is sometimes useful when changing network numbers, and one wishes to accept packets addressed to the old interface. .It Fl alias -Remove the specified network address alias. +A synonym for +.Cm delete . +Use of this option is discouraged in favour of +.Cm delete . .It Cm anycast (inet6 only) Set the IPv6 anycast address bit. @@ -362,9 +365,8 @@ extra console error logging. .It Fl debug Disable driver-dependent debugging code. .It Cm delete -Remove the network address specified. -This would be used if you incorrectly specified an alias, or it -was no longer needed. +Remove the specified network address, +including any netmask or destination address configured with this address. .It Cm deletetunnel .Pf ( Xr gif 4 and |