Module Name: src
Committed By: snj
Date: Mon Jan 11 00:05:44 UTC 2010
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man4 [netbsd-5]: faith.4
Log Message:
Pull up following revision(s) (requested by mbalmer in ticket #1229):
share/man/man4/faith.4: revision 1.11
Various language fixes. From FreeBSD.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.10 -r1.10.40.1 src/share/man/man4/faith.4
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/share/man/man4/faith.4
diff -u src/share/man/man4/faith.4:1.10 src/share/man/man4/faith.4:1.10.40.1
--- src/share/man/man4/faith.4:1.10 Sun Sep 7 16:22:27 2003
+++ src/share/man/man4/faith.4 Mon Jan 11 00:05:44 2010
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: faith.4,v 1.10 2003/09/07 16:22:27 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: faith.4,v 1.10.40.1 2010/01/11 00:05:44 snj Exp $
.\" $KAME: faith.4,v 1.10 2001/06/30 00:42:48 itojun Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 WIDE Project.
@@ -53,15 +53,15 @@
subcommands.
.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
@@ -73,43 +73,42 @@
and perform application-specific address mapping to relay IPv6 TCP to IPv4 TCP.
.Pp
.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.
.\"
@@ -126,5 +125,5 @@
.%D June 2001
.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.
