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authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2016-05-08 15:58:34 -0400
committerDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2016-05-17 16:55:20 -0400
commitde25aae110edb2f99a6665c46d5fa8ba78946cd4 (patch)
treec593c7f83d81dd395fb73aae6d8ef1f202fa4088
parentd6f5a432b08a2fd8652514735f8e2b51146cdcbb (diff)
man: clarify different uses of MACAddress
Improve the networkd documentation to clarify that Match.MACAddress is for selection, but Link.MACAddress describes an action to be taken.
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.network.xml5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml
index 70e3804746..35800be732 100644
--- a/man/systemd.network.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.network.xml
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>MACAddress=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>The hardware address.</para>
+ <para>The hardware address of the interface (use full colon-delimited hexadecimal, e.g.,
+ 01:23:45:67:89:ab).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -198,7 +199,7 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>MACAddress=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>The hardware address.</para>
+ <para>The hardware address to set for the device.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>