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| author | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2016-05-08 15:58:34 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2016-05-17 16:55:20 -0400 |
| commit | de25aae110edb2f99a6665c46d5fa8ba78946cd4 (patch) | |
| tree | c593c7f83d81dd395fb73aae6d8ef1f202fa4088 /man | |
| parent | d6f5a432b08a2fd8652514735f8e2b51146cdcbb (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.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.network.xml | 5 |
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> |