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diff --git a/man/systemd.netdev.xml b/man/systemd.netdev.xml index f7ad1a1b9b..76dee8ea34 100644 --- a/man/systemd.netdev.xml +++ b/man/systemd.netdev.xml @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ override a system-supplied configuration file with a local file if needed. As a special case, an empty file (file size 0) or symlink with the same name pointing to <filename>/dev/null</filename> - disable the configuration file entirely (it is "masked").</para> + disables the configuration file entirely (it is "masked").</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ <entry>A bond device is an aggregation of all its slave devices. See <ulink url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt">Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver HOWTO</ulink> for details.Local configuration</entry></row> <row><entry><varname>bridge</varname></entry> - <entry>A bridge device is a software switch, each of its slave devices and the bridge itself are ports of the switch.</entry></row> + <entry>A bridge device is a software switch, and each of its slave devices and the bridge itself are ports of the switch.</entry></row> <row><entry><varname>dummy</varname></entry> <entry>A dummy device drops all packets sent to it.</entry></row> @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ <entry>A persistent Level 3 tunnel between a network device and a device node.</entry></row> <row><entry><varname>veth</varname></entry> - <entry>An ethernet tunnel between a pair of network devices.</entry></row> + <entry>An Ethernet tunnel between a pair of network devices.</entry></row> <row><entry><varname>vlan</varname></entry> <entry>A VLAN is a stacked device which receives packets from its underlying device based on VLAN tagging. See <ulink url="http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/802.1Q.html">IEEE 802.1Q</ulink> for details.</entry></row> @@ -282,13 +282,13 @@ <para>The <literal>[Bridge]</literal> section only applies for netdevs of kind <literal>bridge</literal>, and accepts the - following key:</para> + following keys:</para> <variablelist class='network-directives'> <varlistentry> <term><varname>HelloTimeSec=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>HelloTimeSec specifies the number of seconds a hello packet is + <para>HelloTimeSec specifies the number of seconds between two hello packets sent out by the root bridge and the designated bridges. Hello packets are used to communicate information about the topology throughout the entire bridged local area network.</para> @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>ARPProxy=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>A boolean. When true, enables ARP proxy.</para> + <para>A boolean. When true, enables ARP proxying.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> @@ -449,14 +449,14 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>L3MissNotification=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>A boolean. When true, enables netlink IP ADDR miss + <para>A boolean. When true, enables netlink IP address miss notifications.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><varname>RouteShortCircuit=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>A boolean. When true, route short circuit is turned + <para>A boolean. When true, route short circuiting is turned on.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -549,14 +549,14 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>IPv6FlowLabel=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>Configures The 20-bit Flow Label (see <ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6437"> + <para>Configures the 20-bit flow label (see <ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6437"> RFC 6437</ulink>) field in the IPv6 header (see <ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2460"> - RFC 2460</ulink>), is used by a node to label packets of a flow. - It's only used for IPv6 Tunnels. - A Flow Label of zero is used to indicate packets that have - not been labeled. Takes following values. - When <literal>inherit</literal> it uses the original flowlabel, - or can be configured to any value between 0 to 0xFFFFF.</para> + RFC 2460</ulink>), which is used by a node to label packets of a flow. + It is only used for IPv6 tunnels. + A flow label of zero is used to indicate packets that have + not been labeled. + It can be configured to a value in the range 0–0xFFFFF, or be + set to <literal>inherit</literal>, in which case the original flowlabel is used.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>Mode=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>An <literal>ip6tnl</literal> tunnels can have three + <para>An <literal>ip6tnl</literal> tunnel can be in one of three modes <literal>ip6ip6</literal> for IPv6 over IPv6, <literal>ipip6</literal> for IPv4 over IPv6 or @@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ <para>The <literal>[Peer]</literal> section only applies for netdevs of kind <literal>veth</literal> and accepts the - following key:</para> + following keys:</para> <variablelist class='network-directives'> <varlistentry> @@ -777,9 +777,9 @@ <term><varname>LearnPacketIntervalSec=</varname></term> <listitem> <para>Specifies the number of seconds between instances where the bonding - driver sends learning packets to each slaves peer switch. - The valid range is 1–0x7fffffff; the default value is 1. This Option - has effect only in balance-tlb and balance-alb modes.</para> + driver sends learning packets to each slave peer switch. + The valid range is 1–0x7fffffff; the default value is 1. This option + has an effect only for the balance-tlb and balance-alb modes.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -788,8 +788,8 @@ <listitem> <para>Specifies the 802.3ad aggregation selection logic to use. Possible values are <literal>stable</literal>, - <literal>bandwidth</literal>, - <literal>count</literal> + <literal>bandwidth</literal> and + <literal>count</literal>. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -797,13 +797,13 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>FailOverMACPolicy=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>Specifies whether active-backup mode should set all slaves to - the same MAC address at enslavement or, when enabled, perform special handling of the + <para>Specifies whether the active-backup mode should set all slaves to + the same MAC address at the time of enslavement or, when enabled, to perform special handling of the bond's MAC address in accordance with the selected policy. The default policy is none. Possible values are <literal>none</literal>, - <literal>active</literal>, - <literal>follow</literal> + <literal>active</literal> and + <literal>follow</literal>. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -817,8 +817,8 @@ monitoring purposes. Possible values are <literal>none</literal>, <literal>active</literal>, - <literal>backup</literal>, - <literal>all</literal> + <literal>backup</literal> and + <literal>all</literal>. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ <para>Specifies the IP addresses to use as ARP monitoring peers when ARPIntervalSec is greater than 0. These are the targets of the ARP request sent to determine the health of the link to the targets. - Specify these values in ipv4 dotted decimal format. At least one IP + Specify these values in IPv4 dotted decimal format. At least one IP address must be given for ARP monitoring to function. The maximum number of targets that can be specified is 16. The default value is no IP addresses. @@ -853,8 +853,8 @@ in order for the ARP monitor to consider a slave as being up. This option affects only active-backup mode for slaves with ARPValidate enabled. Possible values are - <literal>any</literal>, - <literal>all</literal> + <literal>any</literal> and + <literal>all</literal>. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -868,8 +868,8 @@ occurs. This option is designed to prevent flip-flopping between the primary slave and other slaves. Possible values are <literal>always</literal>, - <literal>better</literal>, - <literal>failure</literal> + <literal>better</literal> and + <literal>failure</literal>. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ <para>Specify the number of packets to transmit through a slave before moving to the next one. When set to 0, then a slave is chosen at random. The valid range is 0–65535. Defaults to 1. This option - has effect only in balance-rr mode. + only has effect when in balance-rr mode. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ a peer notification is sent on the bonding device and each VLAN sub-device. This is repeated at each link monitor interval (ARPIntervalSec or MIIMonitorSec, whichever is active) if the number is - greater than 1. The valid range is 0–255. Default value is 1. + greater than 1. The valid range is 0–255. The default value is 1. These options affect only the active-backup mode. </para> </listitem> @@ -916,8 +916,8 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>AllSlavesActive=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para> A boolean. Specifies that duplicate frames (received on inactive ports) - should be dropped false or delivered true. Normally, bonding will drop + <para>A boolean. Specifies that duplicate frames (received on inactive ports) + should be dropped when false, or delivered when true. Normally, bonding will drop duplicate frames (received on inactive ports), which is desirable for most users. But there are some times it is nice to allow duplicate frames to be delivered. The default value is false (drop duplicate frames |