rtnetlink.7: Minor wording fixes

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2010-09-22 16:27:33 +02:00
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@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ Rtnetlink allows the kernel's routing tables to be read and altered.
It is used within the kernel to communicate between
various subsystems, though this usage is not documented here, and for
communication with user-space programs.
Network routes, ip addresses, link parameters, neighbor setups, queueing
Network routes, IP addresses, link parameters, neighbor setups, queueing
disciplines, traffic classes and packet classifiers may all be controlled
through
.B NETLINK_ROUTE
sockets.
It is based on netlink messages, see
It is based on netlink messages; see
.BR netlink (7)
for more information.
.\" FIXME ? all these macros could be moved to rtnetlink(3)
@ -105,14 +105,14 @@ The value type for IFLA_STATS is \fIstruct net_device_stats\fP.
.BR RTM_NEWADDR ", " RTM_DELADDR ", " RTM_GETADDR
Add, remove or receive information about an IP address associated with
an interface.
In Linux 2.2 an interface can carry multiple IP addresses,
In Linux 2.2, an interface can carry multiple IP addresses,
this replaces the alias device concept in 2.0.
In Linux 2.2 these messages
In Linux 2.2, these messages
support IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
They contain an
.I ifaddrmsg
structure, optionally followed by
.I rtaddr
.I rtattr
routing attributes.
.nf
@ -168,16 +168,16 @@ structure with an optional sequence of
.I rtattr
structures following.
For
.B RTM_GETROUTE
.BR RTM_GETROUTE ,
setting
.I rtm_dst_len
and
.I rtm_src_len
to 0 means you get all entries for the specified routing table.
For the other fields except
For the other fields, except
.I rtm_table
and
.I rtm_protocol
.IR rtm_protocol ,
0 is the wildcard.
.nf