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[src/trunk]: src/usr.sbin/rtsold wording changes. document rtsol(8) behavior...
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/37e72a668c92
branches: trunk
changeset: 480074:37e72a668c92
user: itojun <itojun%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Sun Jan 02 06:30:15 2000 +0000
description:
wording changes. document rtsol(8) behavior earlier in the document.
(sync with kame repo)
diffstat:
usr.sbin/rtsold/rtsold.8 | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diffs (93 lines):
diff -r 1e139c41c179 -r 37e72a668c92 usr.sbin/rtsold/rtsold.8
--- a/usr.sbin/rtsold/rtsold.8 Sun Jan 02 02:08:07 2000 +0000
+++ b/usr.sbin/rtsold/rtsold.8 Sun Jan 02 06:30:15 2000 +0000
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $NetBSD: rtsold.8,v 1.6 1999/12/16 05:55:52 itojun Exp $
-.\" KAME Id: rtsold.8,v 1.6 1999/12/16 05:40:08 jinmei Exp
+.\" $NetBSD: rtsold.8,v 1.7 2000/01/02 06:30:15 itojun Exp $
+.\" KAME Id: rtsold.8,v 1.8 2000/01/02 06:25:14 itojun Exp
.\"
.Dd May 17, 1998
.Dt RTSOLD 8
@@ -53,11 +53,26 @@
sends some Router Solicitations on the link destined to the link-local scope
all-routers multicast address to discover new routers
and to get non link-local addresses.
-.Lp
+.Pp
+If you invoke the program as
+.Nm rtsol ,
+it will transmit probes from the specified
+.Ar interface ,
+without becoming a daemon.
+In other words,
+.Nm rtsol
+behaves as
+.Do
+.Nm
+.Fl f1
+.Ar interfaces
+.Dc .
+.Pp
Specifically,
.Nm
sends at most 3 Router Solicitations on an interface
after one of the following events:
+.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
Just after invocation of
@@ -66,26 +81,26 @@
.It
The interface is up after a temporary interface failure.
.Nm Rtsold
-detects it by periodically probing if the status of the
-interface is active or not.
-Note that some network cards and drivers do not allow users
-to extract link state.
+detects such failures by periodically probing to see if the status
+of the interface is active or not.
+Note that some network cards and drivers do not allow the extraction
+of link state.
In such cases,
.Nm
cannot detect the change of the interface status.
.It
-Every one minute if
+Every 60 seconds if the
.Fl m
-option is specified and
+option is specified and the
.Nm
daemon cannot get the interface status.
This feature does not conform to IPv6 neighbor discovery
specification, but is provided for mobile stations.
-Default interval of router advertisements, which is on the order of 10
+Default interval for router advertisements, which is on the order of 10
minutes, is slightly long for mobile stations.
This feature is provided
for such stations so that they can find new routers as soon as possible
-when they attach another link.
+when they attach to another link.
.El
.Lp
Once
@@ -137,15 +152,6 @@
Transmit Router Solicitation packet until valid Router Advertisement packet
arrives all the interfaces more than once, then exit.
.El
-.Pp
-If you invoke the program as
-.Nm rtsol ,
-it will behave as
-.Do
-.Nm
-.Fl f1
-.Ar interfaces
-.Dc .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The program exits with 0 on success, non-zero on failures.
.\"
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