Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:10:12 +0000 (UTC) From: Enji Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r342904 - head/sbin/route Message-ID: <201901100010.x0A0ACAd082554@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: ngie Date: Thu Jan 10 00:10:12 2019 New Revision: 342904 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342904 Log: route(8): clarify -prefixlen description Try to reword -prefixlen section to more clearly and accurately describe how the -prefixlen modifier works. While here, fix a word that igor considered a typo: aggregatable addresses is a valid technical term per RFC-2374, however, it was superseded by the term "aggregator" in RFC-3587. MFC after: 1 week Reviewed by: 0mp, crees Approved by: emaste (mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10087 Modified: head/sbin/route/route.8 Modified: head/sbin/route/route.8 ============================================================================== --- head/sbin/route/route.8 Wed Jan 9 22:31:10 2019 (r342903) +++ head/sbin/route/route.8 Thu Jan 10 00:10:12 2019 (r342904) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)route.8 8.3 (Berkeley) 3/19/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd February 16, 2018 +.Dd January 9, 2019 .Dt ROUTE 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -303,14 +303,14 @@ is available instead of the qualifier because non-continuous masks are not allowed in IPv6. For example, .Fl prefixlen Li 32 -specifies network mask of +specifies that a network mask of .Li ffff:ffff:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 -to be used. -The default value of prefixlen is 64 to get along with -the aggregatable address. -But 0 is assumed if +will be used. +The default prefixlen is 64. +However, it is assumed to be 0 if .Cm default -is specified. +is specified for +.Ar destination . Note that the qualifier works only for .Dv AF_INET6 address family.
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