From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jul 24 10:30:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA13263 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA13249; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <199707241730.KAA13249@hub.freebsd.org> Resent-From: gnats (GNATS Management) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats@FreeBSD.ORG, k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp Received: from mail.yk.rim.or.jp (root@mail.yk.rim.or.jp [202.247.130.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA12960 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ppp092.yk.rim.or.jp [202.247.134.92]) by mail.yk.rim.or.jp (8.8.5/3.4Wbeta6-rim1.1) with ESMTP id CAA19111; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 02:24:51 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199707241724.CAA19111@mail.yk.rim.or.jp> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 02:24:00 +0900 From: k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp Reply-To: k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: docs/4161: manpage arp.8's "`auto''" is unballanced. Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Number: 4161 >Category: docs >Synopsis: manpage arp.8's "`auto''" is unballanced. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 24 10:30:01 PDT 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Kazuo Horikawa >Organization: personal user >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 >Environment: .\" @(#)arp.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 >Description: manpage arp.8's "`auto''" is unballanced. "man arp" shows following output: host address is not its own. In this case the ether_addr can be given as `auto'' in which case the interfaces on this host will be examined, and if one of them is found to occupy the same sub- net, its ether_addr will be used. >How-To-Repeat: % man arp >Fix: --- arp.8.bak Fri Jul 25 02:11:56 1997 +++ arp.8 Mon Jul 21 03:00:34 1997 @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ responding to requests for .Ar hostname even though the host address is not its own. -In this case the ether_addr can be given as `auto'' +In this case the ether_addr can be given as ``auto'' in which case the interfaces on this host will be examined, and if one of them is found to occupy the same subnet, its ether_addr will be used. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: