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authoryar <yar@FreeBSD.org>2005-09-22 11:49:52 +0000
committeryar <yar@FreeBSD.org>2005-09-22 11:49:52 +0000
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Since special interface types get their own subsections
(not in mdoc(7) sense yet) in ifconfig(8) manpage, create such subsections for gif(4) and vlan(4) so that their specific options are not mixed up with general options.
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1 files changed, 104 insertions, 98 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
index f6d99ab..85cf484 100644
--- a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
+++ b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
@@ -336,6 +336,19 @@ support, the exact level of offloading varies between drivers.
If the driver supports user-configurable checksum offloading,
disable receive (or transmit) checksum offloading on the interface.
These settings may not always be independent of each other.
+.It Cm vlanmtu , vlanhwtag
+If the driver offers user-configurable VLAN support, enable
+reception of extended frames or tag processing in hardware,
+respectively.
+Note that this must be issued on a physical interface associated with
+.Xr vlan 4 ,
+not on a
+.Xr vlan 4
+interface itself.
+.It Fl vlanmtu , vlanhwtag
+If the driver offers user-configurable VLAN support, disable
+reception of extended frames or tag processing in hardware,
+respectively.
.It Cm polling
If the driver has user-configurable
.Xr polling 4
@@ -344,21 +357,6 @@ support, select the polling mode on the interface.
If the driver has user-configurable
.Xr polling 4
support, select the interrupt mode on the interface.
-.It Cm tunnel Ar src_addr dest_addr
-(IP tunnel devices only.)
-Configure the physical source and destination address for IP tunnel
-interfaces
-.Pq Xr gif 4 .
-The arguments
-.Ar src_addr
-and
-.Ar dest_addr
-are interpreted as the outer source/destination for the encapsulating
-IPv4/IPv6 header.
-.It Cm deletetunnel
-Unconfigure the physical source and destination address for IP tunnel
-interfaces previously configured with
-.Cm tunnel .
.It Cm create
Create the specified network pseudo-device.
If the interface is given without a unit number, try to create a new
@@ -384,89 +382,6 @@ parameter.
Included for
.Tn Solaris
compatibility.
-.It Cm vlan Ar vlan_tag
-If the interface is a
-.Xr vlan 4
-pseudo interface, set the VLAN tag value
-to
-.Ar vlan_tag .
-This value is a 16-bit number which is used to create an 802.1Q
-VLAN header for packets sent from the
-.Xr vlan 4
-interface.
-Note that
-.Cm vlan
-and
-.Cm vlandev
-must both be set at the same time.
-.It Cm vlandev Ar iface
-If the interface is a
-.Xr vlan 4
-pseudo device, associate physical interface
-.Ar iface
-with it.
-Packets transmitted through the
-.Xr vlan 4
-interface will be
-diverted to the specified physical interface
-.Ar iface
-with 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation.
-Packets with 802.1Q encapsulation received
-by the parent interface with the correct VLAN tag will be diverted to
-the associated
-.Xr vlan 4
-pseudo-interface.
-The
-.Xr vlan 4
-interface is assigned a
-copy of the parent interface's flags and the parent's ethernet address.
-The
-.Cm vlandev
-and
-.Cm vlan
-must both be set at the same time.
-If the
-.Xr vlan 4
-interface already has
-a physical interface associated with it, this command will fail.
-To
-change the association to another physical interface, the existing
-association must be cleared first.
-.Pp
-Note: if the hardware tagging capability
-is set on the parent interface, the
-.Xr vlan 4
-pseudo
-interface's behavior changes:
-the
-.Xr vlan 4
-interface recognizes that the
-parent interface supports insertion and extraction of VLAN tags on its
-own (usually in firmware) and that it should pass packets to and from
-the parent unaltered.
-.It Fl vlandev Ar iface
-If the driver is a
-.Xr vlan 4
-pseudo device, disassociate the physical interface
-.Ar iface
-from it.
-This breaks the link between the
-.Xr vlan 4
-interface and its parent,
-clears its VLAN tag, flags and its link address and shuts the interface down.
-.It Cm vlanmtu , vlanhwtag
-If the driver offers user-configurable VLAN support, enable
-reception of extended frames or tag processing in hardware,
-respectively.
-Note that this must be issued on a physical interface associated with
-.Xr vlan 4 ,
-not on a
-.Xr vlan 4
-interface itself.
-.It Fl vlanmtu , vlanhwtag
-If the driver offers user-configurable VLAN support, disable
-reception of extended frames or tag processing in hardware,
-respectively.
.It Cm metric Ar n
Set the routing metric of the interface to
.Ar n ,
@@ -1226,6 +1141,97 @@ The default is 55.
The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 65535.
.El
.Pp
+The following parameters are specific to IP tunnel interfaces,
+.Xr gif 4 :
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Cm tunnel Ar src_addr dest_addr
+Configure the physical source and destination address for IP tunnel
+interfaces.
+The arguments
+.Ar src_addr
+and
+.Ar dest_addr
+are interpreted as the outer source/destination for the encapsulating
+IPv4/IPv6 header.
+.It Cm deletetunnel
+Unconfigure the physical source and destination address for IP tunnel
+interfaces previously configured with
+.Cm tunnel .
+.El
+.Pp
+The following parameters are specific to
+.Xr vlan 4
+interfaces:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Cm vlan Ar vlan_tag
+Set the VLAN tag value to
+.Ar vlan_tag .
+This value is a 16-bit number which is used to create an 802.1Q
+VLAN header for packets sent from the
+.Xr vlan 4
+interface.
+Note that
+.Cm vlan
+and
+.Cm vlandev
+must both be set at the same time.
+.It Cm vlandev Ar iface
+Associate the physical interface
+.Ar iface
+with a
+.Xr vlan 4
+interface.
+Packets transmitted through the
+.Xr vlan 4
+interface will be
+diverted to the specified physical interface
+.Ar iface
+with 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation.
+Packets with 802.1Q encapsulation received
+by the parent interface with the correct VLAN tag will be diverted to
+the associated
+.Xr vlan 4
+pseudo-interface.
+The
+.Xr vlan 4
+interface is assigned a
+copy of the parent interface's flags and the parent's ethernet address.
+The
+.Cm vlandev
+and
+.Cm vlan
+must both be set at the same time.
+If the
+.Xr vlan 4
+interface already has
+a physical interface associated with it, this command will fail.
+To
+change the association to another physical interface, the existing
+association must be cleared first.
+.Pp
+Note: if the hardware tagging capability
+is set on the parent interface, the
+.Xr vlan 4
+pseudo
+interface's behavior changes:
+the
+.Xr vlan 4
+interface recognizes that the
+parent interface supports insertion and extraction of VLAN tags on its
+own (usually in firmware) and that it should pass packets to and from
+the parent unaltered.
+.It Fl vlandev Ar iface
+If the driver is a
+.Xr vlan 4
+pseudo device, disassociate the physical interface
+.Ar iface
+from it.
+This breaks the link between the
+.Xr vlan 4
+interface and its parent,
+clears its VLAN tag, flags and its link address and shuts the interface down.
+.El
+.Pp
The
.Nm
utility displays the current configuration for a network interface
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