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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-10 14:21:55 +0000
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.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN
.\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-.\"
+.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.\"
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm fwe
-.Nd Ethernet Emulation Driver for FireWire
+.Nd Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device fwe"
.Cd "device firewire"
@@ -38,25 +38,33 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-driver provides non-standard ethernet emulation over FireWire(IEEE1394).
+driver provides non-standard ethernet emulation over FireWire (IEEE 1394).
.Pp
-.Nm firewire
-and
-.Nm fwohci
+.Xr firewire 4
+and
+.Xr fwohci 4
must be configured in the kernel as well.
.Pp
-This driver exploits asynchronous stream over IEEE1394 to carry Ethernet
-frames. The stream channel can be specified by
-.Nm sysctl(8)
-(hw.firewire.fwe.stream_ch).
+This driver exploits asynchronous stream over IEEE 1394 to carry Ethernet
+frames.
+The stream channel can be specified by
+the
+.Va hw.firewire.fwe.stream_ch
+.Xr sysctl 8 .
.Pp
-This driver supports polling(4) as well if it's compiled with
-DEVICE_POLLING option.
+This driver supports
+.Xr polling 4
+as well if it is compiled with the
+.Dv DEVICE_POLLING
+option.
.Sh HISTORY
-The fwe device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.
+The fwe device driver first appeared in
+.Fx 5.0 .
.Sh BUGS
-This driver emulates ethernet very adhoc way and it doesn't reserve a stream channel using an isochronous manager.
-Note this driver uses very different protocol from RFC2734(IPv4 over IEEE 1394).
+This driver emulates ethernet very adhoc way and it does not reserve a
+stream channel using an isochronous manager.
+Note this driver uses very different protocol from RFC 2734
+(IPv4 over IEEE 1394).
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arp 4 ,
.Xr firewire 4 ,
@@ -67,11 +75,7 @@ Note this driver uses very different protocol from RFC2734(IPv4 over IEEE 1394).
.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
.Xr sysctl 8
.Sh AUTHORS
-.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
-driver was written by
-.An Hidetoshi Shimokawa .
-.Pp
-This manual page was written by
+driver and this manual page were written by
.An Hidetoshi Shimokawa .
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