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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/netintro.4 | 30 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/netintro.4 b/share/man/man4/netintro.4 index 32bc7b5..854af85 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/netintro.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/netintro.4 @@ -138,11 +138,11 @@ page alluded to above. .Ed .Pp The field -.Ar sa_len +.Va sa_len contains the total length of the of the structure, which may exceed 16 bytes. The following address values for -.Ar sa_family +.Va sa_family are known to the system (and additional formats are defined for possible future implementation): .Bd -literal @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ is made on a socket (typically of type in the desired domain. Most of the requests supported in earlier releases take an -.Ar ifreq +.Vt ifreq structure as its parameter. This structure has the form .Bd -literal struct ifreq { @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ Set broadcast address for protocol family and interface. requests to obtain addresses and requests both to set and retrieve other data are still fully supported and use the -.Ar ifreq +.Vt ifreq structure: .Bl -tag -width SIOCGIFBRDADDR .It Dv SIOCGIFADDR @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Attempt to create the specified interface. If the interface name is given without a unit number the system will attempt to create a new interface with an arbitrary unit number. On sucessful return the -.Ar ifr_name +.Va ifr_name field will contain the new interface name. .It Dv SIOCIFDESTROY Attempt to destroy the specified interface. @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ identifier itself to include the total size, as described in .It Dv SIOCDIFADDR This requests deletes the specified address from the list associated with an interface. It also uses the -.Ar if_aliasreq +.Vt ifaliasreq structure to allow for the possibility of protocols allowing multiple masks or destination addresses, and also adopts the convention that specification of the default address means @@ -294,30 +294,30 @@ to delete the first address for the interface belonging to the address family in which the original socket was opened. .It Dv SIOCGIFCONF Get interface configuration list. This request takes an -.Ar ifconf +.Vt ifconf structure (see below) as a value-result parameter. The -.Ar ifc_len +.Va ifc_len field should be initially set to the size of the buffer pointed to by -.Ar ifc_buf . +.Va ifc_buf . On return it will contain the length, in bytes, of the configuration list. .It Dv SIOCIFGCLONERS Get list of clonable interfaces. This request takes an -.Ar if_clonereq +.Vt if_clonereq structure (see below) as a value-result parameter. The -.Ar ifcr_count +.Va ifcr_count field should be set to the number of .Dv IFNAMSIZ sized strings that can be fit in the buffer pointed to by -.Ar ifcr_buffer . -On return -.Ar ifcr_total +.Va ifcr_buffer . +On return, +.Va ifcr_total will be set the the number of clonable interfaces and the buffer pointed to by -.Ar ifcr_buffer +.Va ifcr_buffer will be filled with the names of clonable interfaces aligned on .Dv IFNAMSIZ boundaries. |
