ifconfig.8: Polish

MFC after:	3 days
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35686
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Zhenlei Huang 2022-07-01 10:59:11 +02:00 committed by Mateusz Piotrowski
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@ -277,10 +277,10 @@ of the supported media for the specified interface.
.It Fl n
Disable automatic loading of network interface drivers.
.Pp
If the network interface driver is not present in the kernel then
By default if the network interface driver is not present in the kernel
then
.Nm
will attempt to load it.
This flag disables this behavior.
.It Fl u
Display only the interfaces that are up.
.It Fl v
@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ For the inet family,
the address is either a host name present in the host name data
base,
.Xr hosts 5 ,
or a IPv4 address expressed in the Internet standard
or an IPv4 address expressed in the Internet standard
.Dq dot notation .
.Pp
It is also possible to use the CIDR notation (also known as the
@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ If the Address Resolution Protocol is enabled,
the host will perform normally,
sending out requests and listening for replies.
.It Cm stickyarp
Enable so-called sticky ARP mode for the interface.
Enable the so-called sticky ARP mode for the interface.
If this option is enabled on the given interface, any resolved address is
marked as a static one and never expires. This may be used to increase
security of the network by preventing ARP spoofing or to reduce latency for
@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ option may impact techniques which rely on ARP expiration/overwriting feature
such as load-balancers or high-availabity solutions such as
.Xr carp 4 .
.It Fl stickyarp
Disable so-called sticky ARP mode for the interface (default).
Disable the so-called sticky ARP mode for the interface (default).
Resolved addresses will expire normally respecting the kernel ARP
configuration.
.It Cm broadcast