From 327af2cb23cb42fd8abd8799ad99cf91c5d00ff1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ngie Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:10:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] route(8): clarify -prefixlen description Try to reword -prefixlen section to more clearly and accurately describe how the -prefixlen modifier works. While here, fix a word that igor considered a typo: aggregatable addresses is a valid technical term per RFC-2374, however, it was superseded by the term "aggregator" in RFC-3587. MFC after: 1 week Reviewed by: 0mp, crees Approved by: emaste (mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10087 --- sbin/route/route.8 | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/sbin/route/route.8 b/sbin/route/route.8 index 3fd959754acb..6f34795ce883 100644 --- a/sbin/route/route.8 +++ b/sbin/route/route.8 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)route.8 8.3 (Berkeley) 3/19/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd February 16, 2018 +.Dd January 9, 2019 .Dt ROUTE 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -303,14 +303,14 @@ is available instead of the qualifier because non-continuous masks are not allowed in IPv6. For example, .Fl prefixlen Li 32 -specifies network mask of +specifies that a network mask of .Li ffff:ffff:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 -to be used. -The default value of prefixlen is 64 to get along with -the aggregatable address. -But 0 is assumed if +will be used. +The default prefixlen is 64. +However, it is assumed to be 0 if .Cm default -is specified. +is specified for +.Ar destination . Note that the qualifier works only for .Dv AF_INET6 address family.