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From: Michel Lavonds <fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [patch] sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 wordsmithing
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>Number:         66541
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 wordsmithing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bms
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 11 10:50:18 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:    Sat Apr 09 06:29:13 GMT 2005
>Last-Modified:  Sat Apr 09 06:29:13 GMT 2005
>Originator:     Michel Lavonds
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13
>Organization:
Ecdysiasts United For Overdressing
>Environment:
>Description:
Patch says it all, really.
>How-To-Repeat:
man 8 ifconfig
>Fix:
--- sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8.orig	Fri May  7 14:26:53 2004
+++ sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8	Fri May  7 14:33:35 2004
@@ -819,12 +819,10 @@
 requested address is unknown, or the user is not privileged and
 tried to alter an interface's configuration.
 .Sh BUGS
-IPv6 link-local addresses are required for several basic communication
-between IPv6 node.
-If they are deleted by
-.Nm
-manually, the kernel might show very strange behavior.
-So, such manual deletions are strongly discouraged.
+Basic IPv6 node operation requires a link-local address on each
+interface configured for IPv6.
+If you remove one by hand, the kernel may act very oddly.
+Use at your own risk.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr netstat 1 ,
 .Xr netintro 4 ,
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->patched 
State-Changed-By: bms 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 14 16:03:32 GMT 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed to HEAD with some additions/cleanup, thanks! 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->bms 
Responsible-Changed-By: bms 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jun 14 16:03:32 GMT 2004 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll take this. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=66541 

From: Matteo Riondato <rionda@gufi.org>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Cc: bms@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/66541 [patch] sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 wordsmithing
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:09:26 +0200

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 This has been merged to RELENG_5, but not to RELENG_4.
 Thanks
 Best Regards
 --=20
 Rionda aka Matteo Riondato
 Disinformato per default
 G.U.F.I. Staff Member (http://www.gufi.org)
 FreeSBIE Developer (http://www.freesbie.org)
 
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State-Changed-From-To: patched->closed 
State-Changed-By: bms 
State-Changed-When: Sat Apr 9 06:28:48 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
5.x is now RELEASE 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=66541 
>Unformatted:
