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author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> | 2012-08-13 08:02:42 -0700 |
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committer | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> | 2012-08-13 08:02:42 -0700 |
commit | 4ad479e4dde956925be6ed687c5ab058a69150ce (patch) | |
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Fix typo's on man page
One missing space reported by A. Costa and always captialize
Linux.
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diff --git a/doc/brctl.8 b/doc/brctl.8 index 771f323..a708bc1 100644 --- a/doc/brctl.8 +++ b/doc/brctl.8 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ brctl \- ethernet bridge administration .SH DESCRIPTION .B brctl is used to set up, maintain, and inspect the ethernet bridge -configuration in the linux kernel. +configuration in the Linux kernel. An ethernet bridge is a device commonly used to connect different networks of ethernets together, so that these ethernets will appear as @@ -106,15 +106,15 @@ Multiple ethernet bridges can work together to create even larger networks of ethernets using the IEEE 802.1d spanning tree protocol. This protocol is used for finding the shortest path between two ethernets, and for eliminating loops from the topology. As this -protocol is a standard, linux bridges will interwork properly with -other third party bridge products. Bridges communicate with eachother +protocol is a standard, Linux bridges will interwork properly with +other third party bridge products. Bridges communicate with each other by sending and receiving BPDUs (Bridge Protocol Data Units). These BPDUs can be recognised by an ethernet destination address of 01:80:c2:00:00:00. The spanning tree protocol can also be turned off (for those situations where it just doesn't make sense, for example when this -linux box is the only bridge on the LAN, or when you know that there +Linux box is the only bridge on the LAN, or when you know that there are no loops in the topology.) .IR brctl(8) |