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Andreas Henriksson 9fc56974ac iproute2: trivial fix of ip link syntax in manpage
Reported by Ivan Vilata i Balaguer <ivan@selidor.net>
found that the description of the `ip link add` command in the manpage
is outdated regarding the compulsory `link DEVICE` option.
For instance, `ip  link help` says:
    Usage: ip link add [link DEV] [ name ] NAME
     ...
But the manpage still says:
     ip link add link DEVICE [ name ] NAME

(Trying to provide a `link` option e.g. under an LXC container can frustrate
 the creation of dummy devices which don't need an actual device.)

The syntax of the "ip link help" output was fixed in commit
"iproute2: Fix usage and man page for 'ip link'" (a22e92951d).
This updates the manpage to mark "link DEVICE" as an optional
argument there as well.

  http://bugs.debian.org/673171

Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
2012-05-21 14:11:58 -07:00
doc doc: add pdf targets 2011-04-12 14:28:04 -07:00
etc/iproute2 iproute2: support listing devices by group 2011-02-25 12:38:50 -08:00
examples dhcp-client-script: don't use /tmp 2012-02-15 10:05:45 -08:00
genl Convert to use rta_getattr_ functions 2012-04-10 08:47:55 -07:00
include Merge in 3.3-rc2 kernel headers 2012-04-10 09:11:21 -07:00
ip Revert "iproute2: allow IPv6 addresses for l2tp local and remote parameters" 2012-04-26 08:06:38 -07:00
lib iproute2 - Don't hardcode the path to config files 2012-04-12 09:37:18 -07:00
man iproute2: trivial fix of ip link syntax in manpage 2012-05-21 14:11:58 -07:00
misc ss: use new INET_DIAG_SKMEMINFO option to get more memory information for tcp socket 2012-05-03 08:27:28 -07:00
netem netem: fix installs of dist files 2010-07-31 19:31:04 -07:00
tc iproute2 - Fix up and simplify variables pointing to install directories 2012-04-12 09:49:10 -07:00
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README.devel iproute2: fix minor typo in comments 2011-07-11 10:11:09 -07:00
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README

This is a set of utilities for Linux networking.

Information:
    http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2

Download:
    http://devresources.linuxfoundation.org/dev/iproute2/download

Repository:
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git

How to compile this.
--------------------
1. libdbm

arpd needs to have the db4 development libraries. For Debian
users this is the package with a name like libdb4.x-dev.
DBM_INCLUDE points to the directory with db_185.h which
is the include file used by arpd to get to the old format Berkeley
database routines.  Often this is in the db-devel package.

2. make

The makefile will automatically build a Config file which
contains whether or not ATM is available, etc.

3. To make documentation, cd to doc/ directory , then
   look at start of Makefile and set correct values for
   PAGESIZE=a4		, ie: a4 , letter ...	(string)
   PAGESPERPAGE=2	, ie: 1 , 2 ...		(numeric)
   and make there. It assumes, that latex, dvips and psnup
   are in your path.

4. This package includes matching sanitized kernel headers because
   the build environment may not have up to date versions. See Makefile
   if you have special requirements and need to point at different
   kernel include files.

Stephen Hemminger
shemminger@linux-foundation.org

Alexey Kuznetsov
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru