Author: allanjude (doc committer) Date: Tue May 27 20:45:15 2014 New Revision: 266774 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/266774
Log: improve ifconfig(8) man page by describing special behaviour of -l ether PR: docs/187644 Submitted by: Andrew Merenbach (original patch) Approved by: bcr (mentor) Modified: head/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 Modified: head/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 ============================================================================== --- head/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 Tue May 27 20:22:36 2014 (r266773) +++ head/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 Tue May 27 20:45:15 2014 (r266774) @@ -169,6 +169,18 @@ and .Dq lladdr are synonyms for .Dq link . +When using the +.Fl l +flag, the +.Dq ether +address family has special meaning and is no longer synonymous with +.Dq link +or +.Dq lladdr . +Specifying +.Fl l Dq ether +will list only ethernet interfaces, excluding all other interface types, +including the loopback interface. .It Ar dest_address Specify the address of the correspondent on the other end of a point to point link. @@ -2554,6 +2566,11 @@ The .Fl l flag may be used to list all available interfaces on the system, with no other additional information. +If an +.Ar address_family +is specified, only interfaces of that type will be listed. +.Fl l Dq ether +will list only ethernet adapters, excluding the loopback interface. Use of this flag is mutually exclusive with all other flags and commands, except for .Fl d _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
