Attachment 21792 Details for Bug 38061 – file.diff

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>--- faith.4     Mon May 13 22:51:35 2002
>+++ faith.4.fixed       Mon May 13 22:57:20 2002
>@@ -46,20 +46,20 @@
> .Xr faithd 8 .
> .Pp
> Special action will be taken when IPv6 TCP traffic is seen on a router,
>-and routing table suggests to route it to
>+and the routing table suggests routing it to the
> .Nm
> interface.
> In this case, the packet will be accepted by the router,
>-regardless of list of IPv6 interface addresses assigned to the router.
>-The packet will be captured by an IPv6 TCP socket, if it has
>+regardless of the list of IPv6 interface addresses assigned to the router.
>+The packet will be captured by an IPv6 TCP socket, if it has the
> .Dv IN6P_FAITH
>-flag turned on and it has matching address/port pairs.
>-In result,
>+flag turned on and matching address/port pairs.
>+As a result,
> .Nm
> will let you capture IPv6 TCP traffic to some specific destination addresses.
> Userland programs, such as
> .Xr faithd 8
>-can use this behavior to relay IPv6 TCP traffic to IPv4 TCP traffic.
>+can use this behavior to relay IPv6 TCP traffic to IPv4 TCP programs.
> The program can accept some specific IPv6 TCP traffic, perform
> .Xr getsockname 2
> to get the IPv6 destination address specified by the client,
>@@ -69,26 +69,24 @@
> .Dv IN6P_FAITH
> flag on IPv6 TCP socket can be set by using
> .Xr setsockopt 2 ,
>-with level equals to
>+with level
> .Dv IPPROTO_IPV6
>-and optname equals to
>+and optname
> .Dv IPv6_FAITH .
> .Pp
>-To handle error reports by ICMPv6, some of ICMPv6 packets routed to
>+To handle error reports by ICMPv6, some ICMPv6 packets routed to
> .Nm
>-interface will be delivered to IPv6 TCP, as well.
>+interface may be delivered to IPv6 TCP, as well.
> .Pp
> To understand how
> .Nm
>-can be used, take a look at source code of
>+can be used, take a look at the source code of
> .Xr faithd 8 .
> .Pp
>-As
>+As the
> .Nm
>-interface implements potentially dangerous operation,
>-great care must be taken when configuring
>-.Nm
>-interface.
>+interface implements potentially dangerous operations,
>+great care must be taken when configuring it.
> To avoid possible misuse,
> .Xr sysctl 8
> variable
>@@ -100,10 +98,11 @@
> .Li net.inet6.ip6.keepfaith
> is
> .Li 0 ,
>-no packet will be captured by
>+no packets will be captured by the
> .Nm
> interface.
> .Pp
>+The
> .Nm
> interface is intended to be used on routers, not on hosts.
> .\"
>@@ -120,5 +119,5 @@
> .%O work in progress material
> .Re
> .Sh HISTORY
>-The FAITH IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay translator was first appeared in
>+The FAITH IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay translator first appeared in the
> WIDE hydrangea IPv6 stack.

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