docs/92653: document carp in ifconfig.8 (patch provided)
>Number: 92653
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: document carp in ifconfig.8 (patch provided)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 01 01:00:13 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jeremy C. Reed
>Release:
>Organization:
Puget Sound Technology
>Environment:
>Description:
ifconfig(8) does not document carp(4) arguments.
The following patch will also help with PR docs/81776.
>How-To-Repeat:
man ifconfig
>Fix:
Please review and commit the following. This is very brief. More details
should be added to carp.4.
--- /archive/FreeBSD-current/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 2005-12-27 05:03:43.000000000 -0800
+++ ifconfig.8 2006-01-31 16:46:51.000000000 -0800
@@ -1289,6 +1289,30 @@
argument is useless and hence deprecated.
.El
.Pp
+The following parameters are specific to
+.Xr carp 4
+interfaces:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Cm advbase Ar seconds
+Specifies the base of the advertisement interval in seconds.
+The acceptable values are 1 to 255.
+The default value is 1.
+.\" The default value is CARP_DFLTINTV.
+.It Cm advskew Ar interval
+Specifies the skew to add to the base advertisement interval to
+make one host advertise slower than another host.
+It is specified in 1/256 of seconds.
+The acceptable values are 1 to 254.
+The default value is 0.
+.It Cm pass Ar phrase
+Set the authentication key to
+.Ar phrase .
+.It Cm vhid Ar n
+Set the virtual host ID.
+This is a required setting.
+Acceptable values are 1 to 255.
+.El
+.Pp
The
.Nm
utility displays the current configuration for a network interface
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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