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authorStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>2023-05-11 14:10:26 -0700
committerStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>2023-05-11 14:11:35 -0700
commit2905e783479d873c17ab4cb270161a139ccb7f1e (patch)
tree076fb3d12555f742013c48abdd05e8aa72794161
parentcfb60ba56bf35f28505e7ff67f1efd9bd3e1d5c6 (diff)
downloadiproute2-2905e783479d873c17ab4cb270161a139ccb7f1e.tar.gz
ip-rule: more manual page grammer fixes
Add missing articles and replace use of passive voice. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
-rw-r--r--man/man8/ip-rule.816
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/man8/ip-rule.8 b/man/man8/ip-rule.8
index c90d0e87c..d10b8b212 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-rule.8
+++ b/man/man8/ip-rule.8
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ based only on the destination address of packets (and in theory,
but not in practice, on the TOS field).
.P
-In some circumstances we want to route packets differently depending not only
-on destination addresses, but also on other packet fields: source address,
+In some circumstances, we want to route packets differently depending not only
+on destination addresses but also on other packet fields: source address,
IP protocol, transport protocol ports or even packet payload.
This task is called 'policy routing'.
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Each policy routing rule consists of a
.B selector
and an
.B action predicate.
-The RPDB is scanned in order of decreasing priority (note that lower number
+The RPDB is scanned in order of decreasing priority (note that a lower number
means higher priority, see the description of
.I PREFERENCE
below). The selector
@@ -179,21 +179,21 @@ The RPDB may contain rules of the following types:
.RS
.B unicast
-- the rule prescribes to return the route found
+- the rule returns the route found
in the routing table referenced by the rule.
.B blackhole
-- the rule prescribes to silently drop the packet.
+- the rule causes a silent drop the packet.
.B unreachable
-- the rule prescribes to generate a 'Network is unreachable' error.
+- the rule generates a 'Network is unreachable' error.
.B prohibit
-- the rule prescribes to generate 'Communication is administratively
+- the rule generates 'Communication is administratively
prohibited' error.
.B nat
-- the rule prescribes to translate the source address
+- the rule translates the source address
of the IP packet into some other value.
.RE