Package: iptables
Version: 1.3.6.0debian1-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/ip6tables.8.gz', see attached '.diff'.

Also fixed a few grammar typos not listed in the subject line.


Hope this helps...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages iptables depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                 1.32-3       SELinux shared libraries

iptables recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- ip6tables.8 2006-11-22 23:25:50.000000000 -0500
+++ /tmp/ip6tables.8    2007-02-08 02:09:00.000000000 -0500
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 
 .SH TARGETS
 A firewall rule specifies criteria for a packet, and a target.  If the
-packet does not match, the next rule in the chain is the examined; if
+packet does not match, the next rule in the chain is then examined; if
 it does match, then the next rule is specified by the value of the
 target, which can be the name of a user-defined chain or one of the
 special values 
@@ -147,10 +147,10 @@
 .B ip6tables
 can be divided into several different groups.
 .SS COMMANDS
-These options specify the specific action to perform.  Only one of them
-can be specified on the command line unless otherwise specified
-below.  For all the long versions of the command and option names, you
-need to use only enough letters to ensure that
+These options specify the action to perform.  Only one of them
+can be specified on the command line unless otherwise stated
+below.  For long versions of the command and option names, you
+need only use enough letters to ensure that
 .B ip6tables
 can differentiate it from all other options.
 .TP
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
 .TP
 .BR "\-L, \-\-list " "[\fIchain\fP]"
 List all rules in the selected chain.  If no chain is selected, all
-chains are listed.  As every other iptables command, it applies to the
+chains are listed.  Like every other iptables command, it applies to the
 specified table (filter is the default), so mangle rules get listed by
 .nf
  ip6tables \-t mangle \-n \-L
@@ -427,9 +427,9 @@
 .BR "\-\-espspi " "[!] \fIspi\fP[:\fIspi\fP]"
 .SS eui64
 This module matches the EUI-64 part of a stateless autoconfigured IPv6 address.
-It compares the EUI-64 derived from the source MAC address in Ehternet frame
-with the lower 64 bits of the IPv6 source address. But "Universal/Local"
-bit is not compared. This module doesn't match other link layer frame, and
+It compares the EUI-64 derived from the source MAC address of the Ethernet 
frame
+with the lower 64 bits of the IPv6 source address. But the "Universal/Local"
+bit is not compared. This module doesn't match other link layer frames, and
 is only valid in the
 .BR PREROUTING ,
 .BR INPUT
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@
 Matches if there are more fragments.
 .TP
 .BR "[\-\-fraglast]"
-Matches if this is the last fragement.
+Matches if this is the last fragment.
 .SS hbh
 This module matches the parameters in Hop-by-Hop Options header
 .TP
@@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@
 .PP
 Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote the REJECT target.
 .PP
-Harald Welte wrote the ULOG and NFQUEUE target, the new libiptc, aswell as TTL 
match+target and libipulog.
+Harald Welte wrote the ULOG and NFQUEUE target, the new libiptc, as well as 
TTL match+target and libipulog.
 .PP
 The Netfilter Core Team is: Marc Boucher, Martin Josefsson, Jozsef Kadlecsik,
 James Morris, Harald Welte and Rusty Russell.

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