Module Name: src
Committed By: wiz
Date: Sat Sep 24 18:47:59 UTC 2011
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man7: rfc6056.7
Log Message:
New sentence, new line. Do not Xr yourself. Add serial commas.
Remove superfluous Pp.
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Index: src/share/man/man7/rfc6056.7
diff -u src/share/man/man7/rfc6056.7:1.1 src/share/man/man7/rfc6056.7:1.2
--- src/share/man/man7/rfc6056.7:1.1 Sat Sep 24 17:04:38 2011
+++ src/share/man/man7/rfc6056.7 Sat Sep 24 18:47:59 2011
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: rfc6056.7,v 1.1 2011/09/24 17:04:38 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: rfc6056.7,v 1.2 2011/09/24 18:47:59 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011
.\" The NetBSD Foundation. All rights reserved.
@@ -36,16 +36,16 @@
.Nd port randomization algorithms
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Xr rfc6056 7
+.Nm
algorithms are used in order to randomize the port allocation of outgoing UDP
packets, in order to provide protection from a series of
.Dq blind
attacks based on the
attacker's ability to guess the sequence of ephemeral ports associated
-with outgoing packets. For more information consult RFC 6056.
+with outgoing packets.
+For more information consult RFC 6056.
.Pp
The individual algorithms are described below:
-.Pp
.Ss The RFC 6056 algorithms
.Li The following algorithms are available:
.Bl -tag -width "random_start"
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ port selection algorithm, which starts f
and proceeds decreasingly through the available ephemeral ports.
.It Sy random_start
Select ports randomly from the available ephemeral ports.
-In case a collision with a local port is detected the
-algorithm proceeds decreasingly through the sequence of ephemeral
+In case a collision with a local port is detected, the
+algorithm proceeds decreasingly through the sequence of ephemeral
ports until a free port is found.
Note that the random port selection algorithms are not guaranteed to find
a free port.
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ call, performed either explicitly or up
.It Sy doublehash
Select ports using a
.Xr md5 3
-hash of the local address, foreign address and foreign port coupled with a
+hash of the local address, foreign address, and foreign port coupled with a
.Xr md5 3
hash of the same components obtained using a separate table that is
associated with a subset of all outgoing connections.
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ port randomization algorithm:
.It net.inet6.udp6.rfc6056.available Ta string Ta no
.It net.inet6.udp6.rfc6056.selected Ta string Ta yes
.El
-.Pp
.Sh SOCKET OPTIONS
The socket option
.Dv UDP_RFC6056ALGO
