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diff --git a/man7/ipv6.7 b/man7/ipv6.7 index d9241cc93..43cd91c44 100644 --- a/man7/ipv6.7 +++ b/man7/ipv6.7 @@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ This man page contains a description of the IPv6 basic API as implemented by the Linux kernel and glibc 2.1. The interface is based on the BSD sockets interface; see -.BR socket (7). +.MR socket 7 . .P The IPv6 API aims to be mostly compatible with the IPv4 API (see -.BR ip (7)). +.MR ip 7 ). Only differences are described in this man page. .P To bind an @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ is always set to is the protocol port (see .I sin_port in -.BR ip (7)); +.MR ip 7 ); .I sin6_flowinfo is the IPv6 flow identifier; .I sin6_addr @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ It is new in Linux 2.4. Linux supports it only for link-local addresses, in that case .I sin6_scope_id contains the interface index (see -.BR netdevice (7)) +.MR netdevice 7 ) .P IPv6 supports several address types: unicast to address a single host, multicast to address a group of hosts, @@ -185,9 +185,9 @@ for IPv4-mapped-on-IPv6. The port space of IPv6 is shared with IPv4. .SS Socket options IPv6 supports some protocol-specific socket options that can be set with -.BR setsockopt (2) +.MR setsockopt 2 and read with -.BR getsockopt (2). +.MR getsockopt 2 . The socket option level for IPv6 is .BR IPPROTO_IPV6 . A boolean integer flag is zero when it is false, otherwise true. @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ Control path-MTU discovery on the socket. See .B IP_MTU_DISCOVER in -.BR ip (7) +.MR ip 7 for details. .TP .B IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ and .B SOCK_RAW socket. The argument is a pointer to an interface index (see -.BR netdevice (7)) +.MR netdevice 7 ) in an integer. .TP .B IPV6_MULTICAST_LOOP @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ delivers an integer containing the hop count of the packet. The control messages have the same type as the socket option. All these header options can also be set for outgoing packets by putting the appropriate control message into the control buffer of -.BR sendmsg (2). +.MR sendmsg 2 . Allowed only for .B SOCK_DGRAM or @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ Control receiving of asynchronous error options. See .B IP_RECVERR in -.BR ip (7) +.MR ip 7 for details. Argument is a pointer to boolean. .TP @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ The default value for that file is 0 (false). .TP .B ENODEV The user tried to -.BR bind (2) +.MR bind 2 to a link-local IPv6 address, but the .I sin6_scope_id in the supplied @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ and other socket options are nonportable variants of .BR IPPROTO_* . See also -.BR ip (7). +.MR ip 7 . .SH BUGS The IPv6 extended API as in RFC\ 2292 is currently only partly implemented; @@ -408,8 +408,8 @@ Flow label management is not complete and not documented here. .P This man page is not complete. .SH SEE ALSO -.BR cmsg (3), -.BR ip (7) +.MR cmsg 3 , +.MR ip 7 .P RFC\ 2553: IPv6 BASIC API; Linux tries to be compliant to this. |