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| author | Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz> | 2013-11-23 13:26:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Ondrej Filip <feela@network.cz> | 2013-11-23 13:26:52 +0100 |
| commit | d940a2c4d4096f761a750e2df42ab55fd27a7e80 (patch) | |
| tree | 74b28e655c97297791b864289f932e61f0075971 /doc/bird.sgml | |
| parent | 2b3d52aa421ae1c31e30107beefd82fddbb42854 (diff) | |
Added a few sentences about symbol names.
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diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml index 46d2e026..e208f1e2 100644 --- a/doc/bird.sgml +++ b/doc/bird.sgml @@ -256,7 +256,10 @@ which allows you to talk with BIRD in an extensive way. <p>In the config, everything on a line after <cf/#/ or inside <cf>/* */</cf> is a comment, whitespace characters are treated as a single space. If there's a variable number of options, they are grouped using the <cf/{ }/ brackets. Each option is terminated by a <cf/;/. Configuration -is case sensitive. +is case sensitive. There are two ways how to name symbols (like protocol names, filter names, constats etc.). You can either use +a simple string starting with a letter followed by any combination of letters and numbers (e.g. "R123", "myfilter", "bgp5") or you +can enclose the name into apostrophes (<cf/'/) and than you can use any combination of numbers, letters. hyphens, dots and colons +(e.g. "'1:strange-name'", "'-NAME-'", "'cool::name'"). <p>Here is an example of a simple config file. It enables synchronization of routing tables with OS kernel, scans for |