From 75317ab8e522b5dceb87b204e09d8ad919ac8558 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Mares Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:51:26 +0000 Subject: Spelling fixes. --- doc/bird.sgml | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/bird.sgml') diff --git a/doc/bird.sgml b/doc/bird.sgml index eb09b02c..0de69712 100644 --- a/doc/bird.sgml +++ b/doc/bird.sgml @@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ the topology of the network which allows them to find optimal (in terms of some forwarding of packets (which will be called routes in the rest of this document) and to adapt to the changing conditions such as outages of network links, building of new connections and so on. Most of these routers are costly dedicated devices running obscure firmware which is hard to configure and -not open to any changes. (But these costly dedicated beasts are a -requirement for routing of many fast interfaces - PCclass machine can not keep up with more than 4 -100Mbps interfaces) Fortunately, most operating systems of the UNIX family allow an ordinary +not open to any changes (but these costly dedicated beasts are needed +for routing on many fast interfaces -- a PC class machine can not keep up with more than 4 +100Mbps cards). Fortunately, most operating systems of the UNIX family allow an ordinary computer to act as a router and forward packets belonging to the other hosts, but only according to a statically configured table. @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ known routes. Each route consists of: network this route is for preference of this route (taken from preference of - protocol and possibly alterred by filters) + protocol and possibly altered by filters) ip address of router who told us about this route ip address of router we should use for packets routing using this route @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ protocols. Installing BIRD -

On recent UNIX (with GNU-compatible tools - BIRD relies on GCC extensions) +

On recent UNIX (with GNU-compatible tools -- BIRD relies on GCC extensions) system, installing BIRD should be as easy as: @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ system, installing BIRD should be as easy as:

You can use ./configure --help to get list of configure options. Most important (and not easily guessed) option is -You can pass several command-line options to bird: @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ protocol rip { "*" { mode broadcast; }; will start given protocol on all interfaces, with mode broadcast; option. If first character of mask is @@ -296,9 +296,9 @@ protocols, telling BIRD to show various information, telling it to show routing table filtered by any filter, or telling bird to reconfigure. Press Filters @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ rip) and all routers know that network is unreachable. Rip tries to minimize sit counting to infinity is necessary, because it is slow. Due to infinity being 16, you can not use rip on networks where maximal distance is bigger than 15 hosts. You can read more about rip at . Both IPv4 -and IPv6 versions of rip are supported by BIRD, historical Ripv1 is +and IPv6 versions of rip are supported by BIRD, historical RIPv1 is currently not fully supported.

Rip is very simple protocol, and it is not too good. Slow @@ -1115,14 +1115,14 @@ protocol static {

BIRD is relatively young system, and probably contains some bugs. You can report bugs at , but before you do, -please make sure you have read available documenation, make sure are running latest version (available at ), and that bug was not already reported by someone else (mailing list archives are at ). (Of course, patch which fixes the bug along with bug report is always welcome). If you want to join the development, join developer's mailing list by sending . You can also get current sources from anoncvs at . You can find this documentation online -at , main homepage of bird is . When +at , main home page of bird is . When trying to understand, what is going on, Internet standards are relevant reading; you can get them from . @@ -1131,12 +1131,12 @@ relevant reading; you can get them from . -- cgit v1.2.3