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ip.7: Add "Special and reserved addresses" section
authorSeth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:45:58 +0000 (11:45 -0700)
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:08:45 +0000 (21:08 +0200)
commit8cf319f3db889f80b0309ac32ef61be0b7d8cb94
tree1d4943714814e7228a5b78dbb9a8e0aae80d0d22
parentf91a9c9ec95e5de367b210b76bb8d112e29c826c
ip.7: Add "Special and reserved addresses" section

Break out the discussion of special and reserved IPv4 addresses into
a subsection, formatted as a pair of definition lists, and briefly
describing three cases in which Linux no longer treats addresses
specially, where other systems do or did.

Also add a specific example to the NOTES paragraph that discourages
the use of IP broadcasting, so people can more easily understand
what they are supposed to do instead.

Suggested-by: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Signed-off-by: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
man7/ip.7