man: iptables.8: Trivial spelling fixes

- Missing "and" as well as full stop
- Missing comma in enumeration
- Duplicate "previous"
- Confusions are avoided rather than simplified
- Missing space after comma

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>

diff --git a/iptables/iptables.8.in b/iptables/iptables.8.in
index 2dd1406615106ab6530e6fba857cf05386688496..6486588e347441473538f2c56cd7903aec3d339d 100644 (file)
--- a/iptables/iptables.8.in
+++ b/iptables/iptables.8.in
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ This table is used mainly for configuring exemptions from connection
 tracking in combination with the NOTRACK target.  It registers at the netfilter
 hooks with higher priority and is thus called before ip_conntrack, or any other
 IP tables.  It provides the following built-in chains: \fBPREROUTING\fP
-(for packets arriving via any network interface) \fBOUTPUT\fP
-(for packets generated by local processes)
+(for packets arriving via any network interface) and \fBOUTPUT\fP
+(for packets generated by local processes).
 .TP
 \fBsecurity\fP:
 This table is used for Mandatory Access Control (MAC) networking rules, such
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ This option has no effect in ip6tables and ip6tables-restore.
 [\fB!\fP] \fB\-p\fP, \fB\-\-protocol\fP \fIprotocol\fP
 The protocol of the rule or of the packet to check.
 The specified protocol can be one of \fBtcp\fP, \fBudp\fP, \fBudplite\fP,
-\fBicmp\fP, \fBicmpv6\fP,\fBesp\fP, \fBah\fP, \fBsctp\fP, \fBmh\fP or the special keyword "\fBall\fP",
+\fBicmp\fP, \fBicmpv6\fP, \fBesp\fP, \fBah\fP, \fBsctp\fP, \fBmh\fP or the special keyword "\fBall\fP",
 or it can be a numeric value, representing one of these protocols or a
 different one.  A protocol name from /etc/protocols is also allowed.
 A "!" argument before the protocol inverts the
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ network names, or services (whenever applicable).
 \fB\-x\fP, \fB\-\-exact\fP
 Expand numbers.
 Display the exact value of the packet and byte counters,
-instead of only the rounded number in K's (multiples of 1000)
+instead of only the rounded number in K's (multiples of 1000),
 M's (multiples of 1000K) or G's (multiples of 1000M).  This option is
 only relevant for the \fB\-L\fP command.
 .TP
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ entering the \fBFORWARD\fP chain.
 .PP
 The various forms of NAT have been separated out; \fBiptables\fP
 is a pure packet filter when using the default `filter' table, with
-optional extension modules.  This should simplify much of the previous
+optional extension modules.  This should avoid much of the
 confusion over the combination of IP masquerading and packet filtering
 seen previously.  So the following options are handled differently:
 .nf