From: Vijay Subramanian Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:08:51 +0000 (-0800) Subject: netem: Fix up grammatical errors in man page X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0~29 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0bdb83cd703fd96ba765122b1fd205318db606bc;p=thirdparty%2Fiproute2.git netem: Fix up grammatical errors in man page Signed-off-by: Vijay Subramanian --- diff --git a/man/man8/tc-netem.8 b/man/man8/tc-netem.8 index ff576249e..b36d0ec8e 100644 --- a/man/man8/tc-netem.8 +++ b/man/man8/tc-netem.8 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ NetEm \- Network Emulator NetEm is an enhancement of the Linux traffic control facilities that allow to add delay, packet loss, duplication and more other characteristics to packets outgoing from a selected network -interface. NetEm is build using the existing Quality Of Service (QOS) +interface. NetEm is built using the existing Quality Of Service (QOS) and Differentiated Services (diffserv) facilities in the Linux kernel. @@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ optional parameters allows to introduce a delay variation and a correlation. Delay and jitter values are expressed in ms while correlation is percentage. .SS distribution -allow the choose the delay distribution. If not specified, the default -distribution is normal. Additional parameters allow to consider situations in +allow the user to choose the delay distribution. If not specified, the default +distribution is Normal. Additional parameters allow to consider situations in which network has variable delays depending on traffic flows concurring on the same path, that causes several delay peaks and a tail. @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ is now deprecated due to the noticed bad behavior. .SS loss state adds packet losses according to the 4-state Markov using the transition -probabilities as input parameters. The parameters p13 is mandatory and if used +probabilities as input parameters. The parameter p13 is mandatory and if used alone corresponds to the Bernoulli model. The optional parameters allows to extend the model to 2-state (p31), 3-state (p23 and p32) and 4-state (p14). State 1 corresponds to good reception, State 4 to independent losses, State 3 @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ to burst losses and State 2 to good reception within a burst. .SS loss gemodel adds packet losses according to the Gilbert-Elliot loss model or its special cases (Gilbert, Simple Gilbert and Bernoulli). To use the Bernoulli model, the -only needed parameter is p while the the others will be set to the default +only needed parameter is p while the others will be set to the default values r=1-p, 1-h=1 and 1-k=0. The parameters needed for the Simple Gilbert model are two (p and r), while three parameters (p, r, 1-h) are needed for the Gilbert model and four (p, r, 1-h and 1-k) are needed for the Gilbert-Elliot @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ the good states, 1-h is the loss probability in the bad state and 1-k is the loss probability in the good state. .SS corrupt -allows the emulate the random noise introducing an error in a random position +allows the emulation of random noise introducing an error in a random position for a chosen percent of packets. It is also possible to add a correlation through the proper parameter.