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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2014-04-22 20:56:56 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2014-04-23 20:40:00 +0200
commit896333c57e56c55b22eb3dd9abf9f8f06101239e (patch)
tree248303577333e4e4759fccc0876c5351d46c162e /man7/packet.7
parent8c26e99bce411d4a4937e8c6ae0a487247099d15 (diff)
downloadman-pages-896333c57e56c55b22eb3dd9abf9f8f06101239e.tar.gz
packet.7: Minor fixes to Carsten Andrich's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/packet.7')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/packet.7 b/man7/packet.7
index 50858149b9..2b1a79aed9 100644
--- a/man7/packet.7
+++ b/man7/packet.7
@@ -323,10 +323,11 @@ When a malformed packet is encountered on a transmit ring, the default is to
set its status to
.BR TP_STATUS_WRONG_FORMAT
and abort the transmission immediately (it and following packets are left
-lingering on the ring). However if
+lingering on the ring).
+However, if
.BR PACKET_LOSS
is set, malformed packets will be skipped, their status reset to
-.BR TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE
+.BR TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE ,
and the transmission process continued.
.TP
.BR PACKET_RESERVE " (with " PACKET_RX_RING )