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diff --git a/man7/arp.7 b/man7/arp.7 index 8bdad2e7ae..15dece4751 100644 --- a/man7/arp.7 +++ b/man7/arp.7 @@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ frequently used entries are garbage-collected. Entries which are marked as permanent are never deleted by the garbage-collector. The cache can -be directly manipulated by the use of ioctls and its behaviour can be +be directly manipulated by the use of ioctls and its behavior can be tuned by the sysctls defined below. When there is no positive feedback for an existing mapping after some -time (see the sysctls below) a neighbour cache entry is considered stale. +time (see the sysctls below) a neighbor cache entry is considered stale. Positive feedback can be gotten from a higher layer; for example from a successful TCP ACK. Other protocols can signal forward progress @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ in seconds. .TP .B anycast_delay The maximum number of jiffies to delay before replying to a -IPv6 neighbour solicitation message. +IPv6 neighbor solicitation message. Anycast support is not yet implemented. Defaults to 1 second. .TP @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see Defaults to 0. .TP .B base_reachable_time -Once a neighbour has been found, the entry is considered to be valid +Once a neighbor has been found, the entry is considered to be valid for at least a random value between .IR base_reachable_time "/2 and 3*" base_reachable_time /2. An entry's validity will be extended if it receives positive feedback @@ -162,18 +162,18 @@ from higher level protocols. Defaults to 30 seconds. .TP .B delay_first_probe_time -Delay before first probe after it has been decided that a neighbour +Delay before first probe after it has been decided that a neighbor is stale. Defaults to 5 seconds. .TP .B gc_interval -How frequently the garbage collector for neighbour entries +How frequently the garbage collector for neighbor entries should attempt to run. Defaults to 30 seconds. .TP .B gc_stale_time -Determines how often to check for stale neighbour entries. -When a neighbour entry is considered stale it is resolved again before +Determines how often to check for stale neighbor entries. +When a neighbor entry is considered stale it is resolved again before sending data to it. Defaults to 60 seconds. .TP @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ functionality together. .PP RFC\ 826 for a description of ARP. .br -RFC\ 2461 for a description of IPv6 neighbour discovery and the base +RFC\ 2461 for a description of IPv6 neighbor discovery and the base algorithms used. .LP Linux 2.2+ IPv4 ARP uses the IPv6 algorithms when applicable. |