openbsd-ports/net/tcpstat/patches/patch-doc_tcpstat_1
avsm f58b1a4d61 Initial import of tcpstat-1.4
--
tcpstat reports certain network interface statistics much like
vmstat does for system statistics. tcpstat gets its information by
either monitoring a specific interface, or by reading previously
saved tcpdump data from a file.
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$OpenBSD: patch-doc_tcpstat_1,v 1.1.1.1 2001/01/30 15:22:54 avsm Exp $
--- doc/tcpstat.1.orig Tue Jan 30 01:26:46 2001
+++ doc/tcpstat.1 Tue Jan 30 01:30:17 2001
@@ -73,11 +73,11 @@ Default is 5 seconds.
When reading data from
.Ar filename ,
.Nm
-will exit immediately after the entire file has been procesed. When
+will exit immediately after the entire file has been processed. When
collecting data from
.Ar interface ,
.Nm
-will exit upon recieving a SIGINT, or (if the
+will exit upon receiving a SIGINT, or (if the
.Fl s
option is specified) after
.Ar seconds
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ minute, hour, day, and month.
.It Fl b Ar bps
Bandwidth mode.
Displays the total number of seconds the
-data-throughput exceded
+data-throughput exceeded
.Ar bps ,
and the percentage of total time this was,
as if the interface were limited to
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ and the percentage of total time this wa
section below to see difference between "dumb" and normal
bandwidth modes.
.It Fl e
-Supresses the display of empty intervals.
+Suppresses the display of empty intervals.
.It Fl F
Flush the output streams after printing each interval. Sometimes useful
when redirecting output into a file, or piping tcpstat into another
@@ -216,10 +216,10 @@ the number of UDP packets
.It % Ns V
the number of IPv6 packets
.It % Ns Ar number
-switch the output to the file desciptor
+switch the output to the file descriptor
.Ar number
at this point in the string. All output for each interval before this
-parameter is by default the standard output (file descriptor 1). Usefull
+parameter is by default the standard output (file descriptor 1). Useful
when redirecting the output into more than one file (or fifo) for separate
statisics. Be sure you know where they are going. Writing to "dangling"
file descriptors (without directing them to a specific destination) may
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ samples of data), the bandwidth numbers
variable. Generally speaking, if you often have rapid bursts of packet data,
the bandwidth reported will not reflect this when
.Ar interval
-is sufficently large. This results in an "averaging" effect, which may or
+is sufficiently large. This results in an "averaging" effect, which may or
may not be desired. On the other hand, if
.Ar interval
is too small (say < 0.01), this results in unrealisticaly large