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authorStephen Wadeley <swadeley@redhat.com>2013-06-12 22:43:23 +0200
committerDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2013-06-12 23:16:56 +0200
commitc29a9dbcce671fe32119ba6a45ed5a531c50cce6 (patch)
treefd274ba4392aad7b47351606fbad5d65efb57878 /flowtop.8
parent84f35b6354d1c9d3776a7f709192186196081024 (diff)
man: improvements to language for flowtop.8
Signed-off-by: Stephen Wadeley <swadeley@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'flowtop.8')
-rw-r--r--flowtop.810
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/flowtop.8 b/flowtop.8
index d11cf25..eda45e7 100644
--- a/flowtop.8
+++ b/flowtop.8
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ The following information will be presented in flowtop's output:
* Flow port's service name heuristic
* Transport protocol state machine information
.PP
-In order for flowtop to work, netfilter/iptables must be active resp. running
+In order for flowtop to work, netfilter must be active and running
on your machine, thus kernel-side connection tracking is active.
.PP
flowtop's intention is just to get a quick look over your active connections.
@@ -47,15 +47,15 @@ instead.
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
.SS -4, --ipv4
-Display IPv4 flows. That's default when flowtop is started without
+Display IPv4 flows. That is the default when flowtop is started without
any arguments.
.PP
.SS -6, --ipv6
-Display IPv6 flows. That's default when flowtop is started without
+Display IPv6 flows. That is the default when flowtop is started without
any arguments.
.PP
.SS -T, --tcp
-Display TCP flows. That's default when flowtop is started without
+Display TCP flows. That is the default when flowtop is started without
any arguments.
.PP
.SS -U, --udp
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ service resolution and lookup information.
With a fairly high rate of connection tracking updates, flowtop can become
unresponsive for short periods of time while scrolling. The right fix would
be to replace flowtop's connection management backend with a better design
-resp. locking approach. Still on todo.
+with respect to the locking approach. This is still on the "todo" list.
.PP
.SH LEGAL
flowtop is licensed under the GNU GPL version 2.0.