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author | Martin Sustrik <sustrik@fastmq.commkdir> | 2010-01-14 14:11:34 +0100 |
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committer | Martin Sustrik <sustrik@fastmq.commkdir> | 2010-01-14 14:11:34 +0100 |
commit | b60342ae1a95dbb303705f5b89a94b33805a3841 (patch) | |
tree | 830581b7c557e16a5aa951dbe5e77434b901cb3f /man/man7/zmq_tcp.7 | |
parent | 067ba3b9f77a253d4ce58e05ef1fa7702c32b2a3 (diff) |
man pages are more specific on NIC name issue
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man7/zmq_tcp.7')
-rw-r--r-- | man/man7/zmq_tcp.7 | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man7/zmq_tcp.7 b/man/man7/zmq_tcp.7 index aa3f56e..f5504c8 100644 --- a/man/man7/zmq_tcp.7 +++ b/man/man7/zmq_tcp.7 @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ a NIC name or a hostname (resolved by DNS): tcp://lo:32768 .fi +Note that NIC names are not standardised by POSIX. They tend to be rather +arbitrary and platform dependent. Say, "eth0" on Linux would correspond to "en0" +on OSX and "e1000g" on Solaris. On Windows platform, as there are no short NIC +names available, you have to use numeric IP addresses instead. + .SH WIRE FORMAT A message consists of a message length followed by message data. |