From b60342ae1a95dbb303705f5b89a94b33805a3841 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Sustrik Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:11:34 +0100 Subject: man pages are more specific on NIC name issue --- man/man7/zmq_tcp.7 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'man/man7/zmq_tcp.7') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3