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_pgm.7 | 5 +++++ man/man7/zmq_tcp.7 | 5 +++++ man/man7/zmq_udp.7 | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'man/man7') diff --git a/man/man7/zmq_pgm.7 b/man/man7/zmq_pgm.7 index e432730..68af978 100644 --- a/man/man7/zmq_pgm.7 +++ b/man/man7/zmq_pgm.7 @@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ mutlicast group should be specified in the numeric representation. For example: pgm://192.168.0.111:224.0.0.1:5555 .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 Consecutive PGM packets are interpreted as a single continuous stream of data. 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. diff --git a/man/man7/zmq_udp.7 b/man/man7/zmq_udp.7 index bfebc1c..151a6d4 100644 --- a/man/man7/zmq_udp.7 +++ b/man/man7/zmq_udp.7 @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ mutlicast group should be specified in the numeric representation. For example: udp://192.168.0.111:224.0.0.1:5555 .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 Same as with PGM transport except for UDP packet headers. -- cgit v1.2.3