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authorJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>2009-01-08 18:04:40 +0100
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2009-01-08 18:04:40 +0100
commit0c2b5a4aff8ee61529aca8541f7fdae18500470f (patch)
treec411d0be49f9cc592e73e625412bd866c00ba007 /iptables.8.in
parent8d67190c5501fd99a71908838ad6d36444234124 (diff)
doc: resynchronize markup in iptables,ip6tables.8.in
Change .br to .PP in the intro section and use consistent paragraphing in later ones. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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@@ -56,12 +56,11 @@ tables of IPv4 packet
filter rules in the Linux kernel. Several different tables
may be defined. Each table contains a number of built-in
chains and may also contain user-defined chains.
-
+.PP
Each chain is a list of rules which can match a set of packets. Each
rule specifies what to do with a packet that matches. This is called
a `target', which may be a jump to a user-defined chain in the same
table.
-
.SH TARGETS
A firewall rule specifies criteria for a packet and a target. If the
packet does not match, the next rule in the chain is the examined; if
@@ -342,7 +341,7 @@ module. You can specify multiple extended match modules in one line,
and you can use the \fB-h\fP or \fB--help\fP
options after the module has been specified to receive help specific
to that module.
-
+.PP
The following are included in the base package, and most of these can
be preceded by a "\fB!\fP" to invert the sense of the match.
.\" @MATCH@