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diff --git a/iptables.8.in b/iptables.8.in
index 10dcb734..14fc23ad 100644
--- a/iptables.8.in
+++ b/iptables.8.in
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ Protocol \fBall\fP
will match with all protocols and is taken as default when this
option is omitted.
.TP
-[\fB!\fP] \fB\-s\fP, \fB\-\-source\fP \fIaddress\fP[\fB/\fP\fImask\fP]
+[\fB!\fP] \fB\-s\fP, \fB\-\-source\fP \fIaddress\fP[\fB/\fP\fImask\fP][\fB,\fP\fI...\fP]
Source specification. \fIAddress\fP
can be either a network name, a hostname (please note that specifying
any name to be resolved with a remote query such as DNS is a really bad idea),
@@ -247,8 +247,11 @@ specifying the number of 1's at the left side of the network mask.
Thus, a mask of \fI24\fP is equivalent to \fI255.255.255.0\fP.
A "!" argument before the address specification inverts the sense of
the address. The flag \fB\-\-src\fP is an alias for this option.
+Multiple addresses can be specified, but this will \fBexpand to multiple
+rules\fP (when adding with \-A), or will cause multiple rules to be
+deleted (with \-D).
.TP
-[\fB!\fP] \fB\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destination\fP \fIaddress\fP[\fB/\fP\fImask\fP]
+[\fB!\fP] \fB\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destination\fP \fIaddress\fP[\fB/\fP\fImask\fP][\fB,\fP\fI...\fP]
Destination specification.
See the description of the \fB\-s\fP
(source) flag for a detailed description of the syntax. The flag