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Bug 1276661 - Doc: ip-neighbour man page and ip neighbour help issues
Summary: Doc: ip-neighbour man page and ip neighbour help issues
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: iproute
Version: 7.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Phil Sutter
QA Contact: Jaroslav Aster
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-30 12:09 UTC by Jaroslav Aster
Modified: 2016-11-03 23:36 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: iproute-3.10.0-70.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-11-03 23:36:42 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2016:2162 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE iproute bug fix and enhancement update 2016-11-03 13:14:33 UTC

Description Jaroslav Aster 2015-10-30 12:09:20 UTC 
Description of problem:

This bug describes several issues which was founded in ip-neighbour manpage and ip neighbour help.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

iproute-3.10.0-54.el7


How reproducible:

100%


1,

There are bad offsets of starts of description of commands ip neighbour delete/show/flush in ip-neighbour man page.

       stale  the neighbour ...
              ip neighbour delete - delete a neighbour entry
       This command invalidates a neighbour entry.


       Warning: Attempts to ...
       interface or if the address is multicast or broadcast.

              ip neighbour show - list neighbour entries

       This command displays neighbour tables.


       nud NUD_STATE
              only list neighbour ...

              ip neighbour flush - flush neighbour entries

       This command flushes neighbour tables, selecting entries to ...

The fix is easy.

2,

ip neighbour recognises 9 nud states: permanent, reachable, noarp, none, stale, incomplete, delay, probe, failed, but not all are mentioned in ip neighbour man page or ip neigh help.

The fix is easy.
Comment 1 Jaroslav Aster 2015-10-30 16:25:41 UTC 
Founded issues:

:: [   FAIL   ] :: Checking there is 'all' in ip neighbour help. (Expected 0, got 1)
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Checking there is 'unused' in ip neighbour help. (Expected 0, got 1)

all and unused are used in flush and show commands.

:: [   FAIL   ] :: Checking there is 'probe' in ip neighbour help. (Expected 0, got 1)
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Checking there is 'probe' in ip-neighbour man page. (Expected 0, got 1)
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Checking there is 'failed' in ip neighbour help. (Expected 0, got 1)
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Checking there is 'failed' in ip-neighbour man page. (Expected 0, got 1)
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Checking there is 'incomplete' in ip neighbour help. (Expected 0, got 1)
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Checking there is 'incomplete' in ip-neighbour man page. (Expected 0, got 1)
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Checking there is 'delay' in ip neighbour help. (Expected 0, got 1)
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Checking there is 'delay' in ip-neighbour man page. (Expected 0, got 1)
:: [   FAIL   ] :: Checking there is 'none' in ip neighbour help. (Expected 0, got 1)

probe, failed, incomplete delay and none are nud states.
Comment 2 Phil Sutter 2016-01-12 17:08:12 UTC 
The following upstream commit fixes the first issue:

commit 882e754cd4b3f302714bae777ee674fe6c61d04b
Author: Stephen Hemminger <stephen>
Date:   Mon Mar 31 20:23:40 2014 -0700

    fix indentation of ip neighbour man page
    
    Formatting was awful and unclear on ip neighbour

The second issue still needs to be fixed upstream.
Comment 5 Jaroslav Aster 2016-07-21 14:08:44 UTC 
(In reply to Phil Sutter from comment #2)
> 
> The second issue still needs to be fixed upstream.

Understand, but help and man-page are still inconsistent so switching it to assigned state.


man-page:

       STATE := { permanent | noarp | stale | reachable | none | incomplete | delay | probe | failed }


help:

          [ nud { permanent | noarp | stale | reachable } ]
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 23:36:42 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2016-2162.html
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