doc: clarify the description of the veth network type in the manpage.

Signed-off-by: Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> Acked-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>

doc: clarify the description of the veth network type in the manpage.
38005c54 · Michael Adam · Stéphane Graber · db2930e1 · 38005c54
Commit 38005c54 authored Jan 13, 2015 by Michael Adam Committed by Stéphane Graber Jan 15, 2015
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@@ -267,20 +267,20 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
            </para>
            <para>
-              <option>veth:</option> a peer network device is created
+              <option>veth:</option> a virtual ethernet pair
-              with one side assigned to the container and the other
+              device is created with one side assigned to the container
-              side is attached to a bridge specified by
+              and the other side attached to a bridge specified by
-              the <option>lxc.network.link</option>. If the bridge is
+              the <option>lxc.network.link</option> option.
-              not specified, then the veth pair device will be created
+              If the bridge is not specified, then the veth pair device
-              but not attached to any bridge. Otherwise, the bridge
+              will be created but not attached to any bridge.
-              has to be setup before on the
+              Otherwise, the bridge has to be created on the system
-              system, <command>lxc</command> won't handle any
+              before starting the container.
-              configuration outside of the container.  By
+              <command>lxc</command> won't handle any
-              default <command>lxc</command> choose a name for the
+              configuration outside of the container.
+              By default, <command>lxc</command> chooses a name for the
              network device belonging to the outside of the
-              container, this name is handled
+              container, but if you wish to handle
-              by <command>lxc</command>, but if you wish to handle
+              this name yourselves, you can tell <command>lxc</command>
-              this name yourself, you can tell <command>lxc</command>
              to set a specific name with
              the <option>lxc.network.veth.pair</option> option (except for
              unprivileged containers where this option is ignored for security