Commit 0bdb83cd authored by Vijay Subramanian's avatar Vijay Subramanian Committed by Stephen Hemminger

netem: Fix up grammatical errors in man page

Signed-off-by: default avatarVijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
parent f6062360
......@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ NetEm \- Network Emulator
NetEm is an enhancement of the Linux traffic control facilities
that allow to add delay, packet loss, duplication and more other
characteristics to packets outgoing from a selected network
interface. NetEm is build using the existing Quality Of Service (QOS)
interface. NetEm is built using the existing Quality Of Service (QOS)
and Differentiated Services (diffserv) facilities in the Linux
kernel.
......@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ optional parameters allows to introduce a delay variation and a correlation.
Delay and jitter values are expressed in ms while correlation is percentage.
.SS distribution
allow the choose the delay distribution. If not specified, the default
distribution is normal. Additional parameters allow to consider situations in
allow the user to choose the delay distribution. If not specified, the default
distribution is Normal. Additional parameters allow to consider situations in
which network has variable delays depending on traffic flows concurring on the
same path, that causes several delay peaks and a tail.
......@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ is now deprecated due to the noticed bad behavior.
.SS loss state
adds packet losses according to the 4-state Markov using the transition
probabilities as input parameters. The parameters p13 is mandatory and if used
probabilities as input parameters. The parameter p13 is mandatory and if used
alone corresponds to the Bernoulli model. The optional parameters allows to
extend the model to 2-state (p31), 3-state (p23 and p32) and 4-state (p14).
State 1 corresponds to good reception, State 4 to independent losses, State 3
......@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ to burst losses and State 2 to good reception within a burst.
.SS loss gemodel
adds packet losses according to the Gilbert-Elliot loss model or its special
cases (Gilbert, Simple Gilbert and Bernoulli). To use the Bernoulli model, the
only needed parameter is p while the the others will be set to the default
only needed parameter is p while the others will be set to the default
values r=1-p, 1-h=1 and 1-k=0. The parameters needed for the Simple Gilbert
model are two (p and r), while three parameters (p, r, 1-h) are needed for the
Gilbert model and four (p, r, 1-h and 1-k) are needed for the Gilbert-Elliot
......@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ the good states, 1-h is the loss probability in the bad state and 1-k is the
loss probability in the good state.
.SS corrupt
allows the emulate the random noise introducing an error in a random position
allows the emulation of random noise introducing an error in a random position
for a chosen percent of packets. It is also possible to add a correlation
through the proper parameter.
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