PR/33672: Hauke Fath: sl(4) manpage does not document link[0-2]

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.\" $NetBSD: sl.4,v 1.11 2006/06/17 04:58:14 reed Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: sl.4,v 1.12 2006/07/08 16:36:53 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -45,13 +45,6 @@ interface allows asynchronous serial lines to be used as
network interfaces using the
.Tn SLIP
protocol.
The
.Nm
interface can use Van Jacobson
.Tn TCP
header compression and
.Tn ICMP
filtering.
.Pp
However,
.Tn SLIP
@ -69,6 +62,26 @@ This is why
has been superseded by the Point-to-Point Protocol
.Pq Tn PPP ,
which does all of those things, and much more.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver provides Van Jacobson header compression,
and ICMP filtering, under control of the following options to
.Xr ifconfig 8 :
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width 15n -offset indent -compact
.It link0
Apply VJ compression to outgoing packets on this interface,
and assume that incoming packets require decompression
(default: disabled).
.It link1
Filter ICMP to save bandwidth on low-speed lines (default: disabled).
.It link2
Check incoming packets for VJ compression;
if they appear to be compressed, automatically set
link0 (default: enabled).
.El
.Pp
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It sl%d: af%d not supported .
@ -80,6 +93,7 @@ family; the packet was dropped.
.Xr inet 4 ,
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr ppp 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
.Xr slattach 8 ,
.Xr sliplogin 8 ,
.Xr slstats 8