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Convert manual list to Bl; fix typo; remove dot at end of SEE ALSO.

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.\" $NetBSD: shmif.4,v 1.2 2010/11/17 17:55:00 pooka Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: shmif.4,v 1.3 2010/11/17 18:02:20 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Antti Kantee
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -42,9 +42,14 @@ interface uses a memory mapped regular file as a virtual Ethernet bus.
All interfaces connected to the same bus see each others' traffic.
.Pp
Using a memory mapped regular file as a bus has two implications:
1) the bus identifier is not in flat global namespace 2) configuring
and using the interface is possible without superuser privileges
on the host (normal host file access permissions for the bus hold).
.Bl -enum
.It
The bus identifier is not in flat global namespace.
.It
Configuring and using the interface is possible without superuser
privileges on the host (normal host file access permissions for
the bus hold).
.El
.Pp
It is not possible to directly access the host networking
facilities from a rump virtual kernel using purely
@ -65,7 +70,7 @@ Programmatically by calling
.Fn rump_pub_shmif_create .
The bus pathname is passed in
.Fa path .
The number of the newly created interface is available after a succesful
The number of the newly created interface is available after a successful
call by dereferencing
.Fa ifnum .
.It
@ -88,4 +93,4 @@ interface is possible only via
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr rump 3 ,
.Xr virt 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Xr ifconfig 8