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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2016-08-09 11:40:02 -0700
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2016-08-09 11:40:02 -0700
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Note that interfaces may have numerical names.
If N is a number, and is the name of an interface on the system, "-i N" will now attempt to open that interface, not the Nth interface in the list of interfaces. See GitHub issue #522.
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@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ If the
flag is supported, an interface number as printed by that flag can be
used as the
.I interface
-argument.
+argument, if no interface on the system has that number as a name.
.TP
.B \-I
.PD 0