LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

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diff --git a/original/man7/ipv6.7 b/original/man7/ipv6.7
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--- a/original/man7/ipv6.7
+++ b/original/man7/ipv6.7
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 .\"        commit c4062dfc425e94290ac427a98d6b4721dd2bc91f
 .\"        Author: Erich E. Hoover <ehoover@mines.edu>
 .\"
-.TH IPV6 7 2012-12-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH IPV6 7 2014-08-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 ipv6 \- Linux IPv6 protocol implementation
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ should be used.
 .PP
 IPv4 connections can be handled with the v6 API by using the
 v4-mapped-on-v6 address type;
-thus a program only needs to support this API type to
+thus a program needs to support only this API type to
 support both protocols.
 This is handled transparently by the address
 handling functions in the C library.
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ is the 128-bit IPv6 address.
 .I sin6_scope_id
 is an ID depending on the scope of the address.
 It is new in Linux 2.4.
-Linux only supports it for link-local addresses, in that case
+Linux supports it only for link-local addresses, in that case
 .I sin6_scope_id
 contains the interface index (see
 .BR netdevice (7))
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ socket into a socket of a different address family.
 Only
 .B AF_INET
 is currently supported for that.
-It is only allowed for IPv6 sockets
+It is allowed only for IPv6 sockets
 that are connected and bound to a v4-mapped-on-v6 address.
 The argument is a pointer to an integer containing
 .BR AF_INET .
@@ -246,8 +246,7 @@ between 0 and 255.
 .TP
 .B IPV6_MULTICAST_IF
 Set the device for outgoing multicast packets on the socket.
-This is only allowed
-for
+This is allowed only for
 .B SOCK_DGRAM
 and
 .B SOCK_RAW
@@ -314,7 +313,9 @@ Argument is a pointer to boolean.
 .B IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT
 Pass forwarded packets containing a router alert hop-by-hop option to
 this socket.
-Only allowed for SOCK_RAW sockets.
+Only allowed for
+.B SOCK_RAW
+sockets.
 The tapped packets are not forwarded by the kernel, it is the
 user's responsibility to send them out again.
 Argument is a pointer to an integer.
@@ -348,7 +349,6 @@ The default value for this flag is defined by the contents of the file
 The default value for that file is 0 (false).
 .\" FLOWLABEL_MGR, FLOWINFO_SEND
 .SH ERRORS
-.\" FIXME document all errors.
 .TP
 .B ENODEV
 The user tried to
@@ -360,11 +360,6 @@ in the supplied
 structure is not a valid
 interface index.
 .SH VERSIONS
-The older
-.I libinet6
-libc5 based IPv6 API implementation for Linux is not described here
-and may vary in details.
-.PP
 Linux 2.4 will break binary compatibility for the
 .I sockaddr_in6
 for 64-bit
@@ -416,3 +411,12 @@ This man page is not complete.
 RFC\ 2553: IPv6 BASIC API;
 Linux tries to be compliant to this.
 RFC\ 2460: IPv6 specification.
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.