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doc: clarify the description of the veth network type in the manpage.

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Signed-off-by: Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
Acked-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>
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@ -267,20 +267,20 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
</para>
<para>
<option>veth:</option> a peer network device is created
with one side assigned to the container and the other
side is attached to a bridge specified by
the <option>lxc.network.link</option>. If the bridge is
not specified, then the veth pair device will be created
but not attached to any bridge. Otherwise, the bridge
has to be setup before on the
system, <command>lxc</command> won't handle any
configuration outside of the container. By
default <command>lxc</command> choose a name for the
<option>veth:</option> a virtual ethernet pair
device is created with one side assigned to the container
and the other side attached to a bridge specified by
the <option>lxc.network.link</option> option.
If the bridge is not specified, then the veth pair device
will be created but not attached to any bridge.
Otherwise, the bridge has to be created on the system
before starting the container.
<command>lxc</command> won't handle any
configuration outside of the container.
By default, <command>lxc</command> chooses a name for the
network device belonging to the outside of the
container, this name is handled
by <command>lxc</command>, but if you wish to handle
this name yourself, you can tell <command>lxc</command>
container, but if you wish to handle
this name yourselves, you can tell <command>lxc</command>
to set a specific name with
the <option>lxc.network.veth.pair</option> option (except for
unprivileged containers where this option is ignored for security