docs/man/nut-scanner.txt: note that some protocols require IP address…

… options and others behave differently without them [networkupstools#2244] Signed-off-by: Jim Klimov <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/docs/man/nut-scanner.txt b/docs/man/nut-scanner.txt
@@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ This option must be requested explicitly, even for a complete scan.
 NETWORK OPTIONS
 ---------------
 
+NOTE: Some of the networked buses (such as SNMP, NetXML, IPMI and "Old NUT")
+require IP address(es) to scan, and others have a
+different behavior when exactly no addresses are specified (it is not currently
+possible to mix the two behaviors in one invocation of the `nut-scanner` tool).
+
 *-t* | *--timeout* 'timeout'::
 Set the network timeout in seconds. Default timeout is 5 seconds.
 

diff --git a/docs/nut.dict b/docs/nut.dict
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-personal_ws-1.1 en 3177 utf-8
+personal_ws-1.1 en 3178 utf-8
 AAC
 AAS
 ABI
@@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ NetInvent
 NetPro
 NetServer
 NetUps
+NetXML
 Netman
 NetworkUPSTools
 Neus