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diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index 198d70b5..38f5dcea 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -193,13 +193,19 @@ name=str	ASCII name of the job. This may be used to override the
 		special purpose of also signaling the start of a new
 		job.
 
+description=str	Text description of the job. Doesn't do anything except
+		dump this text description when this job is run. It's
+		not parsed.
+
 directory=str	Prefix filenames with this directory. Used to places files
 		in a different location than "./".
 
 filename=str	Fio normally makes up a filename based on the job name,
 		thread number, and file number. If you want to share
 		files between threads in a job or several jobs, specify
-		a filename for each of them to override the default.
+		a filename for each of them to override the default. If
+		the ioengine used is 'net', the filename is the host and
+		port to connect to in the format of =host:port.
 
 rw=str		Type of io pattern. Accepted values are:
 
@@ -274,6 +280,12 @@ ioengine=str	Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following
 				to. This is mainly used to exercise fio
 				itself and for debugging/testing purposes.
 
+			net	Transfer over the network to given host:port.
+				'filename' must be set appropriately to
+				filename=host:port regardless of send
+				or receive, if the latter only the port
+				argument is used.
+
 iodepth=int	This defines how many io units to keep in flight against
 		the file. The default is 1 for each file defined in this
 		job, can be overridden with a larger value for higher