[PATCH iproute2 6/6] man8/bridge.8: be explicit that "flood" is an egress setting
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-02-11 10:52:03
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Talking to varios people, it became apparent that there is a certain ambiguity in the description of these flags. They refer to egress flooding, which should perhaps be stated more clearly. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> --- man/man8/bridge.8 | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man8/bridge.8 b/man/man8/bridge.8
index d0bcd708bb61..9d8663bd23cc 100644
--- a/man/man8/bridge.8
+++ b/man/man8/bridge.8@@ -397,7 +397,8 @@ bridge FDB. .TP .BR "flood on " or " flood off " -Controls whether a given port will flood unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry. By default this flag is on. +Controls whether unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry will be +flooded towards this given port. By default this flag is on. .TP .B hwmode
@@ -413,8 +414,8 @@ switch. .TP .BR "mcast_flood on " or " mcast_flood off " -Controls whether a given port will flood multicast traffic for which -there is no MDB entry. By default this flag is on. +Controls whether multicast traffic for which there is no MDB entry will be +flooded towards this given port. By default this flag is on. .TP .BR "mcast_to_unicast on " or " mcast_to_unicast off "
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