From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>,
DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>,
Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com>,
Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: [PATCH iproute2 6/6] man8/bridge.8: be explicit that "flood" is an egress setting
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:45:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210211104502.2081443-7-olteanv@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210211104502.2081443-1-olteanv@gmail.com>
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 "
--
2.25.1
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-11 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-11 10:44 [PATCH iproute2 0/6] Clarifications to bridge man page Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-11 10:44 ` [PATCH iproute2 1/6] man8/bridge.8: document the "permanent" flag for "bridge fdb add" Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-11 10:44 ` [PATCH iproute2 2/6] man8/bridge.8: document that "local" is default " Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-11 10:44 ` [PATCH iproute2 3/6] man8/bridge.8: explain what a local FDB entry is Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-11 10:45 ` [PATCH iproute2 4/6] man8/bridge.8: fix which one of self/master is default for "bridge fdb" Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-11 10:45 ` [PATCH iproute2 5/6] man8/bridge.8: explain self vs master for "bridge fdb add" Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-15 8:22 ` Alexandra Winter
2021-02-15 10:32 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-15 10:53 ` Alexandra Winter
2021-02-15 12:13 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-15 12:33 ` Alexandra Winter
2021-02-11 10:45 ` Vladimir Oltean [this message]
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