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[5.12.227.87]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l1sm3815458eje.12.2021.02.11.02.45.30 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:45:31 -0800 (PST) From: Vladimir Oltean To: David Ahern , netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Lunn , Florian Fainelli , Vivien Didelot , Jiri Pirko , Ido Schimmel , DENG Qingfang , Tobias Waldekranz , Roopa Prabhu , Nikolay Aleksandrov , Stephen Hemminger 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 Message-Id: <20210211104502.2081443-7-olteanv@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20210211104502.2081443-1-olteanv@gmail.com> References: <20210211104502.2081443-1-olteanv@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org From: Vladimir Oltean 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 --- 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