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From: Roman Mashak <mrv@mojatatu.com>
To: stephen@networkplumber.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, kernel@mojatatu.com,
	jhs@mojatatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, jiri@resnulli.us,
	Roman Mashak <mrv@mojatatu.com>
Subject: [PATCH iproute2 1/1] ip: updated ip-link man page
Date: Tue,  1 Sep 2020 15:46:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1598989572-4694-1-git-send-email-mrv@mojatatu.com> (raw)

Added description of link flags allmulticast, promisc and trailers.

Signed-off-by: Roman Mashak <mrv@mojatatu.com>
---
 man/man8/ip-link.8.in | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
index 367105b72f44..f451ecf3418f 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
+++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
@@ -1917,6 +1917,28 @@ change the
 flag on the device.
 
 .TP
+.BR "allmulticast on " or " allmulticast off"
+change the
+.B ALLMULTI
+flag on the device. When enabled, instructs network driver to retrieve all
+multicast packets from the network to the kernel for further processing.
+
+.TP
+.BR "promisc on " or " promisc off"
+change the
+.B PROMISC
+flag on the device. When enabled, activates promiscuous operation of the
+network device.
+
+.TP
+.BR "trailers on " or " trailers off"
+change the
+.B NOTRAILERS
+flag on the device,
+.B NOT
+used by the Linux and exists for BSD compatibility.
+
+.TP
 .BR "protodown on " or " protodown off"
 change the
 .B PROTODOWN
-- 
2.7.4


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