From e1d79d49edb6e6ebf7e54b55948dfad150090592 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Oltean Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:45:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man8/bridge.8: be explicit that "flood" is an egress setting 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 Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- 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 d0bcd708b..9d8663bd2 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 " -- 2.47.3