From: Roman Mashak Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 19:46:12 +0000 (-0400) Subject: ip: updated ip-link man page X-Git-Tag: v5.9.0~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aba44dc2eaf035387b979b7f4acba67fada844a4;p=thirdparty%2Fiproute2.git ip: updated ip-link man page Added description of link flags allmulticast, promisc and trailers. Signed-off-by: Roman Mashak Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- diff --git a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in index 367105b72..f451ecf34 100644 --- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in +++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in @@ -1916,6 +1916,28 @@ change the .B MULTICAST 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