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[iproute2,6/6] man8/bridge.8: be explicit that "flood" is an egress setting

Message ID 20210211104502.2081443-7-olteanv@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Stephen Hemminger
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Series Clarifications to bridge man page | expand

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Vladimir Oltean Feb. 11, 2021, 10:45 a.m. UTC 
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>
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 man/man8/bridge.8 | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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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 "