From: "Bastien Roucariès" <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Bastien Roucariès" <rouca@debian.org>
Subject: [PATCH iproute2 2/6] Improve hairpin mode description
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 15:48:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200405134859.57232-3-rouca@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200405134859.57232-1-rouca@debian.org>
Mention VEPA and reflective relay.
Signed-off-by: Bastien Roucariès <rouca@debian.org>
---
man/man8/bridge.8 | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/man8/bridge.8 b/man/man8/bridge.8
index efb84582..4dc8a63c 100644
--- a/man/man8/bridge.8
+++ b/man/man8/bridge.8
@@ -332,7 +332,9 @@ cause the port to stop processing STP BPDUs.
.TP
.BR "hairpin on " or " hairpin off "
Controls whether traffic may be send back out of the port on which it was
-received. By default, this flag is turned off and the bridge will not forward
+received. This option is also called reflective relay mode, and is used to support
+basic VEPA (Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator) capabilities.
+By default, this flag is turned off and the bridge will not forward
traffic back out of the receiving port.
.TP
--
2.25.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-05 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-05 13:48 Improve documentation of bridge Bastien Roucariès
2020-04-05 13:48 ` [PATCH iproute2 1/6] Better documentation of mcast_to_unicast option Bastien Roucariès
2020-04-05 13:48 ` Bastien Roucariès [this message]
2020-04-05 13:48 ` [PATCH iproute2 3/6] Document BPDU filter option Bastien Roucariès
2020-04-05 13:48 ` [PATCH iproute2 4/6] Better documentation of BDPU guard Bastien Roucariès
2020-04-05 13:48 ` [PATCH iproute2 5/6] Document root_block option Bastien Roucariès
2020-04-06 9:54 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2020-04-05 13:48 ` [PATCH iproute2 6/6] State of bridge STP port are now case insensitive Bastien Roucariès
2020-04-12 23:50 ` [V2][PATH 0/6] iproute improve documentation of bridge roucaries.bastien
2020-04-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 1/6] Better documentation of mcast_to_unicast option roucaries.bastien
2020-04-20 16:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 2/6] Improve hairpin mode description roucaries.bastien
2020-04-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 3/6] Document BPDU filter option roucaries.bastien
2020-04-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 4/6] Better documentation of BDPU guard roucaries.bastien
2020-04-13 9:28 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2020-04-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 5/6] Document root_block option roucaries.bastien
2020-04-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 6/6] State of bridge STP port are now case insensitive roucaries.bastien
2020-04-20 16:51 ` [V2][PATH 0/6] iproute improve documentation of bridge Stephen Hemminger
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