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| author | Bastien Roucariès <rouca@debian.org> | 2020-04-13 01:50:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> | 2020-04-20 09:45:37 -0700 |
| commit | 1cad8f8d78fd10d4bf86962ceb3b1e092fe9ef15 (patch) | |
| tree | e52f8b1c6d4d6fe246cd0c8406e37258524c08fd | |
| parent | 706f7d35e2cb9cdc935db3b7785b305029ffd736 (diff) | |
| download | iproute2-1cad8f8d78fd10d4bf86962ceb3b1e092fe9ef15.tar.gz | |
Improve hairpin mode description
Mention VEPA and reflective relay.
Signed-off-by: Bastien Roucariès <rouca@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man8/bridge.8 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/man8/bridge.8 b/man/man8/bridge.8 index ff6f6f377..584324b54 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 |