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authorBastien Roucariès <rouca@debian.org>2020-04-13 01:50:38 +0200
committerStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>2020-04-20 09:45:37 -0700
commit8d5d91fd5874744abb685a7cd980a4f0b01be9af (patch)
tree2a2b8f5960ab1970de08ed3545323a62a4c7ff54
parent498883a00f522f812cb9d38802c145a5828d7df7 (diff)
downloadiproute2-8d5d91fd5874744abb685a7cd980a4f0b01be9af.tar.gz
State of bridge STP port are now case insensitive
Improve use experience Signed-off-by: Bastien Roucariès <rouca@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
-rw-r--r--bridge/link.c2
-rw-r--r--man/man8/bridge.816
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/bridge/link.c b/bridge/link.c
index 074edf000..3bc7af209 100644
--- a/bridge/link.c
+++ b/bridge/link.c
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static int brlink_modify(int argc, char **argv)
state = strtol(*argv, &endptr, 10);
if (!(**argv != '\0' && *endptr == '\0')) {
for (state = 0; state < nstates; state++)
- if (strcmp(port_states[state], *argv) == 0)
+ if (strcasecmp(port_states[state], *argv) == 0)
break;
if (state == nstates) {
fprintf(stderr,
diff --git a/man/man8/bridge.8 b/man/man8/bridge.8
index ff6a5cc90..5efbd466d 100644
--- a/man/man8/bridge.8
+++ b/man/man8/bridge.8
@@ -293,29 +293,29 @@ droot port selectio algorithms.
.TP
.BI state " STATE "
-the operation state of the port. Except state 0 (disabled),
+the operation state of the port. Except state 0 (disable STP or BPDU filter feature),
this is primarily used by user space STP/RSTP
-implementation. One may enter a lowercased port state name, or one of the
+implementation. One may enter port state name (case insensitive), or one of the
numbers below. Negative inputs are ignored, and unrecognized names return an
error.
.B 0
-- port is in
+- port is in STP
.B DISABLED
-state. Make this port completely inactive. This is also called
+state. Make this port completely inactive for STP. This is also called
BPDU filter and could be used to disable STP on an untrusted port, like
a leaf virtual devices.
.sp
.B 1
-- STP
+- port is in STP
.B LISTENING
state. Only valid if STP is enabled on the bridge. In this
state the port listens for STP BPDUs and drops all other traffic frames.
.sp
.B 2
-- STP
+- port is in STP
.B LEARNING
state. Only valid if STP is enabled on the bridge. In this
state the port will accept traffic only for the purpose of updating MAC
@@ -323,13 +323,13 @@ address tables.
.sp
.B 3
-- STP
+- port is in STP
.B FORWARDING
state. Port is fully active.
.sp
.B 4
-- STP
+- port is in STP
.B BLOCKING
state. Only valid if STP is enabled on the bridge. This state
is used during the STP election process. In this state, port will only process