man8/bridge.8: be explicit that "flood" is an egress setting

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>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

diff --git a/man/man8/bridge.8 b/man/man8/bridge.8
index d0bcd708bb616d4b824e9cb90df4f2f331faaec7..9d8663bd23ccd7bf40971dd038704ba05280251b 100644 (file)
--- 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 "