netdev - [PATCH iproute2 3/6] man8/bridge.8: explain what a local FDB entry is

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Message-Id: <20210211104502.2081443-4-olteanv@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:44:59 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>,
        DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>,
        Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: [PATCH iproute2 3/6] man8/bridge.8: explain what a local FDB entry is

From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Explaining the "local" flag by saying that it is "a local permanent fdb
entry" is not very helpful, be more specific.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
---
 man/man8/bridge.8 | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man8/bridge.8 b/man/man8/bridge.8
index 223e65d64757..b629c52b8341 100644
--- a/man/man8/bridge.8
+++ b/man/man8/bridge.8
@@ -514,8 +514,10 @@ the Ethernet MAC address.
 the interface to which this address is associated.
 
 .B local
-- is a local permanent fdb entry. This flag is default unless "static" or
-  "dynamic" are explicitly specified.
+- is a local permanent fdb entry, which means that the bridge will not forward
+frames with this destination MAC address and VLAN ID, but terminate them
+locally. This flag is default unless "static" or "dynamic" are explicitly
+specified.
 .sp
 
 .B permanent
-- 
2.25.1