[packages/bridge-utils] - update man page to actual brctl

hawk hawk at pld-linux.org
Fri Jul 18 18:31:22 CEST 2014


commit 4470f5e602627d5d932cf3eae6a9168a86861cc3
Author: Marcin Krol <hawk at tld-linux.org>
Date:   Fri Jul 18 16:29:10 2014 +0000

    - update man page to actual brctl

 man.patch | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
---
diff --git a/man.patch b/man.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99af62e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+diff -ur bridge-utils-1.5.orig/doc/brctl.8 bridge-utils-1.5/doc/brctl.8
+--- bridge-utils-1.5.orig/doc/brctl.8	2011-03-29 00:52:54.000000000 +0000
++++ bridge-utils-1.5/doc/brctl.8	2014-07-18 15:58:06.318000000 +0000
+@@ -89,17 +89,12 @@
+ .B brctl showmacs <brname>
+ shows a list of learned MAC addresses for this bridge.
+ 
+-.B brctl setageingtime <brname> <time>
++.B brctl setageing <brname> <time>
+ sets the ethernet (MAC) address ageing time, in seconds. After <time>
+ seconds of not having seen a frame coming from a certain address, the
+ bridge will time out (delete) that address from the Forwarding
+ DataBase (fdb).
+ 
+-.B brctl setgcint <brname> <time>
+-sets the garbage collection interval for the bridge <brname> to <time>
+-seconds. This means that the bridge will check the forwarding database
+-for timed out entries every <time> seconds.
+-
+ 
+ .SH SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL
+ Multiple ethernet bridges can work together to create even larger
+@@ -107,7 +102,7 @@
+ protocol. This protocol is used for finding the shortest path between
+ two ethernets, and for eliminating loops from the topology. As this
+ protocol is a standard, linux bridges will interwork properly with
+-other third party bridge products. Bridges communicate with eachother
++other third party bridge products. Bridges communicate with each other
+ by sending and receiving BPDUs (Bridge Protocol Data Units). These
+ BPDUs can be recognised by an ethernet destination address of
+ 01:80:c2:00:00:00.
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