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authorJouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>2013-07-24 10:57:48 +0200
committerJouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>2013-07-24 11:39:21 +0200
commit20c66d6499f22adad6c1dae854a627f061c5fbcb (patch)
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Use iproute2 for bridging (FS#36165)
This sheds the dependency on the old bridge-utils (brctl).
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/examples/bridge6
-rw-r--r--docs/netctl.profile.5.txt10
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/examples/bridge b/docs/examples/bridge
index 19cb0bd..3f38d7a 100644
--- a/docs/examples/bridge
+++ b/docs/examples/bridge
@@ -3,7 +3,5 @@ Interface=br0
Connection=bridge
BindsToInterfaces=(eth0 eth1 tap0)
IP=dhcp
-## sets forward delay time
-#FwdDelay=0
-## sets max age of hello message
-#MaxAge=10
+## Ignore (R)STP and immediately activate the bridge
+#SkipForwardingDelay=yes
diff --git a/docs/netctl.profile.5.txt b/docs/netctl.profile.5.txt
index fe0073e..ec36f47 100644
--- a/docs/netctl.profile.5.txt
+++ b/docs/netctl.profile.5.txt
@@ -286,14 +286,12 @@ connections of the `bond' type.
OPTIONS FOR `bridge' CONNECTIONS
--------------------------------
The interfaces of 'BindsToInterfaces' take part in the bridge named by
-'Interface'. Next to the *ip options*, the following are understood for
+'Interface'. Next to the *ip options*, the following is understood for
connections of the `bridge' type:
-'FwdDelay='::
- Forward delay of the bridge. See *brctl*(8) for details.
-
-'MaxAge='::
- Maximum age parameter. See *brctl*(8) for details.
+'SkipForwardingDelay='::
+ Skip \(R)STP and immediately activate all bridge members. This can
+ be useful when DHCP is used on the bridge.
OPTIONS FOR `pppoe' CONNECTIONS