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authorDaniel Mack <github@zonque.org>2015-07-25 10:48:43 +0200
committerDaniel Mack <github@zonque.org>2015-07-25 10:48:43 +0200
commit3460810e8c61986a4605ad80c9e4805eb95cb5a1 (patch)
treed819524ea1ee5d6bb92e0156eca418319476e0dd /man/systemd.network.xml
parentc11ae0bacee4ab835526a7408f619a754b3b848e (diff)
parent23da66bb402cc6d9bca2eb34e090ccc24dfbf3f5 (diff)
Merge pull request #722 from keszybz/networkd-clarifications
Networkd clarifications
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.network.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.network.xml51
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml
index d654db4993..fbb0bef5c2 100644
--- a/man/systemd.network.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.network.xml
@@ -576,22 +576,23 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>SendHostname=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>When true (the default), the machine's hostname will be sent to the DHCP
- server</para>
+ <para>When true (the default), the machine's hostname will
+ be sent to the DHCP server.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>UseHostname=</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>When true (the default), the hostname received from
- the DHCP server will be used as the transient
- hostname.</para>
+ the DHCP server will be used as the transient hostname.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Hostname=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Hostname is a option to override the machine's hostname that will be sent to the DHCP server</para>
+ <para>Use this value for the hostname which is sent to the
+ DHCP server, instead of machine's hostname.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -671,51 +672,51 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>UnicastFlood=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>A boolean. UnicastFlood configures whether a given port will flood
- unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry. By default this
- flag is off.</para>
+ <para>A boolean. Controls whether the bridge should flood
+ traffic for which an FDB entry is missing and the destination
+ is unknown through this port. Defaults to on.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>HairPin=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para> A boolean. Configures whether traffic may be send back
- out of the port on which it was received. By default, this
- flag is false. and the bridge will not forward traffic back
- out of the receiving port. By default the flag is off.</para>
+ <para>A boolean. Configures whether traffic may be sent back
+ out of the port on which it was received. By default, this
+ flag is false, and the bridge will not forward traffic back
+ out of the receiving port.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><varname>BPDUGuard=</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>UseBPDU=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para> A boolean. Configures whether STP Bridge Protocol Data Units will be
- processed by the bridge port. By default, the flag is false allowing BPDU
- processing. Turning this flag on will cause the port to stop processing
- STP Bridge Protocol Data Units. By default the flag is off.</para>
+ <para>A boolean. Configures whether STP Bridge Protocol Data Units will be
+ processed by the bridge port. Defaults to yes.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>FastLeave=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para> A boolean. This flag allows the bridge to immediately stop multicast
+ <para>A boolean. This flag allows the bridge to immediately stop multicast
traffic on a port that receives IGMP Leave message. It is only used with
- IGMP snooping if enabled on the bridge. By default the flag is off.</para>
+ IGMP snooping if enabled on the bridge. Defaults to off.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><varname>RootBlock=</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>AllowPortToBeRoot=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para> A boolean. Configures whether a given port is allowed to
- become root port or not. Only used when STP is enabled on the bridge.
- By default the flag is off.</para>
+ <para>A boolean. Configures whether a given port is allowed to
+ become a root port. Only used when STP is enabled on the bridge.
+ Defaults to on.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Cost=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Each port in a bridge may have different speed. Cost
+ <para>Sets the "cost" of sending packets of this interface.
+ Each port in a bridge may have different speed and the cost
is used to decide which link to use. Faster interfaces
- should have lower costs</para>
+ should have lower costs.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>