svn commit: r201888 - head/share/man/man4
Christian Brueffer
brueffer at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 9 09:30:10 UTC 2010
Author: brueffer
Date: Sat Jan 9 09:30:09 2010
New Revision: 201888
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/201888
Log:
bridge(4) acts like a switch, not like a hub.
PR: 141350
Submitted by: brucec
Reviewed by: thompsa
MFC after: 1 week
Modified:
head/share/man/man4/bridge.4
Modified: head/share/man/man4/bridge.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/bridge.4 Sat Jan 9 06:30:40 2010 (r201887)
+++ head/share/man/man4/bridge.4 Sat Jan 9 09:30:09 2010 (r201888)
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 8, 2009
+.Dd January 9, 2010
.Dt IF_BRIDGE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ by-default.
A bridge can be used to provide several services, such as a simple
802.11-to-Ethernet bridge for wireless hosts, and traffic isolation.
.Pp
-A bridge works like a hub, forwarding traffic from one interface
+A bridge works like a switch, forwarding traffic from one interface
to another.
Multicast and broadcast packets are always forwarded to all
interfaces that are part of the bridge.
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