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docs: bridge: add other features
authorHangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Fri, 1 Dec 2023 08:19:50 +0000 (16:19 +0800)
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Tue, 5 Dec 2023 09:48:01 +0000 (10:48 +0100)
Add some features that are not appropriate for the existing section to
the "Others" part of the bridge document.

Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Documentation/networking/bridge.rst

index 39ff8d126a044291d5ced5ec73c1ea49caa308d3..ba14e7b07869c96b8c291bc80c854d5f210f2cb9 100644 (file)
@@ -287,6 +287,20 @@ So, br_netfilter is only needed if users, for some reason, need to use
 ip(6)tables to filter packets forwarded by the bridge, or NAT bridged
 traffic. For pure link layer filtering, this module isn't needed.
 
+Other Features
+==============
+
+The Linux bridge also supports `IEEE 802.11 Proxy ARP
+<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=958501163ddd6ea22a98f94fa0e7ce6d4734e5c4>`_,
+`Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP)
+<https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200426132208.3232-1-horatiu.vultur@microchip.com/>`_,
+`Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) LC mode
+<https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201124082525.273820-1-horatiu.vultur@microchip.com>`_,
+`IEEE 802.1X port authentication
+<https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220218155148.2329797-1-schultz.hans+netdev@gmail.com/>`_,
+and `MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB)
+<https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20221101193922.2125323-2-idosch@nvidia.com/>`_.
+
 FAQ
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