Commit d2afc2cd authored by Hangbin Liu's avatar Hangbin Liu Committed by Paolo Abeni
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docs: bridge: add other features 



Add some features that are not appropriate for the existing section to
the "Others" part of the bridge document.

Acked-by: default avatarNikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
parent 1b1a4c7e

Documentation/networking/bridge.rst

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@@ -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

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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/>`_.



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