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[PATCHv4,net-next,10/10] docs: bridge: add other features

Message ID 20231201081951.1623069-11-liuhangbin@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
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Commit d2afc2cd7f1f46500e7ca830c453266f365ee43d
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Series Doc: update bridge doc | expand

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Commit Message

Hangbin Liu Dec. 1, 2023, 8:19 a.m. UTC 
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>
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 Documentation/networking/bridge.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bridge.rst b/Documentation/networking/bridge.rst
index 39ff8d126a04..ba14e7b07869 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bridge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bridge.rst
@@ -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/>`_.
+
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