From 64237537e11a62ae24c9a16925e338af479a4f82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Brueffer Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:30:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bridge(4) acts like a switch, not like a hub. PR: 141350 Submitted by: brucec Reviewed by: thompsa MFC after: 1 week --- share/man/man4/bridge.4 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/man/man4/bridge.4 b/share/man/man4/bridge.4 index a31891a0cdbb..7d45356b974f 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/bridge.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/bridge.4 @@ -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.