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Mention VEPA and reflective relay.

Signed-off-by: Bastien Roucariès <rouca@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Bastien Roucariès 2020-04-13 01:50:34 +02:00 committed by Stephen Hemminger
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@ -332,7 +332,9 @@ cause the port to stop processing STP BPDUs.
.TP
.BR "hairpin on " or " hairpin off "
Controls whether traffic may be send back out of the port on which it was
received. By default, this flag is turned off and the bridge will not forward
received. This option is also called reflective relay mode, and is used to support
basic VEPA (Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator) capabilities.
By default, this flag is turned off and the bridge will not forward
traffic back out of the receiving port.
.TP