man8/bridge.8: be explicit that "flood" is an egress setting

Talking to varios people, it became apparent that there is a certain
ambiguity in the description of these flags. They refer to egress
flooding, which should perhaps be stated more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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Vladimir Oltean 2021-02-11 12:45:02 +02:00 committed by Stephen Hemminger
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@ -397,7 +397,8 @@ bridge FDB.
.TP
.BR "flood on " or " flood off "
Controls whether a given port will flood unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry. By default this flag is on.
Controls whether unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry will be
flooded towards this given port. By default this flag is on.
.TP
.B hwmode
@ -413,8 +414,8 @@ switch.
.TP
.BR "mcast_flood on " or " mcast_flood off "
Controls whether a given port will flood multicast traffic for which
there is no MDB entry. By default this flag is on.
Controls whether multicast traffic for which there is no MDB entry will be
flooded towards this given port. By default this flag is on.
.TP
.BR "mcast_to_unicast on " or " mcast_to_unicast off "