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diff --git a/python/vyos/ifconfig/input.py b/python/vyos/ifconfig/input.py
index db7d2b6b4..3e5f5790d 100644
--- a/python/vyos/ifconfig/input.py
+++ b/python/vyos/ifconfig/input.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2020 VyOS maintainers and contributors <maintainers@vyos.io>
+# Copyright 2023 VyOS maintainers and contributors <maintainers@vyos.io>
#
# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
@@ -17,6 +17,16 @@ from vyos.ifconfig.interface import Interface
@Interface.register
class InputIf(Interface):
+ """
+ The Intermediate Functional Block (ifb) pseudo network interface acts as a
+ QoS concentrator for multiple different sources of traffic. Packets from
+ or to other interfaces have to be redirected to it using the mirred action
+ in order to be handled, regularly routed traffic will be dropped. This way,
+ a single stack of qdiscs, classes and filters can be shared between
+ multiple interfaces.
+ """
+
+ iftype = 'ifb'
definition = {
**Interface.definition,
**{