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| author | Neil Jerram <neil@tigera.io> | 2017-03-10 12:24:57 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-03-12 23:28:43 -0700 |
| commit | 88a7cddce2506b0b6c06a9f6e51379d0d275353b (patch) | |
| tree | 306e11111ee87797344b527105512eb4dae73c9e /Documentation | |
| parent | 7ce101246655935b014b11d81f815342921f5654 (diff) | |
Make IP 'forwarding' doc more precise
It wasn't clear if the 'forwarding' setting needs to be enabled on the
interface that packets are received from, or on the interface that
packets are forwarded to, or both.
In fact (according to my code reading) the setting is relevant on the
interface that packets are received from, so this change updates the doc
to say that.
Signed-off-by: Neil Jerram <neil@tigera.io>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index fc73eeb7b3b8..ab0230461377 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1006,7 +1006,8 @@ accept_redirects - BOOLEAN FALSE (router) forwarding - BOOLEAN - Enable IP forwarding on this interface. + Enable IP forwarding on this interface. This controls whether packets + received _on_ this interface can be forwarded. mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE |