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From: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] Documentation: networking: ip-sysctl: Document src_valid_mark sysctl
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:37:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1396.1612834621@famine> (raw)

	Provide documentation for src_valid_mark sysctl, which was added
in commit 28f6aeea3f12 ("net: restore ip source validation").

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>

---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index fa544e9037b9..0fb39c895c95 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -1425,6 +1425,25 @@ rp_filter - INTEGER
 	Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
 	in startup scripts.
 
+src_valid_mark - BOOLEAN
+	- 0 - The fwmark of the packet is not included in reverse path
+	  route lookup.  This allows for asymmetric routing configurations
+	  utilizing the fwmark in only one direction, e.g., transparent
+	  proxying.
+
+	- 1 - The fwmark of the packet is included in reverse path route
+	  lookup.  This permits rp_filter to function when the fwmark is
+	  used for routing traffic in both directions.
+
+	This setting also affects the utilization of fmwark when
+	performing source address selection for ICMP replies, or
+	determining addresses stored for the IPOPT_TS_TSANDADDR and
+	IPOPT_RR IP options.
+
+	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/src_valid_mark is used.
+
+	Default value is 0.
+
 arp_filter - BOOLEAN
 	- 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
 	  subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
-- 
2.29.GIT


             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-09  1:38 UTC|newest]

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2021-02-09  1:37 Jay Vosburgh [this message]
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