From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] doc/ip-sysctl: add bc_forwarding
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:00:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220413140000.23648-1-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> (raw)
Let's describe this sysctl.
Fixes: 5cbf777cfdf6 ("route: add support for directed broadcast forwarding")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
---
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index b0024aa7b051..66828293d9cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -267,6 +267,13 @@ ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
Default: 64
+bc_forwarding - INTEGER
+ bc_forwarding enables the feature described in rfc1812#section-5.3.5.2
+ and rfc2644. It allows the router to forward directed broadcast.
+ To enable this feature, the 'all' entry and the input interface entry
+ should be set to 1.
+ Default: 0
+
INET peer storage
=================
--
2.33.0
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