[patch 23/32] IPV4: Correct rp_filter help text.

Chris Wright
2007-06-08T07:30:49Z

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-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

As mentioned in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5015
The helptext implies that this is on by default.
This may be true on some distros (Fedora/RHEL have it enabled
in /etc/sysctl.conf), but the kernel defaults to it off.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>

---
net/ipv4/Kconfig | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.20.13.orig/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6.20.13/net/ipv4/Kconfig
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
asymmetric routing (packets from you to a host take a different path
than packets from that host to you) or if you operate a non-routing
host which has several IP addresses on different interfaces. To turn
- rp_filter off use:
+ rp_filter on use:

- echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
+ echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
or
- echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
+ echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter

If unsure, say N here.

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