From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter mode Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:40:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1235400043.2351.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1235141957.2351.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1235142193.2351.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090222.000656.74298101.davem@davemloft.net> Reply-To: jdb@comx.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from lanfw001a.cxnet.dk ([87.72.215.196]:46102 "EHLO lanfw001a.cxnet.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753142AbZBWOkp (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:40:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090222.000656.74298101.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER Kconfig describes the rp_filter proc option. Recent changes added a loose mode. Instead of documenting this change too places, refer to the document describing it: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt I'm considering moving the rp_filter description away from the Kconfig file into ip-sysctl.txt. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer --- net/ipv4/Kconfig | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig index c7a8148..b2cf91e 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig @@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter Note that some distributions enable it in startup scripts. + For details about rp_filter strict and loose mode read + . If unsure, say N here.