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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: add special mode forwarding=2 to send RS while
 configured as router
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:00:19 -0700
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:04:20 -0400
Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org> wrote:

> Similar to accepting router advertisement, the IPv6 stack does not send router
> solicitations if forwarding is enabled.
> 
> This patch enables this behavior to be overruled by setting forwarding to the
> special value 2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
> 

Please add description to Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt