From patchwork Mon Feb 23 14:40:43 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jesper Dangaard Brouer X-Patchwork-Id: 23560 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB688DDE1D for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:40:50 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753889AbZBWOkr (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:40:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753822AbZBWOkp (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:40:45 -0500 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 Received: from comxexch02.comx.local (unknown [172.31.1.117]) by lanfw001a.cxnet.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C086E16373B; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:40:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from 172.31.4.93 ([172.31.4.93]) by comxexch02.comx.local ([172.31.1.117]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:40:43 +0000 Received: from hawk by comxexch02.comx.local; 23 Feb 2009 15:40:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter mode From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Reply-To: jdb@comx.dk To: David Miller Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090222.000656.74298101.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1235141957.2351.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1235142193.2351.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090222.000656.74298101.davem@davemloft.net> Organization: ComX Networks A/S Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:40:43 +0100 Message-Id: <1235400043.2351.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org 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(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html 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.