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authorDave Jones2007-05-17 15:02:21 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller2007-05-17 15:02:21 -0700
commitd739437207064cdcea8f9c81442284106cbcb67f (patch)
tree82a578cfcb27464b4cdcdf83033deca90a324ed8 /net
parent2ff011efa4cc591ed563241bae3d60bc0eaac210 (diff)
[IPV4]: Correct rp_filter help text.
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/Kconfig6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig
index 719c1040bd0a..010fbb2d45e9 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ b/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.