1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index f98ca633b528..3458d6343e01 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -420,10 +420,10 @@ tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
         for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
 
 tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
-        Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES
+        Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
         Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
         overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
-        Default: FALSE
+        Default: 1
 
         Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
         It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand