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authorIan Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>2010-05-25 20:09:41 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-05-31 03:24:55 -0400
commit3f8dc2362fd43a0adee2f6f05bf1ac4d619675b6 (patch)
tree022df59647f36bf13f054dd11f5e55a36a8ad9e7 /Documentation/networking
parent9bfca3c6e5965a01b7c6d8e2f2ea30799c9d43bc (diff)
arp_notify: document that a gratuitous ARP request is sent when this option is enabled
This option causes a gratuitous ARP request, not a reply as the documentation currently suggests. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt2
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index d0536b5a4e0..f350c69b2bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ arp_ignore - INTEGER
903arp_notify - BOOLEAN 903arp_notify - BOOLEAN
904 Define mode for notification of address and device changes. 904 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
905 0 - (default): do nothing 905 0 - (default): do nothing
906 1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up 906 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
907 or hardware address changes. 907 or hardware address changes.
908 908
909arp_accept - BOOLEAN 909arp_accept - BOOLEAN