ipv4 05/05: add sysctl to accept packets with local source addresses

[net-next-2.6.git] / Documentation / networking / ip-sysctl.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 989f5538b8ddf668f70690474767bb851cf4341e..006b39dec87d66f88edc62f9547482f554a6519e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -731,6 +731,12 @@ accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
        default TRUE (router)
                FALSE (host)
 
+accept_local - BOOLEAN
+       Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
+       suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
+       local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
+       default FALSE
+
 rp_filter - INTEGER
        0 - No source validation.
        1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path