ip: update the description of rp_filter in ip-sysctl.txt

[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 fbe427a6580cc5996a3352c4115327db371eaecc..5dcc06721bba158f3cbe95b0105668104eedec7b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -738,8 +738,8 @@ rp_filter - INTEGER
        to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
        or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
 
-       conf/all/rp_filter must also be set to non-zero to do source validation
-       on the interface
+       The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
+       when doing source validation on the {interface}.
 
        Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
        in startup scripts.