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| author | Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> | 2010-05-26 02:09:41 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-05-31 09:24:55 +0200 |
| commit | 3f8dc2362fd43a0adee2f6f05bf1ac4d619675b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 022df59647f36bf13f054dd11f5e55a36a8ad9e7 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | caif: cleanup: remove duplicate checks (diff) | |
| download | linux-3f8dc2362fd43a0adee2f6f05bf1ac4d619675b6.tar.xz linux-3f8dc2362fd43a0adee2f6f05bf1ac4d619675b6.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index d0536b5a4e01..f350c69b2bb4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ arp_ignore - INTEGER arp_notify - BOOLEAN Define mode for notification of address and device changes. 0 - (default): do nothing - 1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up + 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up or hardware address changes. arp_accept - BOOLEAN |