Commit 3f8dc236 authored May 26, 2010 by Ian Campbell Committed by David S. Miller May 31, 2010

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>

parent 9bfca3c6

Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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