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authorSébastien Barré <sebastien.barre@uclouvain.be>2014-09-10 18:20:23 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-09-12 16:34:17 -0400
commit72b126a45eaca22fb6a8788e8a89c159f3ae2ac5 (patch)
tree18c0d112a03f15ca934a2b13c6572d98746a5693 /Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
parentb954d83421d51d822c42e5ab7b65069b25ad3005 (diff)
Revert "ipv4: Clarify in docs that accept_local requires rp_filter."
This reverts commit c801e3cc1925 ("ipv4: Clarify in docs that accept_local requires rp_filter."). It is not needed anymore since commit 1dced6a85482 ("ipv4: Restore accept_local behaviour in fib_validate_source()"). Suggested-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Cc: Gregory Detal <gregory.detal@uclouvain.be> Cc: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@redhat.com> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> Signed-off-by: Sébastien Barré <sebastien.barre@uclouvain.be> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
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@@ -952,14 +952,9 @@ accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
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.
-
- rp_filter must be set to a non-zero value in order for
- accept_local to have an effect.
-
+ 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
route_localnet - BOOLEAN