summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
index dd2b12a32b73..fa544e9037b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
@@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
- This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
+ This is the behaviour many network administrators will expect from
a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
much easier.
@@ -1807,12 +1807,24 @@ seg6_flowlabel - INTEGER
``conf/default/*``:
Change the interface-specific default settings.
+ These settings would be used during creating new interfaces.
+
``conf/all/*``:
Change all the interface-specific settings.
[XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
+conf/all/disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
+ Changing this value is same as changing ``conf/default/disable_ipv6``
+ setting and also all per-interface ``disable_ipv6`` settings to the same
+ value.
+
+ Reading this value does not have any particular meaning. It does not say
+ whether IPv6 support is enabled or disabled. Returned value can be 1
+ also in the case when some interface has ``disable_ipv6`` set to 0 and
+ has configured IPv6 addresses.
+
conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.