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authorIan Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>2010-05-26 00:09:41 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-05-31 00:24:55 -0700
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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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt2
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