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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index fbe427a6580..5dcc06721bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -738,8 +738,8 @@ rp_filter - INTEGER
to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
- conf/all/rp_filter must also be set to non-zero to do source validation
- on the interface
+ The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
+ when doing source validation on the {interface}.
Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
in startup scripts.