arp_notify: document that a gratuitous ARP request is sent when this option is enabled
authorIan Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Wed, 26 May 2010 00:09:41 +0000 (00:09 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 31 May 2010 07:24:55 +0000 (00:24 -0700)
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>
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

index d0536b5a4e014afc6aa48f5d0c9a2f36ff91969a..f350c69b2bb4f807340416ffe7cf29cc8b02e662 100644 (file)
@@ -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