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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
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Subject: [patch 47/54] IPV4: Correct rp_filter help text.
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-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

As mentioned in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5015
The helptext implies that this is on by default.
This may be true on some distros (Fedora/RHEL have it enabled
in /etc/sysctl.conf), but the kernel defaults to it off.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 net/ipv4/Kconfig |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.21.4.orig/net/ipv4/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6.21.4/net/ipv4/Kconfig
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
 	  asymmetric routing (packets from you to a host take a different path
 	  than packets from that host to you) or if you operate a non-routing
 	  host which has several IP addresses on different interfaces. To turn
-	  rp_filter off use:
+	  rp_filter on use:
 
-	  echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
+	  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
 	  or
-	  echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
+	  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
 
 	  If unsure, say N here.
 

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