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[net-next-2.6] net: add limits to ip_default_ttl

Message ID 1292272989.2679.48.camel@edumazet-laptop
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Eric Dumazet Dec. 13, 2010, 8:43 p.m. UTC 
Le lundi 13 décembre 2010 à 12:18 -0800, David Miller a écrit :

> Applied, thanks Eric.


I forgot the Documentation changes as well, sorry :(

[PATCH] net: change ip_default_ttl documentation

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)



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David Miller Dec. 13, 2010, 8:51 p.m. UTC | #1 
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:43:09 +0100

> Le lundi 13 décembre 2010 à 12:18 -0800, David Miller a écrit :
> 
>> Applied, thanks Eric.
> 
> 
> I forgot the Documentation changes as well, sorry :(
> 
> [PATCH] net: change ip_default_ttl documentation
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Also applied, thanks.
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 3c5e465..5dfb5f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@  ip_forward - BOOLEAN
 	for routers)
 
 ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
-	default 64
+	Default value of TTL field (Time To Live) for outgoing (but not
+	forwarded) IP packets. Should be between 1 and 255 inclusive.
+	Default: 64 (as recommended by RFC1700)
 
 ip_no_pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN
 	Disable Path MTU Discovery.