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[1/3] arp_notify: document that a gratuitous ARP request is sent when this option is enabled

Message ID 1274868583-26291-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Ian Campbell May 26, 2010, 10:09 a.m. UTC
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
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 Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 8b72c88..bd13884 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@  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