From 1c06bbbcbc55b2404cdece020411f06b28b4b2b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>

Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 16:43:19 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] man: document that per-interface sysctl variables are applied

 as network interfaces show up

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062955

(cherry-picked from 8f03fd08911016d8bbcad5892b2c07b30a4c2306)

Resolves: #1147524

---

 man/sysctl.d.xml | 10 ++++++++++

 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml

index 5544283..00a857b 100644

--- a/man/sysctl.d.xml

+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml

@@ -103,6 +103,16 @@

                 <filename>/dev/null</filename> in

                 <filename>/etc/sysctl.d/</filename> bearing the

                 same filename.</para>

+

+                <para>The settings configured with

+                <filename>sysctl.d</filename> files will be applied

+                early on boot. The network interface-specific options

+                will also be applied individually for each network

+                interface as it shows up in the system. (More

+                specifically, that is

+                <filename>net.ipv4.conf.*</filename>,

+                <filename>net.ipv6.conf.*</filename>,

+                <filename>net.ipv4.neigh.*</filename> and <filename>net.ipv6.neigh.*</filename>)</para>

         </refsect1>

         <refsect1>