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>