From 1c06bbbcbc55b2404cdece020411f06b28b4b2b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering 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 @@ /dev/null in /etc/sysctl.d/ bearing the same filename. + + The settings configured with + sysctl.d 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 + net.ipv4.conf.*, + net.ipv6.conf.*, + net.ipv4.neigh.* and net.ipv6.neigh.*)