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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index 14700ea77e75..bb620f554598 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -2543,8 +2543,8 @@ conf/all/disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces. - IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used - to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not. + IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; the ``force_forwarding`` flag must + be used to control which interfaces may forward packets. This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details. @@ -2561,6 +2561,10 @@ proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN Default: 0 (disabled) +force_forwarding - BOOLEAN + Enable forwarding on this interface only -- regardless of the setting on + ``conf/all/forwarding``. When setting ``conf.all.forwarding`` to 0, + the ``force_forwarding`` flag will be reset on all interfaces. fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not |