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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-02-23 16:43:19 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-02-23 16:43:19 +0100
commit8f03fd08911016d8bbcad5892b2c07b30a4c2306 (patch)
treef729072b2cbaad09d4cd58de144dd7c495c15634
parent06b44be71db4033db8c855491a95f3cf0e7e4595 (diff)
man: document that per-interface sysctl variables are applied as network interfaces show up
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062955
-rw-r--r--man/sysctl.d.xml10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
index 5544283d49..00a857b11a 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>
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