-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Dave Jones As mentioned in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5015 The helptext implies that this is on by default. This may be true on some distros (Fedora/RHEL have it enabled in /etc/sysctl.conf), but the kernel defaults to it off. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/ipv4/Kconfig | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.21.4.orig/net/ipv4/Kconfig +++ linux-2.6.21.4/net/ipv4/Kconfig @@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER asymmetric routing (packets from you to a host take a different path than packets from that host to you) or if you operate a non-routing host which has several IP addresses on different interfaces. To turn - rp_filter off use: + rp_filter on use: - echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf//rp_filter + echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf//rp_filter or - echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter + echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter If unsure, say N here. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/