Make IP 'forwarding' doc more precise

It wasn't clear if the 'forwarding' setting needs to be enabled on the
interface that packets are received from, or on the interface that
packets are forwarded to, or both.

In fact (according to my code reading) the setting is relevant on the
interface that packets are received from, so this change updates the doc
to say that.

Signed-off-by: Neil Jerram <neil@tigera.io>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index fc73eeb7b3b8b119083a03a42e0046a564ea2f0e..ab02304613771b6f6e120da96fb677c293d032d2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -1006,7 +1006,8 @@ accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
                FALSE (router)
 
 forwarding - BOOLEAN
-       Enable IP forwarding on this interface.
+       Enable IP forwarding on this interface.  This controls whether packets
+       received _on_ this interface can be forwarded.
 
 mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
        Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE