First fix a typo in Stephens patch ;-) Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 71041c2..e0b8c2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -711,8 +711,8 @@ rp_filter - INTEGER the packet check will fail. Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode - to prevent IP spoofin from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing - or other complicated routing,t hen loose mode is recommended. + to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing + or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended. conf/all/rp_filter must also be set to non-zero to do source validation on the interface -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html