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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index 2b329042b38c..b31601405c54 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -1633,12 +1633,15 @@ arp_notify - BOOLEAN or hardware address changes. == ========================================================== -arp_accept - BOOLEAN - Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not - already present in the ARP table: +arp_accept - INTEGER + Define behavior for accepting gratuitous ARP (garp) frames from devices + that are not already present in the ARP table: - 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table - 1 - create new entries in the ARP table + - 2 - create new entries only if the source IP address is in the same + subnet as an address configured on the interface that received the + garp message. Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on. |