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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt3
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index fc73eeb7b3b8..ab0230461377 100644
--- 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