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authorAni Sinha <ani@arista.com>2015-01-07 15:45:56 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-01-12 15:38:43 -0500
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update ip-sysctl.txt documentation (v2)
Update documentation to reflect the fact that
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size is no longer used for ipv4.

Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
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--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
 route/max_size - INTEGER
 	Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel.  Increase
 	this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
+	From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
+	as route cache is no longer used.
 
 neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
 	Minimum number of entries to keep.  Garbage collector will not