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Documentation: networking: ip-sysctl: Document src_valid_mark sysctl

Provide documentation for src_valid_mark sysctl, which was added
in commit 28f6aeea3f12 ("net: restore ip source validation").

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
··· 1446 1446 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it 1447 1447 in startup scripts. 1448 1448 1449 + src_valid_mark - BOOLEAN 1450 + - 0 - The fwmark of the packet is not included in reverse path 1451 + route lookup. This allows for asymmetric routing configurations 1452 + utilizing the fwmark in only one direction, e.g., transparent 1453 + proxying. 1454 + 1455 + - 1 - The fwmark of the packet is included in reverse path route 1456 + lookup. This permits rp_filter to function when the fwmark is 1457 + used for routing traffic in both directions. 1458 + 1459 + This setting also affects the utilization of fmwark when 1460 + performing source address selection for ICMP replies, or 1461 + determining addresses stored for the IPOPT_TS_TSANDADDR and 1462 + IPOPT_RR IP options. 1463 + 1464 + The max value from conf/{all,interface}/src_valid_mark is used. 1465 + 1466 + Default value is 0. 1467 + 1449 1468 arp_filter - BOOLEAN 1450 1469 - 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same 1451 1470 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered