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diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
index 155427cec..00a857b11 100644
--- a/man/sysctl.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml
@@ -89,10 +89,10 @@
administrator, who may use this logic to override the
configuration files installed by vendor packages. All
configuration files are sorted by their filename in
- alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
- directories they reside. If multiple files specify the
+ lexicographic order, regardless of which of the
+ directories they reside in. If multiple files specify the
same variable name, the entry in the file with the
- alphabetically latest name will be applied. It is
+ lexicographically latest name will be applied. It is
recommended to prefix all filenames with a two-digit
number and a dash, to simplify the ordering of the
files.
@@ -103,6 +103,16 @@
/dev/null in
/etc/sysctl.d/ bearing the
same filename.
+
+ The settings configured with
+ sysctl.d files will be applied
+ early on boot. The network interface-specific options
+ will also be applied individually for each network
+ interface as it shows up in the system. (More
+ specifically, that is
+ net.ipv4.conf.*,
+ net.ipv6.conf.*,
+ net.ipv4.neigh.* and net.ipv6.neigh.*)