Merge branch 'mdw/backoff'

[tripe] / svc / conntrack.8.in

diff --git a/svc/conntrack.8.in b/svc/conntrack.8.in
index 3e4fc72521c35b05a33d557bfa289d0d294a68e2..3d1a54a4ed65f2df3647c34e2fa346f58d4bbceb 100644 (file)
--- a/svc/conntrack.8.in
+++ b/svc/conntrack.8.in
@@ -101,6 +101,14 @@ connecting the new one.  If no match is found in a particular group,
 then no peers in the group are connected.  Strange and unhelpful things
 will happen if you put the same peer in several different groups.
 .PP
+The tags
+.B down
+and
+.BI down/ anything
+are special and mean that no peer from the group should be active.  This
+is useful for detecting a `home' network, where a VPN is unnecessary
+(or, worse, break routing completely).
+.PP
 The notion of `current IP address' is somewhat vague.  The
 .B conntrack
 service calculates it as the source address that the host would put on