Reformatted entries so they are now sorted alphabetical within a
/proc/sys/net/ sub-directory.
Synced with 2.6.17-rc6, added markers for new entries which are missing
a description or new descriptions which need to be checked.
Added some missing descriptions, also added descriptions suggested by
Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>.
Updated some existing descriptions.
Use consistant formatting and text wrapping, and updated default values
to match code.
Signed-off-by: Robert Fitzsimons <[email protected]>
---
Hello Diego
I was working on updating ip-sysctl.txt as a kernel-janitors project as
suggested by Stephen.
Here is my work so far.
Robert
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 1565 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 files changed, 907 insertions(+), 658 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index f12007b..94e6916 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -1,667 +1,822 @@
+/proc/sys/net/core/* Variables:
+
+dev_weight - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 64
+
+divert_version - STRING
+ TODO Check description.
+ String returned by DIVCMD_GETVERSION ioctl().
+ Default: 0.46
+
+message_burst - INTEGER
+ TODO Check description.
+ Allow a burst of message_burst network warning messages before the
+ rate limiting starts. Also see message_cost.
+ Default: 10
+
+message_cost - INTEGER
+ TODO Check description.
+ Rate limit the number of network warning messages to one every
+ message_cost seconds. Also see message_burst.
+ Default: 5
+
+netdev_budget - INTEGER
+ TODO Check description.
+ Maximum number of packets processed per device per softirq. Used to
+ stop a device from overloading the system under massive packet load.
+ Default: 300
+
+netdev_max_backlog - INTEGER
+ TODO Check description.
+ Limit on the outstanding receive packets queued per cpu. Applies to
+ non-NAPI devices only.
+ Default: 1000
+
+optmem_max - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+
+rmem_default - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+
+rmem_max - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+
+somaxconn - INTEGER
+ Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
+ See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning for TCP sockets.
+ Default: 128
+
+wmem_default - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+
+wmem_max - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+
+xfrm_aevent_etime - u32
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 10
+
+xfrm_aevent_rseqth - u32
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 2
+
+
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables:
-ip_forward - BOOLEAN
- 0 - disabled (default)
- not 0 - enabled
+icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
+ If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO requests
+ sent to it.
+ Default: 0
- Forward Packets between interfaces.
+icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
+ If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
+ TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
+ Default: 1
- This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
- parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
- for routers)
+icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
+ If zero, ICMP error messages are sent with the primary address of
+ the exiting interface.
-ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
- default 64
+ If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
+ the interface that received the packet that caused the ICMP error.
+ This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
+ a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
+ much easier.
-ip_no_pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN
- Disable Path MTU Discovery.
- default FALSE
+ Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
+ then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
+ has one will be used regardless of this setting.
+ Default: 0
-min_pmtu - INTEGER
- default 562 - minimum discovered Path MTU
+icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
+ Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
+ frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
+ If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings,
+ which will avoid log file clutter.
+ Default: 1
-mtu_expires - INTEGER
- Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
+icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
+ Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
+ icmp_ratemask to specific targets.
+ 0 to disable any limiting, otherwise the maximal rate in jiffies(1)
+ Default: jiffies in one second
-min_adv_mss - INTEGER
- The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
- never be lower than this setting.
+icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
+ Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
-IP Fragmentation:
+ Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
+ 0 Echo Reply
+ 3 Destination Unreachable *
+ 4 Source Quench *
+ 5 Redirect
+ 8 Echo Request
+ B Time Exceeded *
+ C Parameter Problem *
+ D Timestamp Request
+ E Timestamp Reply
+ F Info Request
+ G Info Reply
+ H Address Mask Request
+ I Address Mask Reply
+ * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
-ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER
- Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When
- ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
- the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh
- is reached.
-
-ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER
- See ipfrag_high_thresh
+ Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
+ Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168)
-ipfrag_time - INTEGER
- Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
+igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
+ Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
+ Default: 20
-ipfrag_secret_interval - INTEGER
- Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
- for the hash secret) for IP fragments.
- Default: 600
+igmp_max_msf - INTEGER
+ TODO Check description.
+ Limit on the number of multicast source filters.
+ Default: 10
-ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
- ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
- maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
- common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
- not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
- IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
- probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
- have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
- is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
- ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
- address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
- address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
- lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
- started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
+inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER
+ Maximum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval
+ is in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool.
+ Default: 120 sec
- Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
- result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
- reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
- performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
- likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
- from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
- Default: 64
+inet_peer_gc_mintime - INTEGER
+ Minimum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval
+ is in effect under high memory pressure on the pool.
+ Default: 10 sec
-INET peer storage:
+inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
+ Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
+ this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
+ when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
+ Default: 600 sec
+
+inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
+ Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
+ time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
+ guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
+ Default: 120 sec
inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
- The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold
+ The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold
entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines
entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
+ Default: dependent on system memory
-inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
- Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
- time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
- guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ip_autoconfig - ????
+ TODO Add description.
-inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
- Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
- this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
- when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
+ Default: 64
-inet_peer_gc_mintime - INTEGER
- Minimum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval is
- in effect under high memory pressure on the pool.
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
+ If non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses. If set to a
+ non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log message will be printed
+ when dynamic address rewriting occurs.
+ Default: 0
-inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER
- Minimum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval is
- in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool.
- Measured in jiffies(1).
+ip_forward - BOOLEAN
+ If non-zero, forward packets between interfaces. This variable is
+ special, its change resets all configuration parameters to their
+ default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812 for routers).
+ Default: 0
-TCP variables:
+ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER
+ Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When
+ ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
+ the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh is
+ reached.
+ Default: 256k
+
+ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER
+ See ipfrag_high_thresh.
+ Default: 192k
+
+ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
+ ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
+ maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
+ common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is not
+ unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source IP
+ address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
+ probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that
+ queue have been lost.
+
+ When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check is done on
+ fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
+ ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular
+ IP address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that
+ source address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the
+ queue are lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a
+ new one started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this
+ check.
+
+ Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
+ result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
+ reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
+ performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
+ likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
+ from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
+ Default: 64
+
+ipfrag_secret_interval - INTEGER
+ Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
+ for the hash secret) for IP fragments.
+ Default: 600
+
+ipfrag_time - INTEGER
+ Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
+ Default: 30
+
+ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
+ Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to choose
+ the local port. The first number is the first, the second the last
+ local port number.
+
+ This number defines number of active connections, which this system
+ can issue simultaneously to systems not supporting TCP extensions
+ (timestamps). With tcp_tw_recycle enabled (i.e. by default) range
+ 1024-4999 is enough to issue up to 2000 connections per second to
+ systems supporting timestamps.
+ Default: dependent on system memory
+ > 128Mb 32768-61000
+ < 128Mb 1024-4999 or even less.
+
+ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
+ If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses, which
+ can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
+ Default: 0
+
+ip_no_pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN
+ Disable Path MTU Discovery.
+ Default: 0
tcp_abc - INTEGER
- Controls Appropriate Byte Count defined in RFC3465. If set to
- 0 then does congestion avoid once per ack. 1 is conservative
- value, and 2 is more agressive.
+ Controls Appropriate Byte Count defined in RFC3465. If set to 0
+ then does congestion avoid once per ACK. 1 is conservative value,
+ and 2 is more aggressive.
+ Default: 1
-tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
- Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
- will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
- is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
+tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
+ If listening service is too slow to accept new connections, reset
+ them. It means that if overflow occurred due to a burst, connection
+ will recover. Enable this option _only_ if you are really sure that
+ listening daemon cannot be tuned to accept connections faster.
+ Enabling this option can harm clients of your server.
+ Default: 0
-tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
- Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
- be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
- is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
+tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
+ Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
+ (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
+ if it is <= 0.
+ Default: 2
-tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
- How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
- Default: 2hours.
+tcp_app_win - INTEGER
+ Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
+ buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
+ Default: 31
-tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
- How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
- connection is broken. Default value: 9.
+tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
+ TODO Check description.
+ Lower bound for TCP path MTU discovery probing.
+ Default: 512
-tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
- How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
- tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
- after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
- will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
+tcp_congestion_control - STRING
+ Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new connections.
+ The algorithm "reno" is always available, but additional choices may
+ be available based on kernel configuration.
-tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
- How many times to retry before deciding that something is wrong
- and it is necessary to report this suspicion to network layer.
- Minimal RFC value is 3, it is default, which corresponds
- to ~3sec-8min depending on RTO.
+tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
+ Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
+ Default: 1
-tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
- How may times to retry before killing alive TCP connection.
- RFC1122 says that the limit should be longer than 100 sec.
- It is too small number. Default value 15 corresponds to ~13-30min
- depending on RTO.
+tcp_ecn - BOOLEAN
+ Enable Explicit Congestion Notification in TCP.
+ Default: 0
-tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
- How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed
- by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to ~50sec-16min
- depending on RTO. If you machine is loaded WEB server,
- you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
- may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
+tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
+ Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission. The value
+ is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
+ Default: 1
tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
- Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed
- by our side. Peer can be broken and never close its side,
- or even died unexpectedly. Default value is 60sec.
- Usual value used in 2.2 was 180 seconds, you may restore
- it, but remember that if your machine is even underloaded WEB server,
- you risk to overflow memory with kilotons of dead sockets,
- FIN-WAIT-2 sockets are less dangerous than FIN-WAIT-1,
- because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend
- to live longer. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
+ Time in seconds to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed
+ by our side. Peer can be broken and never close its side, or even
+ died unexpectedly.
+
+ Usual value used in 2.2 was 180 seconds, you may restore it, but
+ remember that if your machine is even underloaded WEB server, you
+ risk to overflow memory with kilotons of dead sockets, FIN-WAIT-2
+ sockets are less dangerous than FIN-WAIT-1, because they eat maximum
+ 1.5K of memory, but they tend to live longer. See tcp_max_orphans.
+ Default: 60
-tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
- Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
- If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
- and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
- simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
- but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
- if network conditions require more than default value.
+tcp_frto - BOOLEAN
+ Enables F-RTO, an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
+ timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments
+ where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
+ rather than intermediate router congestion.
+ Default: 0
-tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN
- Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0.
- It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
- experts.
+tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
+ How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
+ tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
+ after probes started.
+ Default: 75 secs
-tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
- Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
- safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
- It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
- experts.
+tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
+ How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
+ connection is broken.
+ Default: 9
+
+tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
+ How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is
+ enabled.
+ Default: 2 hours
+
+tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
+ If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower latency as
+ opposed to higher throughput. By default, this option is not set
+ meaning that higher throughput is preferred. An example of an
+ application where this default should be changed would be a Beowulf
+ compute cluster.
+ Default: 0
tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
- held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
- reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
- only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
- or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
- (probably, after increasing installed memory),
- if network conditions require more than default value,
- and tune network services to linger and kill such states
- more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
- up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
+ held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
+ reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists only to
+ prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this or lower the
+ limit artificially, but rather increase it (probably, after
+ increasing installed memory), if network conditions require more
+ than default value, and tune network services to linger and kill
+ such states more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan
+ eats up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
-tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
- If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
- reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
- occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
- option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
- cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
- option can harm clients of your server.
+tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
+ Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are still
+ did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client. If server
+ suffers of overload, try to increase this number.
+ Default: dependent on system memory
+ > 128Mb 1024
+ < 128Mb 128
-tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
- Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES
- Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
- overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'syn flood attack'
- Default: FALSE
+tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
+ Maximal number of time-wait sockets held by system simultaneously.
+ If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
+ and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent simple
+ DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially, but rather
+ increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory), if
+ network conditions require more than default value.
- Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
- It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
- against legal connection rate. If you see synflood warnings
- in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
- because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
- another parameters until this warning disappear.
- See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
-
- syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
- to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
- of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
- but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
- synflood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
- is seriously misconfigured.
+tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: low, pressure, max
+ low: Below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its memory
+ appetite.
-tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
- Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urg pointer field.
- Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
- Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
- Default: FALSE
-
-tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
- Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are
- still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client.
- Default value is 1024 for systems with more than 128Mb of memory,
- and 128 for low memory machines. If server suffers of overload,
- try to increase this number.
+ pressure: When amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
+ of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
+ pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls under
+ "low".
-tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
- Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
+ max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
-tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN
- Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
+ See tcp_rmem, tcp_wmem.
+ Default: dependent on system memory
-tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
- Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
+tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
+ TODO Check description.
+ If set TCP automatically adjusts the size of the socket receive
+ window based on the amount of space used in the receive queue.
+ Default: 1
-tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
- Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
- The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
+tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
+ TODO Check description.
+ If non-zero, then TCP attempts to discover routers that do not
+ correctly return ICMP fragmentation needed when receiving oversize
+ packets "black-holes". If the value is greater than one, don't use
+ the cached pmtu value before attempting to probe.
+ Default: 0
-tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
- Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
+tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
+ TODO Check description.
+ Normally, TCP will remember some characteristics about the last
+ connection in the flow cache. If tcp_no_metrics_save is set, then
+ it doesn't. Useful for benchmarks or other tests.
+ Default: 0
-tcp_ecn - BOOLEAN
- Enable Explicit Congestion Notification in TCP.
+tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
+ How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed by our
+ side. If you machine is a loaded WEB server, you should think about
+ lowering this value, such sockets may consume significant resources.
+ See tcp_max_orphans.
+ Default: 0
tcp_reordering - INTEGER
Maximal reordering of packets in a TCP stream.
- Default: 3
+ Default: 3
tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
- Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
- On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
- certain TCP stacks.
+ Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers. On retransmit
+ try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in certain TCP
+ stacks.
+ Default: 1
-tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
- min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP socket.
- Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
- Default: 4K
+tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
+ How many times to retry before deciding that something is wrong and
+ it is necessary to report this suspicion to network layer. Minimal
+ RFC value is 3.
+ Default: 3
- default: Amount of memory allowed for send buffers for TCP socket
- by default. This value overrides net.core.wmem_default used
- by other protocols, it is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
- Default: 16K
+tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
+ How may times to retry before killing alive TCP connection. RFC1122
+ says that the limit should be longer than 100 sec. It is too small
+ number.
+ Default: 15
- max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically selected
- send buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
- net.core.wmem_max, "static" selection via SO_SNDBUF does not use this.
- Default: 128K
+tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
+ If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset, we
+ are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT assassination.
+ Default: 0
tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
- min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
- It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
- pressure.
- Default: 8K
-
- default: default size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
- This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
- Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
+ min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets. It is
+ guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory pressure.
+
+ default: Default size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets. This
+ value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols. The
+ default value of 87380 bytes, results in window of 65535 with
default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
- less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
+ less for default tcp_app_win.
- max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
- selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
- net.core.rmem_max, "static" selection via SO_RCVBUF does not use this.
- Default: 87380*2 bytes.
+ max: Maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
+ selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not
+ override net.core.rmem_max, "static" selection via SO_RCVBUF does
+ not use this.
+ See tcp_mem, tcp_wmem.
+ Default: 1 page, 16k, dependent on tcp_mem default
-tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
- low: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
- memory appetite.
+tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
+ Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
+ Default: 1
- pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
- of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
- pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
- under "low".
+tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
+ Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urg pointer
+ field. Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn
+ this on Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
+ Default: 0
- high: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
+tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
+ Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will be
+ retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255.
+ Default: 5
- Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
- memory.
+tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
+ Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES Send
+ out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket overflows.
+ This is to prevent against the common 'syn flood attack'
-tcp_app_win - INTEGER
- Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
- buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
- Default: 31
+ Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
+ It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand against
+ legal connection rate. If you see synflood warnings in your logs,
+ but investigation shows that they occur because of overload with
+ legal connections, you should tune another parameters until this
+ warning disappear. See tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries,
+ tcp_abort_on_overflow.
+
+ syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow to use TCP
+ extensions, can result in serious degradation of some services (f.e.
+ SMTP relaying), visible not by you, but your clients and relays,
+ contacting you. While you see synflood warnings in logs not being
+ really flooded, your server is seriously misconfigured.
+ Default: 0
-tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
- Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
- (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
- if it is <= 0.
- Default: 2
+tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
+ Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
+ will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255.
+ Default: 5
-tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
- If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
- we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
- assassination.
+tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN
+ Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
+ Default: 1
+
+tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
+ This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
+ can be consumed by a single TSO frame. The setting of this
+ parameter is a choice between burstiness and building larger TSO
+ frames.
+ Default: 3
+
+tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN
+ Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. The default value should
+ not be changed without advice/request of technical experts.
Default: 0
-tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
- If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower
- latency as opposed to higher throughput. By default, this
- option is not set meaning that higher throughput is preferred.
- An example of an application where this default should be
- changed would be a Beowulf compute cluster.
+tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
+ Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is safe
+ from protocol viewpoint. The default value should not be changed
+ without advice/request of technical experts.
Default: 0
-tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
- This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
- can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
- The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
- building larger TSO frames.
- Default: 3
+tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
+ Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
+ Default: 1
-tcp_frto - BOOLEAN
- Enables F-RTO, an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
- timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments
- where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
- rather than intermediate router congestion.
+tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
+ min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP socket.
+ Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
-tcp_congestion_control - STRING
- Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
- connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
- additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
+ default: Amount of memory allowed for send buffers for TCP socket by
+ default. This value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other
+ protocols, it is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
-somaxconn - INTEGER
- Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
- Defaults to 128. See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
- for TCP sockets.
+ max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically selected
+ send buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
+ net.core.wmem_max, "static" selection via SO_SNDBUF does not use
+ this.
+ See tcp_mem, tcp_rmem.
+ Default: 1 page, 16k, dependent on tcp_mem default
tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
- remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
- If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
- not receive a window scaling option from them.
+ remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity. If
+ unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do not receive
+ a window scaling option from them.
Default: 0
-IP Variables:
-ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
- Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
- choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
- second the last local port number. Default value depends on
- amount of memory available on the system:
- > 128Mb 32768-61000
- < 128Mb 1024-4999 or even less.
- This number defines number of active connections, which this
- system can issue simultaneously to systems not supporting
- TCP extensions (timestamps). With tcp_tw_recycle enabled
- (i.e. by default) range 1024-4999 is enough to issue up to
- 2000 connections per second to systems supporting timestamps.
-
-ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
- If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
- which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
- Default: 0
+/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/* Variables:
-ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
- If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
- If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
- message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
- occurs.
- Default: 0
-
-icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
- If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
- requests sent to it.
- Default: 0
+error_burst - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 5
-icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
- If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
- TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
+error_cost - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
Default: 1
-icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
- Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
- icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
- 0 to disable any limiting, otherwise the maximal rate in jiffies(1)
- Default: 100
-
-icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
- Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
- Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
- Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168)
-
- Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
- 0 Echo Reply
- 3 Destination Unreachable *
- 4 Source Quench *
- 5 Redirect
- 8 Echo Request
- B Time Exceeded *
- C Parameter Problem *
- D Timestamp Request
- E Timestamp Reply
- F Info Request
- G Info Reply
- H Address Mask Request
- I Address Mask Reply
+flush - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 0
- * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
+gc_elasticity - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 8
-icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
- Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
- frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
- If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
- will avoid log file clutter.
- Default: FALSE
+gc_interval - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 60
-icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
+gc_min_interval - INTEGER
+ TODO Check description.
+ Deprecated. Use gc_min_interval_ms.
- If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
- the exiting interface.
-
- If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
- the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
- This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
- a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
- much easier.
+gc_min_interval_ms - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 500
- Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
- then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
- has one will be used regarldess of this setting.
+gc_thresh - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
- Default: 0
+gc_timeout - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 300
-igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
- Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
- Default: 20
+max_delay - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 10
-conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where "interface" is
- the name of your network interface)
-conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
+max_size - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+min_adv_mss - INTEGER
+ The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
+ never be lower than this setting.
+ Default: 256
-log_martians - BOOLEAN
- Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
- log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
+min_delay - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 2
-accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
- Accept ICMP redirect messages.
- accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
- - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case forwarding
- for the interface is enabled
- or
- - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the case
- forwarding for the interface is disabled
- accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
- default TRUE (host)
- FALSE (router)
+min_pmtu - INTEGER
+ Minimum discovered Path MTU
+ Default: 552
-forwarding - BOOLEAN
- Enable IP forwarding on this interface.
+mtu_expires - INTEGER
+ Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
+ Default: 600
-mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
- Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
- and a multicast routing daemon is required.
- conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast routing
- for the interface
+redirect_load - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 5
-medium_id - INTEGER
- Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
- are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
- the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
- The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
- to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
-
- Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
- the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
- two devices attached to different media.
+redirect_number - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 9
-proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
- Do proxy arp.
- proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
+redirect_silence - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
-shared_media - BOOLEAN
- Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
- Overrides ip_secure_redirects.
- shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
- default TRUE
+secret_interval - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 600
-secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
- Accept ICMP redirect messages only for gateways,
- listed in default gateway list.
- secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
- default TRUE
-send_redirects - BOOLEAN
- Send redirects, if router.
- send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
- Default: TRUE
+/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/*
+/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/*
+/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/*
-bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
- Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
- not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
- BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
- conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
- for the interface
- default FALSE
- Not Implemented Yet.
+accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
+ Accept ICMP redirect messages.
+ accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
+ - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
+ forwarding for the interface is enabled
+ or
+ - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in
+ the case forwarding for the interface is disabled
+ accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise value
+ 1 (host) and 0 (router).
+ Default: 1
accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
- Accept packets with SRR option.
- conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
- with SRR option on the interface
- default TRUE (router)
- FALSE (host)
+ Accept packets with SRR option. conf/all/accept_source_route must
+ also be set to 1 to accept packets with SRR option on the interface
+ value 1 (router) and 0 (host).
+ Default: 1
-rp_filter - BOOLEAN
- 1 - do source validation by reversed path, as specified in RFC1812
- Recommended option for single homed hosts and stub network
- routers. Could cause troubles for complicated (not loop free)
- networks running a slow unreliable protocol (sort of RIP),
- or using static routes.
+arp_accept - BOOLEAN
+ Define behavior when gratuitous ARP replies are received:
+ 0 - drop gratuitous ARP frames
+ 1 - accept gratuitous ARP frames
+ Default: 0
- 0 - No source validation.
+arp_announce - INTEGER
+ Define different restriction levels for announcing the local source
+ IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on interface:
+ 0 - Use any local address, configured on any interface.
+ 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's subnet
+ for this interface. This mode is useful when target hosts
+ reachable via this interface require the source IP address in
+ ARP requests to be part of their logical network configured on
+ the receiving interface. When we generate the request we will
+ check all our subnets that include the target IP and will
+ preserve the source address if it is from such subnet. If there
+ is no such subnet we select source address according to the
+ rules for level 2.
+ 2 - Always use the best local address for this target. In this mode
+ we ignore the source address in the IP packet and try to select
+ local address that we prefer for talks with the target host.
+ Such local address is selected by looking for primary IP
+ addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing interface that
+ include the target IP address. If no suitable local address is
+ found we select the first local address we have on the outgoing
+ interface or on all other interfaces, with the hope we will
+ receive reply for our request and even sometimes no matter the
+ source IP address we announce.
- conf/all/rp_filter must also be set to TRUE to do source validation
- on the interface
+ The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
- Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
- in startup scripts.
+ Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for receiving
+ answer from the resolved target while decreasing the level announces
+ more valid sender's information.
+ Default: 0
arp_filter - BOOLEAN
1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
- subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
- based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
- the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
- based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
- of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
-
- 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
- from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
- sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
- IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
- particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
- balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
+ subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered based
+ on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from the ARP'd
+ IP out that interface (therefore you must use source based
+ routing for this to work). In other words it allows control of
+ which cards (usually 1) will respond to an ARP request.
+
+ 0 - The kernel can respond to ARP requests with addresses from other
+ interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes sense,
+ because it increases the chance of successful communication. IP
+ addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
+ particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
+ balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
-
-arp_announce - INTEGER
- Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
- source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
- interface:
- 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
- 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
- subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
- hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
- address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
- configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
- request we will check all our subnets that include the
- target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
- such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
- address according to the rules for level 2.
- 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
- In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
- and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
- the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
- for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
- interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
- local address is found we select the first local address
- we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
- with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
- even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
-
- The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
-
- Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
- receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
- the level announces more valid sender's information.
+ conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to 1, it will be disabled
+ otherwise.
+ Default: 0
arp_ignore - INTEGER
- Define different modes for sending replies in response to
- received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
- 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
- on any interface
- 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
- configured on the incoming interface
- 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
- configured on the incoming interface and both with the
- sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
- 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
- only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
+ Define different modes for sending replies in response to received
+ ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
+ 0 - reply for any local target IP address, configured on any
+ interface
+ 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
+ configured on the incoming interface
+ 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
+ configured on the incoming interface and both with the
+ sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this
+ interface
+ 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
+ only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
4-7 - reserved
- 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
+ 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
- The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
- when ARP request is received on the {interface}
-
-arp_accept - BOOLEAN
- Define behavior when gratuitous arp replies are received:
- 0 - drop gratuitous arp frames
- 1 - accept gratuitous arp frames
+ The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used when ARP
+ request is received on the {interface}.
+ Default: 0
-app_solicit - INTEGER
- The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
- via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
- mcast_solicit). Defaults to 0.
+bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
+ Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined not to this host
+ as local ones. It is supposed, that BOOTP relay daemon will catch
+ and forward such packets. conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to
+ 1 to enable BOOTP relay for the interface.
+ Default: 0
+ Not Implemented Yet.
disable_policy - BOOLEAN
Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
+ Default: 0
disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
+ Default: 0
+force_igmp_version - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+forwarding - BOOLEAN
+ Enable IP forwarding on this interface.
+ Default: 0
-tag - INTEGER
- Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
- Default value is 0.
+log_martians - BOOLEAN
+ Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log. log_martians
+ for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
+ conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to 1, it will be disabled
+ otherwise
+ Default: 0
-(1) Jiffie: internal timeunit for the kernel. On the i386 1/100s, on the
-Alpha 1/1024s. See the HZ define in /usr/include/asm/param.h for the exact
-value on your system.
+mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
+ Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with
+ CONFIG_MROUTE and a multicast routing daemon is required.
+ conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to 1 to enable multicast
+ routing for the interface
+ Default: 0
-Alexey Kuznetsov.
[email protected]
+medium_id - INTEGER
+ Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
+ are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when the
+ broadcast packets are received only on one of them. The value 0
+ means that the device is the only interface to its medium, value of
+ -1 means that medium is not known.
+
+ Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior: the
+ proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between two
+ devices attached to different media.
+ Default: 0
+
+promote_secondaries - ????
+ TODO Add description.
+
+proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
+ Do proxy ARP.
+ proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
+ conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to 1, it will be disabled
+ otherwise.
+ Default: 0
+
+rp_filter - BOOLEAN
+ 1 - do source validation by reversed path, as specified in RFC1812
+ Recommended option for single homed hosts and stub network
+ routers. Could cause troubles for complicated (not loop free)
+ networks running a slow unreliable protocol (sort of RIP), or
+ using static routes.
+ 0 - No source validation.
+
+ conf/all/rp_filter must also be set to 1 to do source validation on
+ the interface
+
+ Default: 0. Note that some distributions enable it in startup
+ scripts.
+
+secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
+ Accept ICMP redirect messages only for gateways, listed in default
+ gateway list.
+ secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one
+ of conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to 1, it will be
+ disabled otherwise
+ Default: 1
-Updated by:
-Andi Kleen
[email protected]
-Nicolas Delon
[email protected]
+send_redirects - BOOLEAN
+ Send redirects, if router.
+ send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
+ conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to 1, it will be disabled
+ otherwise
+ Default: 1
+shared_media - BOOLEAN
+ Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
+ Overrides ip_secure_redirects.
+ shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
+ conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to 1, it will be disabled
+ otherwise
+ Default: 1
+tag - INTEGER
+ Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
+ Default: 0
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
@@ -670,155 +825,208 @@ IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp
apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
bindv6only - BOOLEAN
- Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
- which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
- only.
- TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
- FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
-
- Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC2553bis)
-
-IPv6 Fragmentation:
+ Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option, which restricts use of
+ the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication only.
+ 1: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
+ 0: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
+ Default: 0 (as specified in RFC2553bis)
ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
- Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
+ Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
- the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
- is reached.
-
-ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
- See ip6frag_high_thresh
+ the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh is
+ reached.
+ Default: 256k
-ip6frag_time - INTEGER
- Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
+ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
+ See ip6frag_high_thresh
+ Default: 192k
ip6frag_secret_interval - INTEGER
- Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
+ Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
for the hash secret) for IPv6 fragments.
Default: 600
-conf/default/*:
- Change the interface-specific default settings.
+ip6frag_time - INTEGER
+ Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
+ Default: 60
+
+mld_max_msf - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
-conf/all/*:
- Change all the interface-specific settings.
+/proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/* Variables:
- [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
+ratelimit - INTEGER
+ Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
+ 0 to disable any limiting, otherwise the maximal rate in jiffies(1).
+ Default: jiffies in one second
-conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
- Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
- IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
- to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
+/proc/sys/net/ipv6/route/* Variables:
- This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
- 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details.
+flush - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ See ipv4/route/flush description.
- This referred to as global forwarding.
+gc_elasticity - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ See ipv4/route/gc_elasticity description.
-conf/interface/*:
- Change special settings per interface.
+gc_interval - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ See ipv4/route/gc_interval description.
- The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
- depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
+gc_min_interval - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ See ipv4/route/gc_min_interval description.
+
+gc_min_interval_ms - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ See ipv4/route/gc_min_interval_ms description.
+
+gc_thresh - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ See ipv4/route/gc_thresh description.
+
+gc_timeout - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ See ipv4/route/gc_timeout description.
+
+max_size - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ See ipv4/route/max_size description.
+
+min_adv_mss - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ See ipv4/route/min_adv_mss description.
+
+mtu_expires - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ See ipv4/route/mtu_expires description.
+
+
+/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/*
+/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/*
+/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/*
accept_ra - BOOLEAN
Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
-
- Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
- disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
+
+ Default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
+ disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
- Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
+ Default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
+ disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
Learn Prefix Inforamtion in Router Advertisement.
- Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
+ Default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
+ disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
- Route Information w/ prefix larger than or equal to this
- variable shall be ignored.
+ Route Information with prefix larger than or equal to this variable
+ shall be ignored.
- Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
- -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
+ Default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
+ -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
Accept Router Preference in RA.
- Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
+ Default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
+ disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
Accept Redirects.
- Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
- disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
+ Default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
+ disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
autoconf - BOOLEAN
- Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
+ Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
Advertisements.
- Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
- disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
+ Default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
+ disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
dad_transmits - INTEGER
The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
Default: 1
-
+
+force_mld_version - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 0
+
forwarding - BOOLEAN
- Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
+ Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
- Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
- interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
+ Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all interfaces;
+ mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
- FALSE:
+ FALSE (0):
By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
2. Router Solicitations are being sent when necessary.
- 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
- Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
- 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
+ 3. If accept_ra is 1 (default), accept Router Advertisements (and
+ do autoconfiguration).
+ 4. If accept_redirects is 1 (default), accept Redirects.
- TRUE:
+ TRUE (1):
- If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
- This means exactly the reverse from the above:
+ If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed. This
+ means exactly the reverse from the above:
1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
2. Router Solicitations are not sent.
3. Router Advertisements are ignored.
4. Redirects are ignored.
- Default: FALSE if global forwarding is disabled (default),
- otherwise TRUE.
+ Default: 0 if global forwarding is disabled (default),
+ otherwise 1.
hop_limit - INTEGER
Default Hop Limit to set.
Default: 64
+max_addresses - INTEGER
+ Number of maximum addresses per interface. 0 disables limitation.
+ It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would be
+ too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of
+ autoconfigured addresses.
+ Default: 16
+
+max_desync_factor - INTEGER
+ Maximum value in seconds for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
+ that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each other and
+ generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
+ Default: 600
+
mtu - INTEGER
Default Maximum Transfer Unit
Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
+regen_max_retry - INTEGER
+ Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate valid
+ temporary addresses.
+ Default: 5
+
router_probe_interval - INTEGER
Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
in RFC4191.
-
Default: 60
router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
- Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
- before sending Router Solicitations.
+ Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up before
+ sending Router Solicitations.
Default: 1
router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
@@ -826,57 +1034,102 @@ router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
Default: 4
router_solicitations - INTEGER
- Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
- routers are present.
+ Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no routers are
+ present.
Default: 3
+temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
+ Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
+ Default: 86400 (1 day)
+
+temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
+ Valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
+ Default: 604800 (7 days)
+
use_tempaddr - INTEGER
Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
<= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
- == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
- addresses over temporary addresses.
- > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
- addresses over public addresses.
- Default: 0 (for most devices)
- -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
+ == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public addresses over
+ temporary addresses.
+ > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary addresses
+ over public addresses.
+ Values 0 for most devices and -1 for point-to-point devices and
+ loopback devices.
+ Default: 0
-temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
- valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
- Default: 604800 (7 days)
-temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
- Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
- Default: 86400 (1 day)
+/proc/sys/net/unix/* Variables:
-max_desync_factor - INTEGER
- Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
- that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
- other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
- value is in seconds.
- Default: 600
-
-regen_max_retry - INTEGER
- Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
- valid temporary addresses.
- Default: 5
+max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 10
-max_addresses - INTEGER
- Number of maximum addresses per interface. 0 disables limitation.
- It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would
- be too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of
- autoconfigured addresses.
- Default: 16
-icmp/*:
-ratelimit - INTEGER
- Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
- 0 to disable any limiting, otherwise the maximal rate in jiffies(1)
- Default: 100
+/proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/neigh/*/*
+/proc/sys/net/ipv[46]/neigh/default/*
+anycast_delay - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
-IPv6 Update by:
-Pekka Savola <[email protected]>
-YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <[email protected]>
+app_solicit - INTEGER
+ The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
+ via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
+ mcast_solicit).
+ Default: 0
+
+base_reachable_time - INTEGER
+ TODO Check description.
+ See base_reachable_time_ms.
+
+base_reachable_time_ms - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 30000
+
+delay_first_probe_time - ????
+ TODO Add description.
+
+gc_interval - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 30
+
+gc_stale_time - ????
+ TODO Add description.
+
+gc_thresh1 - ????
+ TODO Add description.
+
+gc_thresh2 - ????
+ TODO Add description.
+
+gc_thresh3 - ????
+ TODO Add description.
+
+locktime - ????
+ TODO Add description.
+
+mcast_solicit - ????
+ TODO Add description.
+
+proxy_delay - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 80
+
+proxy_qlen - INTEGER
+ TODO Add description.
+ Default: 64
+
+retrans_time - ????
+ TODO Check description.
+ See retrans_time_ms.
+
+retrans_time_ms - ????
+ TODO Add description.
+
+ucast_solicit - ????
+ TODO Add description.
+
+unres_qlen - ????
+ TODO Add description.
/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
@@ -886,13 +1139,13 @@ bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
0 : disable this.
Default: 1
-bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
- 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
+bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
+ 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
0 : disable this.
Default: 1
-bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
- 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
+bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
+ 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
0 : disable this.
Default: 1
@@ -902,25 +1155,21 @@ bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
Default: 1
-UNDOCUMENTED:
-
-dev_weight FIXME
-discovery_slots FIXME
-discovery_timeout FIXME
-fast_poll_increase FIXME
-ip6_queue_maxlen FIXME
-lap_keepalive_time FIXME
-lo_cong FIXME
-max_baud_rate FIXME
-max_dgram_qlen FIXME
-max_noreply_time FIXME
-max_tx_data_size FIXME
-max_tx_window FIXME
-min_tx_turn_time FIXME
-mod_cong FIXME
-no_cong FIXME
-no_cong_thresh FIXME
-slot_timeout FIXME
-warn_noreply_time FIXME
-
-$Id: ip-sysctl.txt,v 1.20 2001/12/13 09:00:18 davem Exp $
+(1) Jiffie: internal timeunit for the kernel. On the i386 1/100s, on the
+Alpha 1/1024s. See the HZ define in /usr/include/asm/param.h for the exact
+value on your system.
+
+
+IPv4:
+Alexey Kuznetsov <[email protected]>
+IPv4 Updated by:
+Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
+Nicolas Delon <[email protected]>
+
+IPv6 Updated by:
+Pekka Savola <[email protected]>
+YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <[email protected]>
+
+Reformatted/Updated:
+Robert Fitzsimons <[email protected]>, June 2006 synced with 2.6.17-rc6.
+
--
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