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1/proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables:
2
3ip_forward - BOOLEAN
4 0 - disabled (default)
e18f5feb 5 not 0 - enabled
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6
7 Forward Packets between interfaces.
8
9 This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
10 parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
11 for routers)
12
13ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
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14 Default value of TTL field (Time To Live) for outgoing (but not
15 forwarded) IP packets. Should be between 1 and 255 inclusive.
16 Default: 64 (as recommended by RFC1700)
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17
18ip_no_pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN
19 Disable Path MTU Discovery.
20 default FALSE
21
22min_pmtu - INTEGER
20db93c3 23 default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU
1da177e4 24
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25route/max_size - INTEGER
26 Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase
27 this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
28
29neigh/default/gc_thresh3 - INTEGER
30 Maximum number of neighbor entries allowed. Increase this
31 when using large numbers of interfaces and when communicating
32 with large numbers of directly-connected peers.
33
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34neigh/default/unres_qlen_bytes - INTEGER
35 The maximum number of bytes which may be used by packets
36 queued for each unresolved address by other network layers.
37 (added in linux 3.3)
38
39neigh/default/unres_qlen - INTEGER
40 The maximum number of packets which may be queued for each
41 unresolved address by other network layers.
42 (deprecated in linux 3.3) : use unres_qlen_bytes instead.
43
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44mtu_expires - INTEGER
45 Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
46
47min_adv_mss - INTEGER
48 The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
49 never be lower than this setting.
50
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51rt_cache_rebuild_count - INTEGER
52 The per net-namespace route cache emergency rebuild threshold.
53 Any net-namespace having its route cache rebuilt due to
54 a hash bucket chain being too long more than this many times
55 will have its route caching disabled
56
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57IP Fragmentation:
58
59ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 60 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When
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61 ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
62 the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh
63 is reached.
e18f5feb 64
1da177e4 65ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 66 See ipfrag_high_thresh
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67
68ipfrag_time - INTEGER
e18f5feb 69 Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
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70
71ipfrag_secret_interval - INTEGER
e18f5feb 72 Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
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73 for the hash secret) for IP fragments.
74 Default: 600
75
89cee8b1 76ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
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77 ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
78 maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
79 common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
80 not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
81 IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
82 probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
83 have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
84 is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
85 ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
86 address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
87 address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
88 lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
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89 started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
90
91 Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
92 result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
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93 reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
94 performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
95 likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
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96 from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
97 Default: 64
98
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99INET peer storage:
100
101inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
e18f5feb 102 The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold
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103 entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines
104 entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
105 passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
106
107inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
108 Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
109 time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
110 guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
77a538d5 111 Measured in seconds.
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113inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
114 Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
115 this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
116 when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
77a538d5 117 Measured in seconds.
1da177e4 118
e18f5feb 119TCP variables:
1da177e4 120
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121somaxconn - INTEGER
122 Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
123 Defaults to 128. See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
124 for TCP sockets.
125
9772efb9 126tcp_abc - INTEGER
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127 Controls Appropriate Byte Count (ABC) defined in RFC3465.
128 ABC is a way of increasing congestion window (cwnd) more slowly
129 in response to partial acknowledgments.
130 Possible values are:
131 0 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment (no ABC)
132 1 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment of full sized segment
133 2 allow increase cwnd by two if acknowledgment is
134 of two segments to compensate for delayed acknowledgments.
135 Default: 0 (off)
9772efb9 136
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137tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
138 If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
139 reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
140 occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
141 option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
142 cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
143 option can harm clients of your server.
1da177e4 144
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145tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
146 Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
147 (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
148 if it is <= 0.
0147fc05 149 Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
b49960a0 150 Default: 1
1da177e4 151
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152tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
153 Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
154 processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
155 tcp_available_congestion_control.
156 Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
1da177e4 157
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158tcp_app_win - INTEGER
159 Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
160 buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
161 Default: 31
1da177e4 162
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163tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
164 Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
165 More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
166 but not loaded.
1da177e4 167
71599cd1 168tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
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169 The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
170 Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled,
171 this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
71599cd1 172
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173tcp_congestion_control - STRING
174 Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
175 connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
176 additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
177 Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
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178 For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice
179 is inherited.
180 [see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
1da177e4 181
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182tcp_cookie_size - INTEGER
183 Default size of TCP Cookie Transactions (TCPCT) option, that may be
184 overridden on a per socket basis by the TCPCT socket option.
185 Values greater than the maximum (16) are interpreted as the maximum.
186 Values greater than zero and less than the minimum (8) are interpreted
187 as the minimum. Odd values are interpreted as the next even value.
188 Default: 0 (off).
189
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190tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
191 Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
1da177e4 192
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193tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER
194 Enable Early Retransmit (ER), per RFC 5827. ER lowers the threshold
195 for triggering fast retransmit when the amount of outstanding data is
196 small and when no previously unsent data can be transmitted (such
197 that limited transmit could be used).
198 Possible values:
199 0 disables ER
200 1 enables ER
201 2 enables ER but delays fast recovery and fast retransmit
202 by a fourth of RTT. This mitigates connection falsely
203 recovers when network has a small degree of reordering
204 (less than 3 packets).
205 Default: 2
206
34a6ef38 207tcp_ecn - INTEGER
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208 Enable Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in TCP. ECN is only
209 used when both ends of the TCP flow support it. It is useful to
210 avoid losses due to congestion (when the bottleneck router supports
211 ECN).
212 Possible values are:
213 0 disable ECN
214 1 ECN enabled
215 2 Only server-side ECN enabled. If the other end does
216 not support ECN, behavior is like with ECN disabled.
217 Default: 2
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219tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
220 Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
221 The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
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223tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
224 Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed
225 by our side. Peer can be broken and never close its side,
226 or even died unexpectedly. Default value is 60sec.
227 Usual value used in 2.2 was 180 seconds, you may restore
228 it, but remember that if your machine is even underloaded WEB server,
229 you risk to overflow memory with kilotons of dead sockets,
230 FIN-WAIT-2 sockets are less dangerous than FIN-WAIT-1,
231 because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend
232 to live longer. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
233
89808060 234tcp_frto - INTEGER
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235 Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC4138.
236 F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
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237 timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments
238 where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
564262c1 239 rather than intermediate router congestion. F-RTO is sender-side
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240 only modification. Therefore it does not require any support from
241 the peer.
242
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243 If set to 1, basic version is enabled. 2 enables SACK enhanced
244 F-RTO if flow uses SACK. The basic version can be used also when
564262c1 245 SACK is in use though scenario(s) with it exists where F-RTO
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246 interacts badly with the packet counting of the SACK enabled TCP
247 flow.
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249tcp_frto_response - INTEGER
250 When F-RTO has detected that a TCP retransmission timeout was
251 spurious (i.e, the timeout would have been avoided had TCP set a
252 longer retransmission timeout), TCP has several options what to do
253 next. Possible values are:
254 0 Rate halving based; a smooth and conservative response,
255 results in halved cwnd and ssthresh after one RTT
256 1 Very conservative response; not recommended because even
257 though being valid, it interacts poorly with the rest of
258 Linux TCP, halves cwnd and ssthresh immediately
259 2 Aggressive response; undoes congestion control measures
260 that are now known to be unnecessary (ignoring the
261 possibility of a lost retransmission that would require
262 TCP to be more cautious), cwnd and ssthresh are restored
263 to the values prior timeout
264 Default: 0 (rate halving based)
265
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266tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
267 How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
268 Default: 2hours.
1da177e4 269
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270tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
271 How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
272 connection is broken. Default value: 9.
273
274tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
275 How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
276 tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
277 after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
278 will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
279
280tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
281 If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower
282 latency as opposed to higher throughput. By default, this
283 option is not set meaning that higher throughput is preferred.
284 An example of an application where this default should be
285 changed would be a Beowulf compute cluster.
286 Default: 0
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288tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
289 Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
290 held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
291 reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
292 only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
293 or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
294 (probably, after increasing installed memory),
295 if network conditions require more than default value,
296 and tune network services to linger and kill such states
297 more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
298 up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
299
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300tcp_max_ssthresh - INTEGER
301 Limited Slow-Start for TCP with large congestion windows (cwnd) defined in
302 RFC3742. Limited slow-start is a mechanism to limit growth of the cwnd
303 on the region where cwnd is larger than tcp_max_ssthresh. TCP increases cwnd
304 by at most tcp_max_ssthresh segments, and by at least tcp_max_ssthresh/2
305 segments per RTT when the cwnd is above tcp_max_ssthresh.
306 If TCP connection increased cwnd to thousands (or tens of thousands) segments,
307 and thousands of packets were being dropped during slow-start, you can set
308 tcp_max_ssthresh to improve performance for new TCP connection.
309 Default: 0 (off)
310
1da177e4 311tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
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312 Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which have not
313 received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
314 The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
315 increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
316 If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
1da177e4 317
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318tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
319 Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
320 If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
321 and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
322 simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
323 but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
324 if network conditions require more than default value.
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326tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
327 min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
328 memory appetite.
1da177e4 329
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330 pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
331 of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
332 pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
333 under "min".
1da177e4 334
ef56e622 335 max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
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337 Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
338 memory.
1da177e4 339
71599cd1 340tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
4edc2f34 341 If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
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342 automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
343 match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by
344 default.
345
346tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
347 Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three
348 values:
349 0 - Disabled
350 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
351 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
352
353tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
354 By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
355 when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
356 near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this
357 increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
0f035b8e 358 degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
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359 connections.
360
ef56e622 361tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
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362 This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
363 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
364 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
365
06b8fc5d 366 The default value is 8.
5d789229 367 If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
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368 you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
369 may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
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371tcp_reordering - INTEGER
372 Maximal reordering of packets in a TCP stream.
e18f5feb 373 Default: 3
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375tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
376 Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
377 On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
378 certain TCP stacks.
379
ef56e622 380tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
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381 This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
382 something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
383 and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
384 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
385
386 RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
387 default.
1da177e4 388
ef56e622 389tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
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390 This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
391 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
392 Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
393 exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
394 retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
395
396 The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
397 seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
398 TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
399 hypothetical timeout.
400
401 RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
402 which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
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404tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
405 If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
406 we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
407 assassination.
408 Default: 0
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410tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
411 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
412 It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
413 pressure.
6539fefd 414 Default: 1 page
1da177e4 415
53025f5e 416 default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
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417 This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
418 Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
419 default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
420 less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
421
422 max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
423 selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
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424 net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
425 automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
426 case this value is ignored.
b49960a0 427 Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
1da177e4 428
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429tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
430 Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
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432tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
433 If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
434 window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
435 the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
436 be timed out after an idle period.
437 Default: 1
1da177e4 438
ef56e622 439tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
4edc2f34 440 Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
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441 Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
442 Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
443 Default: FALSE
1da177e4 444
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445tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
446 Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
447 be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
448 is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
1da177e4 449
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450tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
451 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES
452 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
4edc2f34 453 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
ef56e622 454 Default: FALSE
1da177e4 455
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456 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
457 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
4edc2f34 458 against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
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459 in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
460 because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
461 another parameters until this warning disappear.
462 See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
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464 syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
465 to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
466 of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
467 but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
4edc2f34 468 SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
ef56e622 469 is seriously misconfigured.
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471tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
472 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
473 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
474 is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
475
476tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN
477 Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
1da177e4 478
1da177e4 479tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
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480 This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
481 can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
482 The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
483 building larger TSO frames.
484 Default: 3
1da177e4 485
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486tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN
487 Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0.
488 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
489 experts.
1da177e4 490
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491tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
492 Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
493 safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
494 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
495 experts.
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497tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
498 Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
3ff825b2 499
ef56e622 500tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
53025f5e 501 min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
ef56e622 502 Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
6539fefd 503 Default: 1 page
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505 default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets. This
506 value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
507 It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
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508 Default: 16K
509
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510 max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
511 send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
512 net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
513 automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
514 this value is ignored.
515 Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
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517tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
518 If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
519 remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
520 If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
521 not receive a window scaling option from them.
522 Default: 0
523
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524tcp_dma_copybreak - INTEGER
525 Lower limit, in bytes, of the size of socket reads that will be
526 offloaded to a DMA copy engine, if one is present in the system
527 and CONFIG_NET_DMA is enabled.
528 Default: 4096
529
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530tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
531 Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
532 If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
533 determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
534 As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
535 timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
536 initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
537 non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
538 For more information on thin streams, see
539 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
540 Default: 0
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542tcp_thin_dupack - BOOLEAN
543 Enable dynamic triggering of retransmissions after one dupACK
544 for thin streams. If set, a check is performed upon reception
545 of a dupACK to determine if the stream is thin (less than 4
546 packets in flight). As long as the stream is found to be thin,
547 data is retransmitted on the first received dupACK. This
548 improves retransmission latency for non-aggressive thin
549 streams, often found to be time-dependent.
550 For more information on thin streams, see
551 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
552 Default: 0
553
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554UDP variables:
555
556udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
557 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
558
559 min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its
560 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds
561 this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage.
562
563 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
564
565 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
566
567 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
568
569udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
570 Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
571 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
572 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
6539fefd 573 Default: 1 page
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575udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
576 Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
577 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if
578 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
6539fefd 579 Default: 1 page
95766fff 580
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582
583cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
584 If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
585 cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
586 miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
587 invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
588 off and the cache will always be "safe".
589 Default: 1
590
591cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
592 The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
593 hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits
594 the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
595 more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of
596 entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
597 causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
598 Default: 10
599
600cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
601 Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
602 the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
603 This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
604 categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
605 Default: 0
606
607cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
608 If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
609 ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during
610 ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
611 where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
612 result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
613 with other implementations that require strict checking.
614 Default: 0
615
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617
618ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
619 Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
e18f5feb 620 choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
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621 second the last local port number. The default values are
622 32768 and 61000 respectively.
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624ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
625 Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
626 applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
627 assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
628 number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
629
630 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
631 list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
632 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
633 ports and update the current list with the one given in the
634 input.
635
636 Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
637 settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
638 when determining which ports are available for automatic port
639 assignments.
640
641 You can reserve ports which are not in the current
642 ip_local_port_range, e.g.:
643
644 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
645 32000 61000
646 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
647 8080,9148
648
649 although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
650 if later the port range is changed to a value that will
651 include the reserved ports.
652
653 Default: Empty
654
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655ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
656 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
657 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
658 Default: 0
659
660ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
661 If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
662 If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
663 message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
664 occurs.
665 Default: 0
666
667icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
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669 requests sent to it.
670 Default: 0
671
1da177e4 672icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
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674 TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
675 Default: 1
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677icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
678 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
679 icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
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680 0 to disable any limiting,
681 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
682 Default: 1000
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684icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
685 Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
686 Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
687 Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168)
688
689 Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
690 0 Echo Reply
691 3 Destination Unreachable *
692 4 Source Quench *
693 5 Redirect
694 8 Echo Request
695 B Time Exceeded *
696 C Parameter Problem *
697 D Timestamp Request
698 E Timestamp Reply
699 F Info Request
700 G Info Reply
701 H Address Mask Request
702 I Address Mask Reply
703
704 * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
705
706icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
707 Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
708 frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
709 If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
710 will avoid log file clutter.
711 Default: FALSE
712
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714
715 If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
716 the exiting interface.
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718 If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
719 the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
720 This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
721 a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
e18f5feb 722 much easier.
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724 Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
725 then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
d6bc8ac9 726 has one will be used regardless of this setting.
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728 Default: 0
729
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730igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
731 Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
732 Default: 20
733
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734 Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
735 report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
736 datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
737 intend to).
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739 The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group
740 report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
741
742 M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
743
744 Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
745 So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
746
747 (65536-24) / 12 = 5459
748
749 The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
750 this number may be lower.
751
752 conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where
753 "interface" is the name of your network interface)
754
755 conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
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756
757log_martians - BOOLEAN
758 Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
759 log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
760 conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
761 it will be disabled otherwise
762
763accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
764 Accept ICMP redirect messages.
765 accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
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767 forwarding for the interface is enabled
1da177e4 768 or
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769 - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
770 case forwarding for the interface is disabled
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771 accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
772 default TRUE (host)
773 FALSE (router)
774
775forwarding - BOOLEAN
776 Enable IP forwarding on this interface.
777
778mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
779 Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
780 and a multicast routing daemon is required.
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781 conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
782 routing for the interface
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784medium_id - INTEGER
785 Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
786 are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
787 the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
788 The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
789 to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
e18f5feb 790
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791 Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
792 the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
793 two devices attached to different media.
794
795proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
796 Do proxy arp.
797 proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
798 conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
799 it will be disabled otherwise
800
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801proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
802 Private VLAN proxy arp.
803 Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
804 (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
805
806 This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
807 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
808 communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
809 the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
810 to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
811 router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
812 proxy_arp.
813
814 This technology is known by different names:
815 In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
816 Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
817 Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
818 Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
819
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820shared_media - BOOLEAN
821 Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
822 Overrides ip_secure_redirects.
823 shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
824 conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
825 it will be disabled otherwise
826 default TRUE
827
828secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
829 Accept ICMP redirect messages only for gateways,
830 listed in default gateway list.
831 secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
832 conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
833 it will be disabled otherwise
834 default TRUE
835
836send_redirects - BOOLEAN
837 Send redirects, if router.
838 send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
839 conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
840 it will be disabled otherwise
841 Default: TRUE
842
843bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
844 Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
845 not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
846 BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
847 conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
848 for the interface
849 default FALSE
850 Not Implemented Yet.
851
852accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
853 Accept packets with SRR option.
854 conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
855 with SRR option on the interface
856 default TRUE (router)
857 FALSE (host)
858
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859accept_local - BOOLEAN
860 Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
861 suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
862 local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
863 default FALSE
864
c1cf8422 865rp_filter - INTEGER
1da177e4 866 0 - No source validation.
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867 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
868 Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
869 is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
870 By default failed packets are discarded.
871 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
872 Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
873 and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
874 the packet check will fail.
875
e18f5feb 876 Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
bf869c30 877 to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
e18f5feb 878 or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
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880 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
881 when doing source validation on the {interface}.
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882
883 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
884 in startup scripts.
885
886arp_filter - BOOLEAN
887 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
888 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
889 based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
890 the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
891 based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
892 of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
893
894 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
895 from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
896 sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
897 IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
898 particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
899 balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
900
901 arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
902 conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
903 it will be disabled otherwise
904
905arp_announce - INTEGER
906 Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
907 source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
908 interface:
909 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
910 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
911 subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
912 hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
913 address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
914 configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
915 request we will check all our subnets that include the
916 target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
917 such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
918 address according to the rules for level 2.
919 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
920 In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
921 and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
922 the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
923 for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
924 interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
925 local address is found we select the first local address
926 we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
927 with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
928 even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
929
930 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
931
932 Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
933 receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
934 the level announces more valid sender's information.
935
936arp_ignore - INTEGER
937 Define different modes for sending replies in response to
938 received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
939 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
940 on any interface
941 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
942 configured on the incoming interface
943 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
944 configured on the incoming interface and both with the
945 sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
946 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
947 only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
948 4-7 - reserved
949 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
950
951 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
952 when ARP request is received on the {interface}
953
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954arp_notify - BOOLEAN
955 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
956 0 - (default): do nothing
3f8dc236 957 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
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958 or hardware address changes.
959
c1b1bce8 960arp_accept - BOOLEAN
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961 Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not
962 already present in the ARP table:
963 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
964 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
965
966 Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
967 ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
968
969 If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
970 gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
971 if this setting is on or off.
972
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974app_solicit - INTEGER
975 The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
976 via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
977 mcast_solicit). Defaults to 0.
978
979disable_policy - BOOLEAN
980 Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
981
982disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
983 Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
984
985
986
987tag - INTEGER
988 Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
989 Default value is 0.
990
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992kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
993
994Updated by:
995Andi Kleen
996ak@muc.de
997Nicolas Delon
998delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
999
1000
1001
1002
1003/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
1004
1005IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
1006apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
1007
1008bindv6only - BOOLEAN
1009 Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
e18f5feb 1010 which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
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1011 only.
1012 TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
1013 FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
1014
d5c073ca 1015 Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
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1016
1017IPv6 Fragmentation:
1018
1019ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1020 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
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1021 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
1022 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
1023 is reached.
e18f5feb 1024
1da177e4 1025ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1026 See ip6frag_high_thresh
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1028ip6frag_time - INTEGER
1029 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
1030
1031ip6frag_secret_interval - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1032 Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
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1033 for the hash secret) for IPv6 fragments.
1034 Default: 600
1035
1036conf/default/*:
1037 Change the interface-specific default settings.
1038
1039
1040conf/all/*:
e18f5feb 1041 Change all the interface-specific settings.
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1043 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
1044
1045conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
e18f5feb 1046 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
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e18f5feb 1048 IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
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1049 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
1050
e18f5feb 1051 This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
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1052 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details.
1053
1054 This referred to as global forwarding.
1055
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1056proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
1057 Do proxy ndp.
1058
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1059conf/interface/*:
1060 Change special settings per interface.
1061
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1063 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
1064
605b91c8 1065accept_ra - INTEGER
1da177e4 1066 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
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1069 Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
1070 accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
1071 transmitted.
1072
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1073 Possible values are:
1074 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements.
1075 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
1076 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
1077 even if forwarding is enabled.
1078
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1079 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1080 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1081
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1082accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
1083 Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
1084
1085 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1086 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1087
c4fd30eb 1088accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
2fe0ae78 1089 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
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1090
1091 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1092 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1093
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1094accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
1095 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1096
1097 Route Information w/ prefix larger than or equal to this
1098 variable shall be ignored.
1099
1100 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1101 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1102
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1103accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
1104 Accept Router Preference in RA.
1105
1106 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1107 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1108
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1109accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1110 Accept Redirects.
1111
1112 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1113 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1114
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1115accept_source_route - INTEGER
1116 Accept source routing (routing extension header).
1117
bb4dbf9e 1118 >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
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1119 < 0: Do not accept routing header.
1120
1121 Default: 0
1122
1da177e4 1123autoconf - BOOLEAN
e18f5feb 1124 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
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1125 Advertisements.
1126
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1127 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
1128 disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
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1130dad_transmits - INTEGER
1131 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
1132 Default: 1
e18f5feb 1133
605b91c8 1134forwarding - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1135 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
1da177e4 1136
e18f5feb 1137 Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
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1138 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
1139
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1141 0 Forwarding disabled
1142 1 Forwarding enabled
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1144 FALSE (0):
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1146 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
1147
1148 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
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1150 Solicitations.
e18f5feb 1151 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
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1152 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
1153 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
1154
ae8abfa0 1155 TRUE (1):
1da177e4 1156
e18f5feb 1157 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
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1158 This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1159
1160 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
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1163 4. Redirects are ignored.
1164
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1166 otherwise 1 (enabled).
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1167
1168hop_limit - INTEGER
1169 Default Hop Limit to set.
1170 Default: 64
1171
1172mtu - INTEGER
1173 Default Maximum Transfer Unit
1174 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
1175
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1176router_probe_interval - INTEGER
1177 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
1178 in RFC4191.
1179
1180 Default: 60
1181
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1182router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
1183 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
1184 before sending Router Solicitations.
1185 Default: 1
1186
1187router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
1188 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
1189 Default: 4
1190
1191router_solicitations - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1192 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
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1194 Default: 3
1195
1196use_tempaddr - INTEGER
1197 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
1198 <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
1199 == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
1200 addresses over temporary addresses.
1201 > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
1202 addresses over public addresses.
1203 Default: 0 (for most devices)
1204 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
1205
1206temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
1207 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1208 Default: 604800 (7 days)
1209
1210temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
1211 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1212 Default: 86400 (1 day)
1213
1214max_desync_factor - INTEGER
1215 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
e18f5feb 1216 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
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1217 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
1218 value is in seconds.
1219 Default: 600
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1221regen_max_retry - INTEGER
1222 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
1223 valid temporary addresses.
1224 Default: 5
1225
1226max_addresses - INTEGER
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1227 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting
1228 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this
1229 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
1230 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
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1231 Default: 16
1232
778d80be 1233disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
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1234 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
1235 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
1236 address.
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1237 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
1238
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1239 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
1240 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
1241 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
1242
1243 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
1244 it will dynamically delete all address on the given interface.
1245
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1246accept_dad - INTEGER
1247 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
1248 0: Disable DAD
1249 1: Enable DAD (default)
1250 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
1251 link-local address has been found.
1252
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1253force_tllao - BOOLEAN
1254 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
1255 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
1256 Default: FALSE
1257
1258 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
1259
1260 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
1261 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
1262 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
1263 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
1264 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
1265 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
1266 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
1267 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
1268 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
1269 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
1270
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1271icmp/*:
1272ratelimit - INTEGER
1273 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
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1274 0 to disable any limiting,
1275 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1276 Default: 1000
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1277
1278
1279IPv6 Update by:
1280Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
1281YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
1282
1283
1284/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
1285
1286bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
1287 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
1288 0 : disable this.
1289 Default: 1
1290
1291bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
1292 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
1293 0 : disable this.
1294 Default: 1
1295
1296bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
1297 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
1298 0 : disable this.
1299 Default: 1
1300
1301bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
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1302 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
1303 0 : disable this.
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1305
1306bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
1307 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
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1311bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
1312 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
1313 interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the vlan.
1314 This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the REDIRECT
1315 target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces. When no matching
1316 vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input device is
1317 set to the bridge interface.
1318 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
1319 Default: 0
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1321proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
1322
1323addip_enable - BOOLEAN
1324 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1325 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides
1326 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
1327 associations.
1328
1329 1: Enable extension.
1330
1331 0: Disable extension.
1332
1333 Default: 0
1334
1335addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
1336 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
1337 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
1338 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
1339 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older
1340 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
1341 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability,
1342 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
1343 authentication requirement.
1344
1345 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This
1346 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
1347 with older implementations.
1348
1349 0: Enforce the authentication requirement
1350
1351 Default: 0
1352
1353auth_enable - BOOLEAN
1354 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension
1355 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
1356 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1357 (ADD-IP) extension.
1358
1359 1: Enable this extension.
1360 0: Disable this extension.
1361
1362 Default: 0
1363
1364prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
1365 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
1366 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
1367
1368 1: Enable extension
1369 0: Disable
1370
1371 Default: 1
1372
1373max_burst - INTEGER
1374 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It
1375 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
1376
1377 Default: 4
1378
1379association_max_retrans - INTEGER
1380 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
1381 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value
1382 is exceeded, the association is terminated.
1383
1384 Default: 10
1385
1386max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
1387 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
1388 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
1389 unreachable and terminating.
1390
1391 Default: 8
1392
1393path_max_retrans - INTEGER
1394 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
1395 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
1396 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
1397 association is multihomed.
1398
1399 Default: 5
1400
1401rto_initial - INTEGER
1402 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
1403 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval
1404 for retransmissions.
1405
1406 Default: 3000
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1408rto_max - INTEGER
1409 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
1410 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
1411
1412 Default: 60000
1413
1414rto_min - INTEGER
1415 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
1416 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
1417
1418 Default: 1000
1419
1420hb_interval - INTEGER
1421 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks
1422 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
1423 a given path between 2 associations.
1424
1425 Default: 30000
1426
1427sack_timeout - INTEGER
1428 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
1429 to send a SACK.
1430
1431 Default: 200
1432
1433valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
1434 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie
1435 is used during association establishment.
1436
1437 Default: 60000
1438
1439cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
1440 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
1441 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
1442
1443 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
1444 0: Disable
1445
1446 Default: 1
1447
1448rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
1449 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
1450 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
1451 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is
1452 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
1453 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
1454 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this,
1455 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
1456 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described
1457 blocking.
1458
1459 1: rcvbuf space is per association
1460 0: recbuf space is per socket
1461
1462 Default: 0
1463
1464sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
1465 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
1466
1467 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
1468 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
1469
1470 Default: 0
1471
1472sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
1473 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
1474
1475 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
1476 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
1477 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
1478
1479 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
1480
1481 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
1482
1483 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
1484
1485sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
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1486 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
1487 ignored.
1488
1489 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
1490 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
1491 under moderate memory pressure.
1492
1493 Default: 1 page
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1495sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
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1498addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
1499 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
1500
1501 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
1502 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
1503 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
1504 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
1505
1506 Default: 1
1507
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1512
1513/proc/sys/net/unix/*
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1514max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
1515 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
1516
1517 Default: 10
1518
1519
1520UNDOCUMENTED:
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1521
1522/proc/sys/net/irda/*
1523 fast_poll_increase FIXME
1524 warn_noreply_time FIXME
1525 discovery_slots FIXME
1526 slot_timeout FIXME
1527 max_baud_rate FIXME
1528 discovery_timeout FIXME
1529 lap_keepalive_time FIXME
1530 max_noreply_time FIXME
1531 max_tx_data_size FIXME
1532 max_tx_window FIXME
1533 min_tx_turn_time FIXME