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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
23 default 562 - minimum discovered Path MTU
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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34mtu_expires - INTEGER
35 Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
36
37min_adv_mss - INTEGER
38 The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
39 never be lower than this setting.
40
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41rt_cache_rebuild_count - INTEGER
42 The per net-namespace route cache emergency rebuild threshold.
43 Any net-namespace having its route cache rebuilt due to
44 a hash bucket chain being too long more than this many times
45 will have its route caching disabled
46
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47IP Fragmentation:
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49ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 50 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When
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51 ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
52 the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh
53 is reached.
e18f5feb 54
1da177e4 55ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 56 See ipfrag_high_thresh
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57
58ipfrag_time - INTEGER
e18f5feb 59 Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
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60
61ipfrag_secret_interval - INTEGER
e18f5feb 62 Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
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63 for the hash secret) for IP fragments.
64 Default: 600
65
89cee8b1 66ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
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67 ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
68 maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
69 common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
70 not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
71 IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
72 probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
73 have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
74 is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
75 ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
76 address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
77 address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
78 lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
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79 started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
80
81 Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
82 result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
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83 reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
84 performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
85 likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
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86 from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
87 Default: 64
88
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89INET peer storage:
90
91inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
e18f5feb 92 The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold
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93 entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines
94 entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
95 passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
96
97inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
98 Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
99 time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
100 guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
77a538d5 101 Measured in seconds.
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103inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
104 Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
105 this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
106 when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
77a538d5 107 Measured in seconds.
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109inet_peer_gc_mintime - INTEGER
110 Minimum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval is
111 in effect under high memory pressure on the pool.
77a538d5 112 Measured in seconds.
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114inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER
115 Minimum interval between garbage collection passes. This interval is
116 in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool.
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.
ef56e622 150 Default: 2
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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
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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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179tcp_cookie_size - INTEGER
180 Default size of TCP Cookie Transactions (TCPCT) option, that may be
181 overridden on a per socket basis by the TCPCT socket option.
182 Values greater than the maximum (16) are interpreted as the maximum.
183 Values greater than zero and less than the minimum (8) are interpreted
184 as the minimum. Odd values are interpreted as the next even value.
185 Default: 0 (off).
186
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187tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
188 Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
1da177e4 189
34a6ef38 190tcp_ecn - INTEGER
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191 Enable Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in TCP. ECN is only
192 used when both ends of the TCP flow support it. It is useful to
193 avoid losses due to congestion (when the bottleneck router supports
194 ECN).
195 Possible values are:
196 0 disable ECN
197 1 ECN enabled
198 2 Only server-side ECN enabled. If the other end does
199 not support ECN, behavior is like with ECN disabled.
200 Default: 2
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201
202tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
203 Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
204 The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
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206tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
207 Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed
208 by our side. Peer can be broken and never close its side,
209 or even died unexpectedly. Default value is 60sec.
210 Usual value used in 2.2 was 180 seconds, you may restore
211 it, but remember that if your machine is even underloaded WEB server,
212 you risk to overflow memory with kilotons of dead sockets,
213 FIN-WAIT-2 sockets are less dangerous than FIN-WAIT-1,
214 because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend
215 to live longer. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
216
89808060 217tcp_frto - INTEGER
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218 Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC4138.
219 F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
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220 timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments
221 where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
564262c1 222 rather than intermediate router congestion. F-RTO is sender-side
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223 only modification. Therefore it does not require any support from
224 the peer.
225
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226 If set to 1, basic version is enabled. 2 enables SACK enhanced
227 F-RTO if flow uses SACK. The basic version can be used also when
564262c1 228 SACK is in use though scenario(s) with it exists where F-RTO
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229 interacts badly with the packet counting of the SACK enabled TCP
230 flow.
1da177e4 231
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232tcp_frto_response - INTEGER
233 When F-RTO has detected that a TCP retransmission timeout was
234 spurious (i.e, the timeout would have been avoided had TCP set a
235 longer retransmission timeout), TCP has several options what to do
236 next. Possible values are:
237 0 Rate halving based; a smooth and conservative response,
238 results in halved cwnd and ssthresh after one RTT
239 1 Very conservative response; not recommended because even
240 though being valid, it interacts poorly with the rest of
241 Linux TCP, halves cwnd and ssthresh immediately
242 2 Aggressive response; undoes congestion control measures
243 that are now known to be unnecessary (ignoring the
244 possibility of a lost retransmission that would require
245 TCP to be more cautious), cwnd and ssthresh are restored
246 to the values prior timeout
247 Default: 0 (rate halving based)
248
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249tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
250 How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
251 Default: 2hours.
1da177e4 252
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253tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
254 How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
255 connection is broken. Default value: 9.
256
257tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
258 How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
259 tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
260 after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
261 will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
262
263tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
264 If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower
265 latency as opposed to higher throughput. By default, this
266 option is not set meaning that higher throughput is preferred.
267 An example of an application where this default should be
268 changed would be a Beowulf compute cluster.
269 Default: 0
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271tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
272 Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
273 held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
274 reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
275 only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
276 or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
277 (probably, after increasing installed memory),
278 if network conditions require more than default value,
279 and tune network services to linger and kill such states
280 more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
281 up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
282
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283tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
284 Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are
285 still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client.
286 Default value is 1024 for systems with more than 128Mb of memory,
287 and 128 for low memory machines. If server suffers of overload,
288 try to increase this number.
289
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290tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
291 Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
292 If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
293 and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
294 simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
295 but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
296 if network conditions require more than default value.
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298tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
299 min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
300 memory appetite.
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302 pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
303 of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
304 pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
305 under "min".
1da177e4 306
ef56e622 307 max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
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309 Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
310 memory.
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71599cd1 312tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
4edc2f34 313 If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
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314 automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
315 match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by
316 default.
317
318tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
319 Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three
320 values:
321 0 - Disabled
322 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
323 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
324
325tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
326 By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
327 when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
328 near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this
329 increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
0f035b8e 330 degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
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331 connections.
332
ef56e622 333tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
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334 This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
335 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
336 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
337
338 The default value is 7.
339 If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
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340 you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
341 may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
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343tcp_reordering - INTEGER
344 Maximal reordering of packets in a TCP stream.
e18f5feb 345 Default: 3
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347tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
348 Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
349 On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
350 certain TCP stacks.
351
ef56e622 352tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
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353 This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
354 something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
355 and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
356 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
357
358 RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
359 default.
1da177e4 360
ef56e622 361tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
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362 This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
363 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
364 Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
365 exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
366 retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
367
368 The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
369 seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
370 TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
371 hypothetical timeout.
372
373 RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
374 which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
1da177e4 375
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376tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
377 If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
378 we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
379 assassination.
380 Default: 0
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382tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
383 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
384 It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
385 pressure.
386 Default: 8K
387
53025f5e 388 default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
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389 This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
390 Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
391 default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
392 less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
393
394 max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
395 selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
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396 net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
397 automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
398 case this value is ignored.
399 Default: between 87380B and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
1da177e4 400
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401tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
402 Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
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404tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
405 If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
406 window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
407 the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
408 be timed out after an idle period.
409 Default: 1
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ef56e622 411tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
4edc2f34 412 Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
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413 Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
414 Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
415 Default: FALSE
1da177e4 416
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417tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
418 Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
419 be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
420 is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
1da177e4 421
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422tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
423 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES
424 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
4edc2f34 425 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
ef56e622 426 Default: FALSE
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428 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
429 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
4edc2f34 430 against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
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431 in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
432 because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
433 another parameters until this warning disappear.
434 See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
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436 syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
437 to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
438 of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
439 but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
4edc2f34 440 SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
ef56e622 441 is seriously misconfigured.
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443tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
444 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
445 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
446 is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
447
448tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN
449 Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
1da177e4 450
1da177e4 451tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
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452 This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
453 can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
454 The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
455 building larger TSO frames.
456 Default: 3
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458tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN
459 Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0.
460 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
461 experts.
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463tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
464 Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
465 safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
466 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
467 experts.
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469tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
470 Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
3ff825b2 471
ef56e622 472tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
53025f5e 473 min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
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474 Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
475 Default: 4K
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477 default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets. This
478 value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
479 It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
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480 Default: 16K
481
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482 max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
483 send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
484 net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
485 automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
486 this value is ignored.
487 Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
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489tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
490 If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
491 remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
492 If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
493 not receive a window scaling option from them.
494 Default: 0
495
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496tcp_dma_copybreak - INTEGER
497 Lower limit, in bytes, of the size of socket reads that will be
498 offloaded to a DMA copy engine, if one is present in the system
499 and CONFIG_NET_DMA is enabled.
500 Default: 4096
501
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502tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
503 Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
504 If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
505 determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
506 As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
507 timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
508 initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
509 non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
510 For more information on thin streams, see
511 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
512 Default: 0
513
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514tcp_thin_dupack - BOOLEAN
515 Enable dynamic triggering of retransmissions after one dupACK
516 for thin streams. If set, a check is performed upon reception
517 of a dupACK to determine if the stream is thin (less than 4
518 packets in flight). As long as the stream is found to be thin,
519 data is retransmitted on the first received dupACK. This
520 improves retransmission latency for non-aggressive thin
521 streams, often found to be time-dependent.
522 For more information on thin streams, see
523 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
524 Default: 0
525
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526UDP variables:
527
528udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
529 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
530
531 min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its
532 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds
533 this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage.
534
535 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
536
537 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
538
539 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
540
541udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
542 Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
543 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
544 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
545 Default: 4096
546
547udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
548 Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
549 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if
550 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
551 Default: 4096
552
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553CIPSOv4 Variables:
554
555cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
556 If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
557 cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
558 miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
559 invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
560 off and the cache will always be "safe".
561 Default: 1
562
563cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
564 The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
565 hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits
566 the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
567 more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of
568 entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
569 causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
570 Default: 10
571
572cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
573 Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
574 the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
575 This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
576 categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
577 Default: 0
578
579cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
580 If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
581 ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during
582 ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
583 where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
584 result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
585 with other implementations that require strict checking.
586 Default: 0
587
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588IP Variables:
589
590ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
591 Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
e18f5feb 592 choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
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593 second the last local port number. Default value depends on
594 amount of memory available on the system:
595 > 128Mb 32768-61000
596 < 128Mb 1024-4999 or even less.
597 This number defines number of active connections, which this
598 system can issue simultaneously to systems not supporting
599 TCP extensions (timestamps). With tcp_tw_recycle enabled
600 (i.e. by default) range 1024-4999 is enough to issue up to
601 2000 connections per second to systems supporting timestamps.
602
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603ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
604 Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
605 applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
606 assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
607 number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
608
609 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
610 list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
611 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
612 ports and update the current list with the one given in the
613 input.
614
615 Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
616 settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
617 when determining which ports are available for automatic port
618 assignments.
619
620 You can reserve ports which are not in the current
621 ip_local_port_range, e.g.:
622
623 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
624 32000 61000
625 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
626 8080,9148
627
628 although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
629 if later the port range is changed to a value that will
630 include the reserved ports.
631
632 Default: Empty
633
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634ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
635 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
636 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
637 Default: 0
638
639ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
640 If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
641 If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
642 message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
643 occurs.
644 Default: 0
645
646icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
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648 requests sent to it.
649 Default: 0
650
1da177e4 651icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
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652 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
653 TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
654 Default: 1
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656icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
657 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
658 icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
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659 0 to disable any limiting,
660 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
661 Default: 1000
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662
663icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
664 Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
665 Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
666 Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168)
667
668 Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
669 0 Echo Reply
670 3 Destination Unreachable *
671 4 Source Quench *
672 5 Redirect
673 8 Echo Request
674 B Time Exceeded *
675 C Parameter Problem *
676 D Timestamp Request
677 E Timestamp Reply
678 F Info Request
679 G Info Reply
680 H Address Mask Request
681 I Address Mask Reply
682
683 * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
684
685icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
686 Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
687 frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
688 If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
689 will avoid log file clutter.
690 Default: FALSE
691
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692icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
693
694 If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
695 the exiting interface.
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697 If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
698 the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
699 This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
700 a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
e18f5feb 701 much easier.
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702
703 Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
704 then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
d6bc8ac9 705 has one will be used regardless of this setting.
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706
707 Default: 0
708
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709igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
710 Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
711 Default: 20
712
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713 Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
714 report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
715 datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
716 intend to).
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719 report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
720
721 M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
722
723 Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
724 So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
725
726 (65536-24) / 12 = 5459
727
728 The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
729 this number may be lower.
730
731 conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where
732 "interface" is the name of your network interface)
733
734 conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
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735
736log_martians - BOOLEAN
737 Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
738 log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
739 conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
740 it will be disabled otherwise
741
742accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
743 Accept ICMP redirect messages.
744 accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
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745 - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
746 forwarding for the interface is enabled
1da177e4 747 or
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748 - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
749 case forwarding for the interface is disabled
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750 accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
751 default TRUE (host)
752 FALSE (router)
753
754forwarding - BOOLEAN
755 Enable IP forwarding on this interface.
756
757mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
758 Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
759 and a multicast routing daemon is required.
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760 conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
761 routing for the interface
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762
763medium_id - INTEGER
764 Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
765 are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
766 the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
767 The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
768 to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
e18f5feb 769
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770 Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
771 the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
772 two devices attached to different media.
773
774proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
775 Do proxy arp.
776 proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
777 conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
778 it will be disabled otherwise
779
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780proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
781 Private VLAN proxy arp.
782 Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
783 (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
784
785 This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
786 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
787 communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
788 the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
789 to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
790 router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
791 proxy_arp.
792
793 This technology is known by different names:
794 In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
795 Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
796 Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
797 Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
798
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799shared_media - BOOLEAN
800 Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
801 Overrides ip_secure_redirects.
802 shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
803 conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
804 it will be disabled otherwise
805 default TRUE
806
807secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
808 Accept ICMP redirect messages only for gateways,
809 listed in default gateway list.
810 secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
811 conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
812 it will be disabled otherwise
813 default TRUE
814
815send_redirects - BOOLEAN
816 Send redirects, if router.
817 send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
818 conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
819 it will be disabled otherwise
820 Default: TRUE
821
822bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
823 Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
824 not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
825 BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
826 conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
827 for the interface
828 default FALSE
829 Not Implemented Yet.
830
831accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
832 Accept packets with SRR option.
833 conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
834 with SRR option on the interface
835 default TRUE (router)
836 FALSE (host)
837
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838accept_local - BOOLEAN
839 Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
840 suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
841 local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
842 default FALSE
843
c1cf8422 844rp_filter - INTEGER
1da177e4 845 0 - No source validation.
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846 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
847 Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
848 is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
849 By default failed packets are discarded.
850 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
851 Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
852 and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
853 the packet check will fail.
854
e18f5feb 855 Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
bf869c30 856 to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
e18f5feb 857 or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
c1cf8422 858
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859 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
860 when doing source validation on the {interface}.
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861
862 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
863 in startup scripts.
864
865arp_filter - BOOLEAN
866 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
867 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
868 based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
869 the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
870 based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
871 of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
872
873 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
874 from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
875 sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
876 IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
877 particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
878 balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
879
880 arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
881 conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
882 it will be disabled otherwise
883
884arp_announce - INTEGER
885 Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
886 source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
887 interface:
888 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
889 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
890 subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
891 hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
892 address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
893 configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
894 request we will check all our subnets that include the
895 target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
896 such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
897 address according to the rules for level 2.
898 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
899 In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
900 and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
901 the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
902 for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
903 interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
904 local address is found we select the first local address
905 we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
906 with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
907 even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
908
909 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
910
911 Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
912 receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
913 the level announces more valid sender's information.
914
915arp_ignore - INTEGER
916 Define different modes for sending replies in response to
917 received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
918 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
919 on any interface
920 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
921 configured on the incoming interface
922 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
923 configured on the incoming interface and both with the
924 sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
925 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
926 only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
927 4-7 - reserved
928 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
929
930 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
931 when ARP request is received on the {interface}
932
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933arp_notify - BOOLEAN
934 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
935 0 - (default): do nothing
3f8dc236 936 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
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937 or hardware address changes.
938
c1b1bce8 939arp_accept - BOOLEAN
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940 Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not
941 already present in the ARP table:
942 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
943 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
944
945 Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
946 ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
947
948 If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
949 gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
950 if this setting is on or off.
951
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953app_solicit - INTEGER
954 The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
955 via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
956 mcast_solicit). Defaults to 0.
957
958disable_policy - BOOLEAN
959 Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
960
961disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
962 Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
963
964
965
966tag - INTEGER
967 Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
968 Default value is 0.
969
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971kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
972
973Updated by:
974Andi Kleen
975ak@muc.de
976Nicolas Delon
977delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
978
979
980
981
982/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
983
984IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
985apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
986
987bindv6only - BOOLEAN
988 Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
e18f5feb 989 which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
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990 only.
991 TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
992 FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
993
994 Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC2553bis)
995
996IPv6 Fragmentation:
997
998ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 999 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
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1000 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
1001 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
1002 is reached.
e18f5feb 1003
1da177e4 1004ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1005 See ip6frag_high_thresh
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1006
1007ip6frag_time - INTEGER
1008 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
1009
1010ip6frag_secret_interval - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1011 Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
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1012 for the hash secret) for IPv6 fragments.
1013 Default: 600
1014
1015conf/default/*:
1016 Change the interface-specific default settings.
1017
1018
1019conf/all/*:
e18f5feb 1020 Change all the interface-specific settings.
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1021
1022 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
1023
1024conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
e18f5feb 1025 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
1da177e4 1026
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1028 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
1029
e18f5feb 1030 This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
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1031 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details.
1032
1033 This referred to as global forwarding.
1034
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1035proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
1036 Do proxy ndp.
1037
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1038conf/interface/*:
1039 Change special settings per interface.
1040
e18f5feb 1041 The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
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1042 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
1043
1044accept_ra - BOOLEAN
1045 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
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1047 Possible values are:
1048 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements.
1049 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
1050 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
1051 even if forwarding is enabled.
1052
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1053 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1054 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1055
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1056accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
1057 Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
1058
1059 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1060 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1061
c4fd30eb 1062accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
2fe0ae78 1063 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
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1064
1065 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1066 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1067
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1068accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
1069 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1070
1071 Route Information w/ prefix larger than or equal to this
1072 variable shall be ignored.
1073
1074 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1075 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1076
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1077accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
1078 Accept Router Preference in RA.
1079
1080 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1081 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1082
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1083accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1084 Accept Redirects.
1085
1086 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1087 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1088
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1089accept_source_route - INTEGER
1090 Accept source routing (routing extension header).
1091
bb4dbf9e 1092 >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
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1093 < 0: Do not accept routing header.
1094
1095 Default: 0
1096
1da177e4 1097autoconf - BOOLEAN
e18f5feb 1098 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
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1099 Advertisements.
1100
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1101 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
1102 disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
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1103
1104dad_transmits - INTEGER
1105 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
1106 Default: 1
e18f5feb 1107
1da177e4 1108forwarding - BOOLEAN
e18f5feb 1109 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
1da177e4 1110
e18f5feb 1111 Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
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1112 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
1113
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1115 0 Forwarding disabled
1116 1 Forwarding enabled
1117 2 Forwarding enabled (Hybrid Mode)
1118
1119 FALSE (0):
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1120
1121 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
1122
1123 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1124 2. Router Solicitations are being sent when necessary.
e18f5feb 1125 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
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1126 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
1127 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
1128
ae8abfa0 1129 TRUE (1):
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e18f5feb 1131 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
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1132 This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1133
1134 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1135 2. Router Solicitations are not sent.
ae8abfa0 1136 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
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1137 4. Redirects are ignored.
1138
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1140
1141 Hybrid mode. Same behaviour as TRUE, except for:
1142
1143 2. Router Solicitations are being sent when necessary.
1144
1145 Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
1146 otherwise 1 (enabled).
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1147
1148hop_limit - INTEGER
1149 Default Hop Limit to set.
1150 Default: 64
1151
1152mtu - INTEGER
1153 Default Maximum Transfer Unit
1154 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
1155
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1156router_probe_interval - INTEGER
1157 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
1158 in RFC4191.
1159
1160 Default: 60
1161
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1162router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
1163 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
1164 before sending Router Solicitations.
1165 Default: 1
1166
1167router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
1168 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
1169 Default: 4
1170
1171router_solicitations - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1172 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
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1173 routers are present.
1174 Default: 3
1175
1176use_tempaddr - INTEGER
1177 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
1178 <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
1179 == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
1180 addresses over temporary addresses.
1181 > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
1182 addresses over public addresses.
1183 Default: 0 (for most devices)
1184 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
1185
1186temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
1187 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1188 Default: 604800 (7 days)
1189
1190temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
1191 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1192 Default: 86400 (1 day)
1193
1194max_desync_factor - INTEGER
1195 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
e18f5feb 1196 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
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1197 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
1198 value is in seconds.
1199 Default: 600
e18f5feb 1200
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1201regen_max_retry - INTEGER
1202 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
1203 valid temporary addresses.
1204 Default: 5
1205
1206max_addresses - INTEGER
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1207 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting
1208 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this
1209 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
1210 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
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1211 Default: 16
1212
778d80be 1213disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
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1214 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
1215 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
1216 address.
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1217 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
1218
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1219 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
1220 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
1221 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
1222
1223 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
1224 it will dynamically delete all address on the given interface.
1225
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1226accept_dad - INTEGER
1227 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
1228 0: Disable DAD
1229 1: Enable DAD (default)
1230 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
1231 link-local address has been found.
1232
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1233force_tllao - BOOLEAN
1234 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
1235 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
1236 Default: FALSE
1237
1238 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
1239
1240 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
1241 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
1242 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
1243 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
1244 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
1245 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
1246 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
1247 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
1248 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
1249 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
1250
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1251icmp/*:
1252ratelimit - INTEGER
1253 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
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1254 0 to disable any limiting,
1255 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1256 Default: 1000
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1257
1258
1259IPv6 Update by:
1260Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
1261YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
1262
1263
1264/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
1265
1266bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
1267 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
1268 0 : disable this.
1269 Default: 1
1270
1271bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
1272 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
1273 0 : disable this.
1274 Default: 1
1275
1276bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
1277 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
1278 0 : disable this.
1279 Default: 1
1280
1281bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
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1282 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
1283 0 : disable this.
1284 Default: 1
1285
1286bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
1287 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
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1288 0 : disable this.
1289 Default: 1
1290
1291
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1292proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
1293
1294addip_enable - BOOLEAN
1295 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1296 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides
1297 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
1298 associations.
1299
1300 1: Enable extension.
1301
1302 0: Disable extension.
1303
1304 Default: 0
1305
1306addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
1307 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
1308 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
1309 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
1310 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older
1311 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
1312 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability,
1313 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
1314 authentication requirement.
1315
1316 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This
1317 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
1318 with older implementations.
1319
1320 0: Enforce the authentication requirement
1321
1322 Default: 0
1323
1324auth_enable - BOOLEAN
1325 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension
1326 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
1327 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1328 (ADD-IP) extension.
1329
1330 1: Enable this extension.
1331 0: Disable this extension.
1332
1333 Default: 0
1334
1335prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
1336 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
1337 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
1338
1339 1: Enable extension
1340 0: Disable
1341
1342 Default: 1
1343
1344max_burst - INTEGER
1345 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It
1346 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
1347
1348 Default: 4
1349
1350association_max_retrans - INTEGER
1351 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
1352 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value
1353 is exceeded, the association is terminated.
1354
1355 Default: 10
1356
1357max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
1358 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
1359 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
1360 unreachable and terminating.
1361
1362 Default: 8
1363
1364path_max_retrans - INTEGER
1365 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
1366 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
1367 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
1368 association is multihomed.
1369
1370 Default: 5
1371
1372rto_initial - INTEGER
1373 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
1374 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval
1375 for retransmissions.
1376
1377 Default: 3000
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1379rto_max - INTEGER
1380 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
1381 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
1382
1383 Default: 60000
1384
1385rto_min - INTEGER
1386 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
1387 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
1388
1389 Default: 1000
1390
1391hb_interval - INTEGER
1392 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks
1393 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
1394 a given path between 2 associations.
1395
1396 Default: 30000
1397
1398sack_timeout - INTEGER
1399 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
1400 to send a SACK.
1401
1402 Default: 200
1403
1404valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
1405 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie
1406 is used during association establishment.
1407
1408 Default: 60000
1409
1410cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
1411 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
1412 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
1413
1414 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
1415 0: Disable
1416
1417 Default: 1
1418
1419rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
1420 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
1421 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
1422 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is
1423 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
1424 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
1425 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this,
1426 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
1427 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described
1428 blocking.
1429
1430 1: rcvbuf space is per association
1431 0: recbuf space is per socket
1432
1433 Default: 0
1434
1435sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
1436 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
1437
1438 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
1439 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
1440
1441 Default: 0
1442
1443sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
1444 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
1445
1446 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
1447 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
1448 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
1449
1450 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
1451
1452 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
1453
1454 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
1455
1456sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
1457 See tcp_rmem for a description.
1458
1459sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
1460 See tcp_wmem for a description.
1461
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1462addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
1463 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
1464
1465 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
1466 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
1467 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
1468 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
1469
1470 Default: 1
1471
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1474dev_weight - INTEGER
1475 The maximum number of packets that kernel can handle on a NAPI
1476 interrupt, it's a Per-CPU variable.
1477
1478 Default: 64
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1479
1480/proc/sys/net/unix/*
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1481max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
1482 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
1483
1484 Default: 10
1485
1486
1487UNDOCUMENTED:
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1488
1489/proc/sys/net/irda/*
1490 fast_poll_increase FIXME
1491 warn_noreply_time FIXME
1492 discovery_slots FIXME
1493 slot_timeout FIXME
1494 max_baud_rate FIXME
1495 discovery_timeout FIXME
1496 lap_keepalive_time FIXME
1497 max_noreply_time FIXME
1498 max_tx_data_size FIXME
1499 max_tx_window FIXME
1500 min_tx_turn_time FIXME