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1/proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables:
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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)
1da177e4 17
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18ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER
19 Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled in mode 1 and a
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20 fragmentation-required ICMP is received, the PMTU to this
21 destination will be set to min_pmtu (see below). You will need
22 to raise min_pmtu to the smallest interface MTU on your system
23 manually if you want to avoid locally generated fragments.
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24
25 In mode 2 incoming Path MTU Discovery messages will be
26 discarded. Outgoing frames are handled the same as in mode 1,
27 implicitly setting IP_PMTUDISC_DONT on every created socket.
28
bb38ccce 29 Mode 3 is a hardened pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only
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30 accept fragmentation-needed errors if the underlying protocol
31 can verify them besides a plain socket lookup. Current
32 protocols for which pmtu events will be honored are TCP, SCTP
33 and DCCP as they verify e.g. the sequence number or the
34 association. This mode should not be enabled globally but is
35 only intended to secure e.g. name servers in namespaces where
36 TCP path mtu must still work but path MTU information of other
37 protocols should be discarded. If enabled globally this mode
38 could break other protocols.
39
40 Possible values: 0-3
188b04d5 41 Default: FALSE
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42
43min_pmtu - INTEGER
20db93c3 44 default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU
1da177e4 45
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46ip_forward_use_pmtu - BOOLEAN
47 By default we don't trust protocol path MTUs while forwarding
48 because they could be easily forged and can lead to unwanted
49 fragmentation by the router.
50 You only need to enable this if you have user-space software
51 which tries to discover path mtus by itself and depends on the
52 kernel honoring this information. This is normally not the
53 case.
54 Default: 0 (disabled)
55 Possible values:
56 0 - disabled
57 1 - enabled
58
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59fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
60 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv4 reply packets that are not
61 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMP echo replies).
62 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
63 fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
64 Default: 0
65
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66fib_multipath_use_neigh - BOOLEAN
67 Use status of existing neighbor entry when determining nexthop for
68 multipath routes. If disabled, neighbor information is not used and
69 packets could be directed to a failed nexthop. Only valid for kernels
70 built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled.
71 Default: 0 (disabled)
72 Possible values:
73 0 - disabled
74 1 - enabled
75
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76fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
77 Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes. Only valid
78 for kernels built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled.
79 Default: 0 (Layer 3)
80 Possible values:
81 0 - Layer 3
82 1 - Layer 4
363887a2 83 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
bf4e0a3d 84
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85fib_sync_mem - UNSIGNED INTEGER
86 Amount of dirty memory from fib entries that can be backlogged before
87 synchronize_rcu is forced.
88 Default: 512kB Minimum: 64kB Maximum: 64MB
89
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90ip_forward_update_priority - INTEGER
91 Whether to update SKB priority from "TOS" field in IPv4 header after it
92 is forwarded. The new SKB priority is mapped from TOS field value
93 according to an rt_tos2priority table (see e.g. man tc-prio).
94 Default: 1 (Update priority.)
95 Possible values:
96 0 - Do not update priority.
97 1 - Update priority.
98
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99route/max_size - INTEGER
100 Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase
101 this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
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102 From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
103 as route cache is no longer used.
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105neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
106 Minimum number of entries to keep. Garbage collector will not
107 purge entries if there are fewer than this number.
b66c66dc 108 Default: 128
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a3d12146 110neigh/default/gc_thresh2 - INTEGER
111 Threshold when garbage collector becomes more aggressive about
112 purging entries. Entries older than 5 seconds will be cleared
113 when over this number.
114 Default: 512
115
cbaf087a 116neigh/default/gc_thresh3 - INTEGER
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117 Maximum number of non-PERMANENT neighbor entries allowed. Increase
118 this when using large numbers of interfaces and when communicating
cbaf087a 119 with large numbers of directly-connected peers.
cc868028 120 Default: 1024
cbaf087a 121
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122neigh/default/unres_qlen_bytes - INTEGER
123 The maximum number of bytes which may be used by packets
124 queued for each unresolved address by other network layers.
125 (added in linux 3.3)
3b09adcb 126 Setting negative value is meaningless and will return error.
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127 Default: SK_WMEM_MAX, (same as net.core.wmem_default).
128 Exact value depends on architecture and kernel options,
129 but should be enough to allow queuing 256 packets
130 of medium size.
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131
132neigh/default/unres_qlen - INTEGER
133 The maximum number of packets which may be queued for each
134 unresolved address by other network layers.
135 (deprecated in linux 3.3) : use unres_qlen_bytes instead.
cc868028 136 Prior to linux 3.3, the default value is 3 which may cause
5d248c49 137 unexpected packet loss. The current default value is calculated
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138 according to default value of unres_qlen_bytes and true size of
139 packet.
eaa72dc4 140 Default: 101
8b5c171b 141
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142mtu_expires - INTEGER
143 Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
144
145min_adv_mss - INTEGER
146 The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
147 never be lower than this setting.
148
149IP Fragmentation:
150
3e67f106 151ipfrag_high_thresh - LONG INTEGER
648700f7 152 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments.
e18f5feb 153
3e67f106 154ipfrag_low_thresh - LONG INTEGER
648700f7 155 (Obsolete since linux-4.17)
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156 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments before the kernel
157 begins to remove incomplete fragment queues to free up resources.
158 The kernel still accepts new fragments for defragmentation.
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160ipfrag_time - INTEGER
e18f5feb 161 Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
1da177e4 162
89cee8b1 163ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
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164 ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
165 maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
166 common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
167 not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
168 IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
169 probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
170 have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
171 is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
172 ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
173 address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
174 address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
175 lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
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176 started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
177
178 Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
179 result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
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180 reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
181 performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
182 likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
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183 from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
184 Default: 64
185
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186INET peer storage:
187
188inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
e18f5feb 189 The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold
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190 entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines
191 entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
192 passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
193
194inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
195 Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
196 time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
197 guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
77a538d5 198 Measured in seconds.
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199
200inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
201 Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
202 this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
203 when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
77a538d5 204 Measured in seconds.
1da177e4 205
e18f5feb 206TCP variables:
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208somaxconn - INTEGER
209 Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
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210 Defaults to 4096. (Was 128 before linux-5.4)
211 See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning for TCP sockets.
ef56e622 212
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213tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
214 If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
215 reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
216 occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
217 option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
218 cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
219 option can harm clients of your server.
1da177e4 220
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221tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
222 Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
223 (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
224 if it is <= 0.
0147fc05 225 Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
b49960a0 226 Default: 1
1da177e4 227
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228tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
229 Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
230 processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
231 tcp_available_congestion_control.
232 Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
1da177e4 233
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234tcp_app_win - INTEGER
235 Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
236 buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
237 Default: 31
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239tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN
240 Enable TCP auto corking :
241 When applications do consecutive small write()/sendmsg() system calls,
242 we try to coalesce these small writes as much as possible, to lower
243 total amount of sent packets. This is done if at least one prior
244 packet for the flow is waiting in Qdisc queues or device transmit
245 queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior
246 when they know how/when to uncork their sockets.
247 Default : 1
248
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249tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
250 Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
251 More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
252 but not loaded.
1da177e4 253
71599cd1 254tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
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255 The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
256 Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled,
257 this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
71599cd1 258
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259tcp_mtu_probe_floor - INTEGER
260 If MTU probing is enabled this caps the minimum MSS used for search_low
261 for the connection.
262
263 Default : 48
264
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265tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER
266 TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option,
267 as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691.
268 If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss,
269 it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss.
270
271 Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
272
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273tcp_congestion_control - STRING
274 Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
275 connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
276 additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
277 Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
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278 For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice
279 is inherited.
280 [see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
1da177e4 281
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282tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
283 Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
1da177e4 284
eed530b6 285tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER
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286 Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail
287 losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that
288 TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below)
eed530b6 289 Possible values:
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290 0 disables TLP
291 3 or 4 enables TLP
6ba8a3b1 292 Default: 3
eed530b6 293
34a6ef38 294tcp_ecn - INTEGER
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295 Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by TCP.
296 ECN is used only when both ends of the TCP connection indicate
297 support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses due
298 to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal
299 congestion before having to drop packets.
255cac91 300 Possible values are:
7e3a2dc5 301 0 Disable ECN. Neither initiate nor accept ECN.
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302 1 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections and
303 also request ECN on outgoing connection attempts.
304 2 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections
7e3a2dc5 305 but do not request ECN on outgoing connections.
255cac91 306 Default: 2
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308tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN
309 If the kernel detects that ECN connection misbehaves, enable fall
310 back to non-ECN. Currently, this knob implements the fallback
311 from RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1., but we reserve that in future,
312 additional detection mechanisms could be implemented under this
313 knob. The value is not used, if tcp_ecn or per route (or congestion
314 control) ECN settings are disabled.
315 Default: 1 (fallback enabled)
316
ef56e622 317tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
713bafea 318 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
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320tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
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321 The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any
322 application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state
323 before it is aborted at the local end. While a perfectly
324 valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an
325 orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait
326 forever for the remote to close its end of the connection.
327 Cf. tcp_max_orphans
328 Default: 60 seconds
1da177e4 329
89808060 330tcp_frto - INTEGER
e33099f9 331 Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682.
cd99889c 332 F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
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333 timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in networks where the
334 RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only
335 modification. It does not require any support from the peer.
336
337 By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO.
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339tcp_fwmark_accept - BOOLEAN
340 If set, incoming connections to listening sockets that do not have a
341 socket mark will set the mark of the accepting socket to the fwmark of
342 the incoming SYN packet. This will cause all packets on that connection
343 (starting from the first SYNACK) to be sent with that fwmark. The
344 listening socket's mark is unchanged. Listening sockets that already
345 have a fwmark set via setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_MARK, ...) are
346 unaffected.
347
348 Default: 0
349
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350tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER
351 Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments
352 in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing
353 connection but that are invalid due to any of these reasons:
354
355 (a) out-of-window sequence number,
356 (b) out-of-window acknowledgment number, or
357 (c) PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) check failure
358
359 This can help mitigate simple "ack loop" DoS attacks, wherein
360 a buggy or malicious middlebox or man-in-the-middle can
361 rewrite TCP header fields in manner that causes each endpoint
362 to think that the other is sending invalid TCP segments, thus
363 causing each side to send an unterminating stream of duplicate
364 acknowledgments for invalid segments.
365
366 Using 0 disables rate-limiting of dupacks in response to
367 invalid segments; otherwise this value specifies the minimal
368 space between sending such dupacks, in milliseconds.
369
370 Default: 500 (milliseconds).
371
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372tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
373 How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
374 Default: 2hours.
1da177e4 375
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376tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
377 How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
378 connection is broken. Default value: 9.
379
380tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
381 How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
382 tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
383 after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
384 will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
385
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386tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
387 Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index.
388 Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work
389 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets
390 derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in
391 which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was
392 compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
6897445f 393 Default: 0 (disabled)
6dd9a14e 394
ef56e622 395tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
b6690b14 396 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
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398tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
399 Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
400 held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
401 reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
402 only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
403 or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
404 (probably, after increasing installed memory),
405 if network conditions require more than default value,
406 and tune network services to linger and kill such states
407 more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
408 up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
409
1da177e4 410tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
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411 Maximal number of remembered connection requests (SYN_RECV),
412 which have not received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
413 This is a per-listener limit.
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414 The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
415 increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
416 If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
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417 Remember to also check /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
418 A SYN_RECV request socket consumes about 304 bytes of memory.
1da177e4 419
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420tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
421 Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
422 If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
423 and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
424 simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
425 but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
426 if network conditions require more than default value.
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428tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
429 min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
430 memory appetite.
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432 pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
433 of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
434 pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
435 under "min".
1da177e4 436
ef56e622 437 max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
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439 Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
440 memory.
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442tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER
443 The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT.
444 A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher)
445 minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic
446 engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT
447 inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds.
19fad20d 448 Possible values: 0 - 86400 (1 day)
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449 Default: 300
450
71599cd1 451tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
4edc2f34 452 If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
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453 automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
454 match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by
455 default.
456
457tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
458 Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three
459 values:
460 0 - Disabled
461 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
462 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
463
d4ce5808 464tcp_probe_interval - UNSIGNED INTEGER
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465 Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
466 Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
467 per RFC4821.
468
469tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
470 Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
471 will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
472 is 8 bytes.
473
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474tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
475 By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
476 when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
477 near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this
478 increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
0f035b8e 479 degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
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480 connections.
481
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482tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
483 Controls whether TCP saves ssthresh metrics in the route cache.
484 Default is 1, which disables ssthresh metrics.
485
ef56e622 486tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
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487 This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
488 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
489 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
490
06b8fc5d 491 The default value is 8.
5d789229 492 If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
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493 you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
494 may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
1da177e4 495
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496tcp_recovery - INTEGER
497 This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery
498 features.
499
500 RACK: 0x1 enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost
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501 retransmissions and tail drops. It also subsumes and disables
502 RFC6675 recovery for SACK connections.
1f255691 503 RACK: 0x2 makes RACK's reordering window static (min_rtt/4).
20b654df 504 RACK: 0x4 disables RACK's DUPACK threshold heuristic
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505
506 Default: 0x1
507
1da177e4 508tcp_reordering - INTEGER
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509 Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
510 TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level
511 between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering
e18f5feb 512 Default: 3
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514tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER
515 Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
516 300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it
517 if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode)
518 Default: 300
519
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520tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
521 Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
522 On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
523 certain TCP stacks.
524
ef56e622 525tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
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526 This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
527 something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
528 and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
529 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
530
531 RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
532 default.
1da177e4 533
ef56e622 534tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
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535 This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
536 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
537 Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
538 exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
539 retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
540
541 The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
542 seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
543 TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
544 hypothetical timeout.
545
546 RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
547 which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
1da177e4 548
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549tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
550 If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
551 we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
552 assassination.
553 Default: 0
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555tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
556 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
557 It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
558 pressure.
a61a86f8 559 Default: 4K
1da177e4 560
53025f5e 561 default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
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562 This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
563 Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
564 default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
565 less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
566
567 max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
568 selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
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570 automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
571 case this value is ignored.
b49960a0 572 Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
1da177e4 573
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574tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
575 Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
1da177e4 576
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577tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns - LONG INTEGER
578 TCP tries to reduce number of SACK sent, using a timer
579 based on 5% of SRTT, capped by this sysctl, in nano seconds.
580 The default is 1ms, based on TSO autosizing period.
581
582 Default : 1,000,000 ns (1 ms)
583
9c21d2fc 584tcp_comp_sack_nr - INTEGER
2bcd9d84 585 Max number of SACK that can be compressed.
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586 Using 0 disables SACK compression.
587
2bcd9d84 588 Default : 44
9c21d2fc 589
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590tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
591 If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
592 window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
593 the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
594 be timed out after an idle period.
595 Default: 1
1da177e4 596
ef56e622 597tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
4edc2f34 598 Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
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599 Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
600 Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
601 Default: FALSE
1da177e4 602
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603tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
604 Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
605 be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
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607 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
608 for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
1da177e4 609
d8513df2 610tcp_syncookies - INTEGER
a3c910d2 611 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
ef56e622 612 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
4edc2f34 613 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
a3c910d2 614 Default: 1
1da177e4 615
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616 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
617 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
4edc2f34 618 against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
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619 in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
620 because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
621 another parameters until this warning disappear.
622 See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
1da177e4 623
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624 syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
625 to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
626 of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
627 but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
4edc2f34 628 SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
ef56e622 629 is seriously misconfigured.
1da177e4 630
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632 network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
633 unconditionally generation of syncookies.
634
cf60af03 635tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
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637 SYN packet.
10467163 638
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639 The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client
640 then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag,
641 rather than connect() to send data in SYN.
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643 The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then
644 either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or
645 enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with
646 the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog.
cf60af03 647
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648 The values (bitmap) are
649 0x1: (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
650 0x2: (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in
651 a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the
652 application before 3-way handshake finishes.
653 0x4: (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie
654 availability and without a cookie option.
655 0x200: (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
656 0x400: (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by
657 default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option.
658
659 Default: 0x1
10467163 660
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661 Note that that additional client or server features are only
662 effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively.
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664tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER
665 Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets
666 when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens.
667 This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues
668 get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to
669 initial value when the blackhole issue goes away.
7268586b 670 0 to disable the blackhole detection.
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671 By default, it is set to 1hr.
672
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673tcp_fastopen_key - list of comma separated 32-digit hexadecimal INTEGERs
674 The list consists of a primary key and an optional backup key. The
675 primary key is used for both creating and validating cookies, while the
676 optional backup key is only used for validating cookies. The purpose of
677 the backup key is to maximize TFO validation when keys are rotated.
678
679 A randomly chosen primary key may be configured by the kernel if
680 the tcp_fastopen sysctl is set to 0x400 (see above), or if the
681 TCP_FASTOPEN setsockopt() optname is set and a key has not been
682 previously configured via sysctl. If keys are configured via
683 setsockopt() by using the TCP_FASTOPEN_KEY optname, then those
684 per-socket keys will be used instead of any keys that are specified via
685 sysctl.
686
687 A key is specified as 4 8-digit hexadecimal integers which are separated
688 by a '-' as: xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx. Leading zeros may be
689 omitted. A primary and a backup key may be specified by separating them
690 by a comma. If only one key is specified, it becomes the primary key and
691 any previously configured backup keys are removed.
692
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693tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
694 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
bffae697 695 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value
3b09adcb 696 is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission
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698 for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
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701Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
702 0: Disabled.
703 1: Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323 and use random offset for
704 each connection rather than only using the current time.
705 2: Like 1, but without random offsets.
706 Default: 1
1da177e4 707
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708tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER
709 Minimal number of segments per TSO frame.
710 Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames,
711 depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets.
712 For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big
713 TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets
714 if available window is too small.
715 Default: 2
716
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717tcp_pacing_ss_ratio - INTEGER
718 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
719 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
720 If TCP is in slow start, tcp_pacing_ss_ratio is applied
721 to let TCP probe for bigger speeds, assuming cwnd can be
722 doubled every other RTT.
723 Default: 200
724
725tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER
726 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
727 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
728 If TCP is in congestion avoidance phase, tcp_pacing_ca_ratio
729 is applied to conservatively probe for bigger throughput.
730 Default: 120
731
1da177e4 732tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
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733 This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
734 can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
735 The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
736 building larger TSO frames.
737 Default: 3
1da177e4 738
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740 Enable reuse of TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
741 safe from protocol viewpoint.
742 0 - disable
743 1 - global enable
744 2 - enable for loopback traffic only
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745 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
746 experts.
79e9fed4 747 Default: 2
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749tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
750 Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
3ff825b2 751
ef56e622 752tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
53025f5e 753 min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
ef56e622 754 Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
a61a86f8 755 Default: 4K
9d7bcfc6 756
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758 value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
759 It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
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760 Default: 16K
761
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763 send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
764 net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
765 automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
766 this value is ignored.
767 Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
1da177e4 768
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769tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER
770 A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue,
771 thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll()
772 reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per
773 socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will
774 also not add new buffers if the limit is hit.
775
776 This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for
777 sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change
778 to the global variable has immediate effect.
779
780 Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF)
781
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782tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
783 If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
784 remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
785 If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
786 not receive a window scaling option from them.
787 Default: 0
788
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789tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
790 Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
791 If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
792 determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
793 As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
794 timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
795 initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
796 non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
797 For more information on thin streams, see
798 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
799 Default: 0
800
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801tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER
802 Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket.
803 TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it
804 gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can
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805 result in a large amount of packets queued on the local machine
806 (e.g.: qdiscs, CPU backlog, or device) hurting latency of other
807 flows, for typical pfifo_fast qdiscs. tcp_limit_output_bytes
808 limits the number of bytes on qdisc or device to reduce artificial
809 RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat.
c73e5807 810 Default: 1048576 (16 * 65536)
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812tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
813 Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
814 in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
5309960e 815 Default: 1000
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817tcp_rx_skb_cache - BOOLEAN
818 Controls a per TCP socket cache of one skb, that might help
819 performance of some workloads. This might be dangerous
820 on systems with a lot of TCP sockets, since it increases
821 memory usage.
822
823 Default: 0 (disabled)
824
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825UDP variables:
826
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827udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
828 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
829 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
830 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
831 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
832 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
6897445f 833 Default: 0 (disabled)
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835udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
836 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
837
838 min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its
839 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds
840 this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage.
841
842 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
843
844 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
845
846 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
847
848udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
849 Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
850 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
851 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
320bd6de 852 Default: 4K
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854udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
855 Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
856 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if
857 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
320bd6de 858 Default: 4K
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861
862raw_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
863 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
864 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
865 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
866 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
867 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
868 Default: 1 (enabled)
869
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870CIPSOv4 Variables:
871
872cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
873 If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
874 cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
875 miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
876 invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
877 off and the cache will always be "safe".
878 Default: 1
879
880cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
881 The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
882 hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits
883 the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
884 more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of
885 entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
886 causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
887 Default: 10
888
889cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
890 Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
891 the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
892 This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
893 categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
894 Default: 0
895
896cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
897 If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
898 ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during
899 ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
900 where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
901 result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
902 with other implementations that require strict checking.
903 Default: 0
904
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906
907ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
908 Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
e18f5feb 909 choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
07f4c900 910 second the last local port number.
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912 (one even and one odd value).
913 Must be greater than or equal to ip_unprivileged_port_start.
07f4c900 914 The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively.
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916ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
917 Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
918 applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
919 assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
920 number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
921
922 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
923 list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
924 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
925 ports and update the current list with the one given in the
926 input.
927
928 Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
929 settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
930 when determining which ports are available for automatic port
931 assignments.
932
933 You can reserve ports which are not in the current
934 ip_local_port_range, e.g.:
935
936 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
07f4c900 937 32000 60999
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938 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
939 8080,9148
940
941 although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
942 if later the port range is changed to a value that will
943 include the reserved ports.
944
945 Default: Empty
946
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947ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER
948 This is a per-namespace sysctl. It defines the first
949 unprivileged port in the network namespace. Privileged ports
950 require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them.
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952 overlap with the ip_local_port_range.
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953
954 Default: 1024
955
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956ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
957 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
958 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
959 Default: 0
960
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961ip_autobind_reuse - BOOLEAN
962 By default, bind() does not select the ports automatically even if
963 the new socket and all sockets bound to the port have SO_REUSEADDR.
964 ip_autobind_reuse allows bind() to reuse the port and this is useful
965 when you use bind()+connect(), but may break some applications.
966 The preferred solution is to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT and this
967 option should only be set by experts.
968 Default: 0
969
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970ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
971 If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
972 If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
973 message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
974 occurs.
975 Default: 0
976
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977ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN
978 Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for
979 certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this
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981
982 It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that
983 reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it.
984 Default: 1
985
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986ping_group_range - 2 INTEGERS
987 Restrict ICMP_PROTO datagram sockets to users in the group range.
988 The default is "1 0", meaning, that nobody (not even root) may
989 create ping sockets. Setting it to "100 100" would grant permissions
990 to the single group. "0 4294967295" would enable it for the world, "100
991 4294967295" would enable it for the users, but not daemons.
992
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994 Enable early demux for established TCP sockets.
995 Default: 1
996
997udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
998 Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if
999 your system could experience more unconnected load.
1000 Default: 1
1001
1da177e4 1002icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
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1003 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
1004 requests sent to it.
1005 Default: 0
1006
1da177e4 1007icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
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1008 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
1009 TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
1010 Default: 1
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1012icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
1013 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
1014 icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
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1015 0 to disable any limiting,
1016 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
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1017 Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number
1018 of ICMP packets sent on all targets.
6dbf4bca 1019 Default: 1000
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1021icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER
1022 Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host.
1023 Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are
1024 controlled by this limit.
6dbf4bca 1025 Default: 1000
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1027icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER
1028 icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second,
1029 while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets.
1030 Default: 50
1031
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1033 Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
1034 Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
1035 Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168)
1036
1037 Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
1038 0 Echo Reply
1039 3 Destination Unreachable *
1040 4 Source Quench *
1041 5 Redirect
1042 8 Echo Request
1043 B Time Exceeded *
1044 C Parameter Problem *
1045 D Timestamp Request
1046 E Timestamp Reply
1047 F Info Request
1048 G Info Reply
1049 H Address Mask Request
1050 I Address Mask Reply
1051
1052 * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
1053
1054icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
1055 Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
1056 frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
1057 If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
1058 will avoid log file clutter.
e8b265e8 1059 Default: 1
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1061icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
1062
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1063 If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
1064 the exiting interface.
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1066 If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
1067 the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
1068 This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
1069 a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
e18f5feb 1070 much easier.
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1072 Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
1073 then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
d6bc8ac9 1074 has one will be used regardless of this setting.
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1076 Default: 0
1077
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1078igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
1079 Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
1080 Default: 20
1081
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1082 Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
1083 report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
1084 datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
1085 intend to).
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1087 The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group
1088 report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
1089
1090 M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
1091
1092 Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
1093 So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
1094
1095 (65536-24) / 12 = 5459
1096
1097 The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
1098 this number may be lower.
1099
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1100igmp_max_msf - INTEGER
1101 Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a
1102 multicast group.
1103 Default: 10
1104
a9fe8e29 1105igmp_qrv - INTEGER
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1107 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1)
1108 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
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1110force_igmp_version - INTEGER
1111 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback
1112 allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier
1113 Present timer expires.
1114 1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if
1115 receive IGMPv2/v3 query.
1116 2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive
1117 IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query.
1118 3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0.
1119
1120 Note: this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376
1121 Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could
1122 ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make
1123 this value as default 0 is recommended.
1124
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1125conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where
1126"interface" is the name of your network interface)
1127
1128conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
1129
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1130log_martians - BOOLEAN
1131 Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
1132 log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1133 conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
1134 it will be disabled otherwise
1135
1136accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1137 Accept ICMP redirect messages.
1138 accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
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1139 - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
1140 forwarding for the interface is enabled
1da177e4 1141 or
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1142 - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
1143 case forwarding for the interface is disabled
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1144 accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
1145 default TRUE (host)
1146 FALSE (router)
1147
1148forwarding - BOOLEAN
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1149 Enable IP forwarding on this interface. This controls whether packets
1150 received _on_ this interface can be forwarded.
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1151
1152mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
1153 Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
1154 and a multicast routing daemon is required.
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1155 conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
1156 routing for the interface
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1157
1158medium_id - INTEGER
1159 Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
1160 are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
1161 the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
1162 The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
1163 to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
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1165 Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
1166 the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
1167 two devices attached to different media.
1168
1169proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
1170 Do proxy arp.
1171 proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1172 conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
1173 it will be disabled otherwise
1174
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1175proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
1176 Private VLAN proxy arp.
1177 Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
1178 (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
1179
1180 This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
1181 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
1182 communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
1183 the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
1184 to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
1185 router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
1186 proxy_arp.
1187
1188 This technology is known by different names:
1189 In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
1190 Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
1191 Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
1192 Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
1193
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1194shared_media - BOOLEAN
1195 Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
176b346b 1196 Overrides secure_redirects.
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1197 shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1198 conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
1199 it will be disabled otherwise
1200 default TRUE
1201
1202secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
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1203 Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the
1204 interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect
1205 rules still apply.
1206 Overridden by shared_media.
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1207 secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1208 conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
1209 it will be disabled otherwise
1210 default TRUE
1211
1212send_redirects - BOOLEAN
1213 Send redirects, if router.
1214 send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1215 conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
1216 it will be disabled otherwise
1217 Default: TRUE
1218
1219bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
1220 Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
1221 not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
1222 BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
1223 conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
1224 for the interface
1225 default FALSE
1226 Not Implemented Yet.
1227
1228accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
1229 Accept packets with SRR option.
1230 conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
1231 with SRR option on the interface
1232 default TRUE (router)
1233 FALSE (host)
1234
8153a10c 1235accept_local - BOOLEAN
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1236 Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
1237 suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
1238 local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
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1239 default FALSE
1240
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1241route_localnet - BOOLEAN
1242 Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination
1243 while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes.
1244 default FALSE
1245
c1cf8422 1246rp_filter - INTEGER
1da177e4 1247 0 - No source validation.
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1248 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
1249 Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
1250 is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
1251 By default failed packets are discarded.
1252 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
1253 Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
1254 and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
1255 the packet check will fail.
1256
e18f5feb 1257 Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
bf869c30 1258 to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
e18f5feb 1259 or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
c1cf8422 1260
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1261 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
1262 when doing source validation on the {interface}.
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1263
1264 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
1265 in startup scripts.
1266
1267arp_filter - BOOLEAN
1268 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
1269 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
1270 based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
1271 the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
1272 based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
1273 of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
1274
1275 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
1276 from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
1277 sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
1278 IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
1279 particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
1280 balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
1281
1282 arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1283 conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
1284 it will be disabled otherwise
1285
1286arp_announce - INTEGER
1287 Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
1288 source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
1289 interface:
1290 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
1291 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
1292 subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
1293 hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
1294 address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
1295 configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
1296 request we will check all our subnets that include the
1297 target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
1298 such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
1299 address according to the rules for level 2.
1300 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
1301 In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
1302 and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
1303 the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
1304 for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
1305 interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
1306 local address is found we select the first local address
1307 we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
1308 with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
1309 even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
1310
1311 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
1312
1313 Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
1314 receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
1315 the level announces more valid sender's information.
1316
1317arp_ignore - INTEGER
1318 Define different modes for sending replies in response to
1319 received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
1320 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
1321 on any interface
1322 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1323 configured on the incoming interface
1324 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1325 configured on the incoming interface and both with the
1326 sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
1327 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
1328 only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
1329 4-7 - reserved
1330 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
1331
1332 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
1333 when ARP request is received on the {interface}
1334
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1335arp_notify - BOOLEAN
1336 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1337 0 - (default): do nothing
3f8dc236 1338 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
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1339 or hardware address changes.
1340
c1b1bce8 1341arp_accept - BOOLEAN
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1342 Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not
1343 already present in the ARP table:
1344 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
1345 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
1346
1347 Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
1348 ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
1349
1350 If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
1351 gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
1352 if this setting is on or off.
1353
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1354mcast_solicit - INTEGER
1355 The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state,
1356 when the associated hardware address is unknown. Defaults
1357 to 3.
1358
1359ucast_solicit - INTEGER
1360 The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when
1361 the hardware address is being reconfirmed. Defaults to 3.
c1b1bce8 1362
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1363app_solicit - INTEGER
1364 The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
1365 via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
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1366 mcast_resolicit). Defaults to 0.
1367
1368mcast_resolicit - INTEGER
1369 The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and
1370 app probes in PROBE state. Defaults to 0.
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1371
1372disable_policy - BOOLEAN
1373 Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
1374
1375disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
1376 Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
1377
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1378igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1379 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1380 IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place.
1381 Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
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1383igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1384 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1385 IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place.
1386 Default: 1000 (1 seconds)
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1388promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN
1389 When a primary IP address is removed from this interface
1390 promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of
1391 removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses.
1392
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1393drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1394 Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer
1395 multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1396 This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC
1397 1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons.
1398 Default: off (0)
1399
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1400drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN
1401 Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known
1402 good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1403 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1404 Default: off (0)
1405
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1407tag - INTEGER
1408 Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
1409 Default value is 0.
1410
e69948a0 1411xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER
837f7411 1412 (Obsolete since linux-4.14)
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1413 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4
1414 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will
3c2a89dd 1415 refuse new allocations.
e69948a0 1416
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1417igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN
1418 Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the
1419 224.0.0.X range.
1420 Default TRUE
1421
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1422Alexey Kuznetsov.
1423kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
1424
1425Updated by:
1426Andi Kleen
1427ak@muc.de
1428Nicolas Delon
1429delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
1430
1431
1432
1433
1434/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
1435
1436IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
1437apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
1438
1439bindv6only - BOOLEAN
1440 Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
e18f5feb 1441 which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
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1442 only.
1443 TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
1444 FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
1445
d5c073ca 1446 Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
1da177e4 1447
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1448flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN
1449 Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label.
1450 You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the
1451 flow label manager.
1452 TRUE: enabled
1453 FALSE: disabled
1454 Default: TRUE
1455
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1456auto_flowlabels - INTEGER
1457 Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the
1458 packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to
1459 identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath
cb1ce2ef 1460 Routing (see RFC 6438).
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1461 0: automatic flow labels are completely disabled
1462 1: automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be
1463 disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL
1464 socket option
1465 2: automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a
1466 per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option
1467 3: automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot
1468 be disabled by the socket option
b5677416 1469 Default: 1
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1471flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN
1472 Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is
1473 reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF
1474 is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437.
1475 TRUE: enabled
1476 FALSE: disabled
1477 Default: true
1478
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1479flowlabel_reflect - INTEGER
1480 Control flow label reflection. Needed for Path MTU
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1481 Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast
1482 environments. See RFC 7690 and:
1483 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01
323a53c4 1484
a346abe0 1485 This is a bitmask.
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1486 1: enabled for established flows
1487
1488 Note that this prevents automatic flowlabel changes, as done
1489 in "tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission"
1490 and "tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit"
1491
1492 2: enabled for TCP RESET packets (no active listener)
1493 If set, a RST packet sent in response to a SYN packet on a closed
1494 port will reflect the incoming flow label.
1495
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1496 4: enabled for ICMPv6 echo reply messages.
1497
323a53c4 1498 Default: 0
22b6722b 1499
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1500fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
1501 Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes.
1502 Default: 0 (Layer 3)
1503 Possible values:
1504 0 - Layer 3 (source and destination addresses plus flow label)
1505 1 - Layer 4 (standard 5-tuple)
d8f74f09 1506 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
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1508anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN
1509 Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6
1510 echo reply
1511 TRUE: enabled
1512 FALSE: disabled
1513 Default: FALSE
1514
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1515idgen_delay - INTEGER
1516 Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry
1517 privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is
1518 detected.
1519 Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217)
1520
1521idgen_retries - INTEGER
1522 Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy
1523 address if a DAD conflict is detected.
1524 Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217)
1525
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1526mld_qrv - INTEGER
1527 Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1).
1528 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1)
1529 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1530
ab913455 1531max_dst_opts_number - INTEGER
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1532 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Destination
1533 options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1534 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1535 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1536 Default: 8
1537
ab913455 1538max_hbh_opts_number - INTEGER
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1539 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Hop-by-Hop
1540 options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1541 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1542 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1543 Default: 8
1544
ab913455 1545max_dst_opts_length - INTEGER
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1546 Maximum length allowed for a Destination options extension
1547 header.
1548 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1549
ab913455 1550max_hbh_length - INTEGER
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TH
1551 Maximum length allowed for a Hop-by-Hop options extension
1552 header.
1553 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1554
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1555skip_notify_on_dev_down - BOOLEAN
1556 Controls whether an RTM_DELROUTE message is generated for routes
1557 removed when a device is taken down or deleted. IPv4 does not
1558 generate this message; IPv6 does by default. Setting this sysctl
1559 to true skips the message, making IPv4 and IPv6 on par in relying
1560 on userspace caches to track link events and evict routes.
1561 Default: false (generate message)
1562
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1563IPv6 Fragmentation:
1564
1565ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1566 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
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1567 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
1568 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
1569 is reached.
e18f5feb 1570
1da177e4 1571ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1572 See ip6frag_high_thresh
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1573
1574ip6frag_time - INTEGER
1575 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
1576
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1577IPv6 Segment Routing:
1578
1579seg6_flowlabel - INTEGER
1580 Controls the behaviour of computing the flowlabel of outer
1581 IPv6 header in case of SR T.encaps
1582
1583 -1 set flowlabel to zero.
1584 0 copy flowlabel from Inner packet in case of Inner IPv6
1585 (Set flowlabel to 0 in case IPv4/L2)
1586 1 Compute the flowlabel using seg6_make_flowlabel()
1587
1588 Default is 0.
1589
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1590conf/default/*:
1591 Change the interface-specific default settings.
1592
1593
1594conf/all/*:
e18f5feb 1595 Change all the interface-specific settings.
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1596
1597 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
1598
1599conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
e18f5feb 1600 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
1da177e4 1601
e18f5feb 1602 IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
1da177e4
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1603 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
1604
e18f5feb 1605 This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
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1606 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details.
1607
1608 This referred to as global forwarding.
1609
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1610proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
1611 Do proxy ndp.
1612
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1613fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
1614 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not
1615 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies).
1616 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
1617 fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
1618 Default: 0
1619
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1620conf/interface/*:
1621 Change special settings per interface.
1622
e18f5feb 1623 The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
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1624 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
1625
605b91c8 1626accept_ra - INTEGER
1da177e4 1627 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
e18f5feb 1628
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1629 It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
1630 Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
1631 accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
1632 transmitted.
1633
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1634 Possible values are:
1635 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements.
1636 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
1637 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
1638 even if forwarding is enabled.
1639
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1640 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1641 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1642
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1643accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
1644 Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
1645
1646 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1647 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1648
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1649accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN
1650 Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine
1651 if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted.
1652 Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended
1653 network loop.
1654
1655 Functional default:
1656 enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled
1657 on a specific interface.
1658 disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled
1659 on a specific interface.
1660
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1661accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER
1662 Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement.
1663
1664 Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this
1665 variable shall be ignored.
1666
1667 Default: 1
1668
c4fd30eb 1669accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
2fe0ae78 1670 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
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1671
1672 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1673 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1674
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1675accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER
1676 Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1677
1678 Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall
1679 be ignored.
1680
1681 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1682 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1683
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1684accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
1685 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1686
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1687 Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall
1688 be ignored.
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1689
1690 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1691 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1692
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YH
1693accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
1694 Accept Router Preference in RA.
1695
1696 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1697 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1698
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1699accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
1700 Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
1701 disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
1702
1703 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1704 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1705
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1706accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1707 Accept Redirects.
1708
1709 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1710 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1711
0bcbc926
YH
1712accept_source_route - INTEGER
1713 Accept source routing (routing extension header).
1714
bb4dbf9e 1715 >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
0bcbc926
YH
1716 < 0: Do not accept routing header.
1717
1718 Default: 0
1719
1da177e4 1720autoconf - BOOLEAN
e18f5feb 1721 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
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1722 Advertisements.
1723
c4fd30eb
YH
1724 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
1725 disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
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1726
1727dad_transmits - INTEGER
1728 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
1729 Default: 1
e18f5feb 1730
605b91c8 1731forwarding - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1732 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
1da177e4 1733
e18f5feb 1734 Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
1da177e4
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1735 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
1736
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TG
1737 Possible values are:
1738 0 Forwarding disabled
1739 1 Forwarding enabled
ae8abfa0
TG
1740
1741 FALSE (0):
1da177e4
LT
1742
1743 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
1744
1745 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
026359bc
TA
1746 2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
1747 Solicitations.
e18f5feb 1748 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
1da177e4
LT
1749 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
1750 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
1751
ae8abfa0 1752 TRUE (1):
1da177e4 1753
e18f5feb 1754 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
1da177e4
LT
1755 This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1756
1757 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
026359bc 1758 2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
ae8abfa0 1759 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
1da177e4
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1760 4. Redirects are ignored.
1761
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TG
1762 Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
1763 otherwise 1 (enabled).
1da177e4
LT
1764
1765hop_limit - INTEGER
1766 Default Hop Limit to set.
1767 Default: 64
1768
1769mtu - INTEGER
1770 Default Maximum Transfer Unit
1771 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
1772
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1773ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
1774 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses,
1775 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
1776 Default: 0
1777
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YH
1778router_probe_interval - INTEGER
1779 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
1780 in RFC4191.
1781
1782 Default: 60
1783
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1784router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
1785 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
1786 before sending Router Solicitations.
1787 Default: 1
1788
1789router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
1790 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
1791 Default: 4
1792
1793router_solicitations - INTEGER
e18f5feb 1794 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
1da177e4
LT
1795 routers are present.
1796 Default: 3
1797
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1798use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN
1799 When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations
1800 routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
1801 configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
1802
1803 Default: false
1804
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LT
1805use_tempaddr - INTEGER
1806 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
1807 <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
1808 == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
1809 addresses over temporary addresses.
1810 > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
1811 addresses over public addresses.
1812 Default: 0 (for most devices)
1813 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
1814
1815temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
1816 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1817 Default: 604800 (7 days)
1818
1819temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
1820 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1821 Default: 86400 (1 day)
1822
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DA
1823keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER
1824 Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static
1825 global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed.
1826 >0 : enabled
1827 0 : system default
1828 <0 : disabled
1829
1830 Default: 0 (addresses are removed)
1831
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LT
1832max_desync_factor - INTEGER
1833 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
e18f5feb 1834 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
1da177e4
LT
1835 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
1836 value is in seconds.
1837 Default: 600
e18f5feb 1838
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1839regen_max_retry - INTEGER
1840 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
1841 valid temporary addresses.
1842 Default: 5
1843
1844max_addresses - INTEGER
e79dc484
BH
1845 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting
1846 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this
1847 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
1848 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
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1849 Default: 16
1850
778d80be 1851disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
9bdd8d40
BH
1852 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
1853 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
1854 address.
778d80be
YH
1855 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
1856
56d417b1
BH
1857 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
1858 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
1859 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
1860
1861 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
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LB
1862 it will dynamically delete all addresses and routes on the given
1863 interface. From now on it will not possible to add addresses/routes
1864 to the selected interface.
56d417b1 1865
1b34be74
YH
1866accept_dad - INTEGER
1867 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
1868 0: Disable DAD
1869 1: Enable DAD (default)
1870 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
1871 link-local address has been found.
1872
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MC
1873 DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according
1874 to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad.
1875
f7734fdf
OP
1876force_tllao - BOOLEAN
1877 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
1878 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
1879 Default: FALSE
1880
1881 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
1882
1883 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
1884 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
1885 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
1886 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
1887 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
1888 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
1889 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
1890 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
1891 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
1892 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
1893
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HFS
1894ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN
1895 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1896 0 - (default): do nothing
1897 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought
1898 up or hardware address changes.
1899
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1900ndisc_tclass - INTEGER
1901 The IPv6 Traffic Class to use by default when sending IPv6 Neighbor
1902 Discovery (Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor
1903 Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, Redirect) messages.
1904 These 8 bits can be interpreted as 6 high order bits holding the DSCP
1905 value and 2 low order bits representing ECN (which you probably want
1906 to leave cleared).
1907 0 - (default)
1908
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HFS
1909mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1910 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1911 MLDv1 report retransmit will take place.
1912 Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1913
1914mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1915 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1916 MLDv2 report retransmit will take place.
1917 Default: 1000 (1 second)
1918
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DB
1919force_mld_version - INTEGER
1920 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed
1921 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1
1922 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2
1923
b800c3b9
HFS
1924suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER
1925 Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation
1926 with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior:
1927 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1928 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1929
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1930optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN
1931 Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429).
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MC
1932 0: disabled (default)
1933 1: enabled
1934
1935 Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled
1936 if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1,
1937 it will be disabled otherwise.
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1938
1939use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
1940 If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during
1941 source address selection. Preferred addresses will still be chosen
1942 before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source
1943 address selection algorithm.
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MC
1944 0: disabled (default)
1945 1: enabled
1946
1947 This will be enabled if at least one of
1948 conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise.
7fd2561e 1949
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HFS
1950stable_secret - IPv6 address
1951 This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6
1952 addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured
1953 ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will
1954 be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the
1955 addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the
1956 secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can
1957 overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused.
1958
1959 It is recommended to generate this secret during installation
1960 of a system and keep it stable after that.
1961
1962 By default the stable secret is unset.
1963
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SD
1964addr_gen_mode - INTEGER
1965 Defines how link-local and autoconf addresses are generated.
1966
1967 0: generate address based on EUI64 (default)
1968 1: do no generate a link-local address, use EUI64 for addresses generated
1969 from autoconf
1970 2: generate stable privacy addresses, using the secret from
1971 stable_secret (RFC7217)
1972 3: generate stable privacy addresses, using a random secret if unset
1973
abbc3043
JB
1974drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1975 Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer
1976 multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1977
1978 By default this is turned off.
1979
7a02bf89
JB
1980drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
1981 Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
1982 a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1983 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1984
1985 By default this is turned off.
1986
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EN
1987enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN
1988 Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for
1989 duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal
1990 a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false
1991 detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send.
1992 The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of
1993 conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE.
1994 Default: TRUE
1995
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LT
1996icmp/*:
1997ratelimit - INTEGER
0bc19985 1998 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 messages.
6dbf4bca
SH
1999 0 to disable any limiting,
2000 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
2001 Default: 1000
1da177e4 2002
0bc19985
SS
2003ratemask - list of comma separated ranges
2004 For ICMPv6 message types matching the ranges in the ratemask, limit
2005 the sending of the message according to ratelimit parameter.
2006
2007 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
2008 list of ranges (e.g. "0-127,129" for ICMPv6 message type 0 to 127 and
2009 129). Writing to the file will clear all previous ranges of ICMPv6
2010 message types and update the current list with the input.
2011
2012 Refer to: https://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters/icmpv6-parameters.xhtml
2013 for numerical values of ICMPv6 message types, e.g. echo request is 128
2014 and echo reply is 129.
2015
2016 Default: 0-1,3-127 (rate limit ICMPv6 errors except Packet Too Big)
2017
e6f86b0f
VJ
2018echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
2019 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2020 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol.
2021 Default: 0
2022
03f1eccc
SS
2023echo_ignore_multicast - BOOLEAN
2024 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2025 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol via multicast.
2026 Default: 0
2027
0b03a5ca
SS
2028echo_ignore_anycast - BOOLEAN
2029 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2030 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol destined to anycast address.
2031 Default: 0
2032
e69948a0 2033xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER
837f7411 2034 (Obsolete since linux-4.14)
e69948a0
AD
2035 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6
2036 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will
3c2a89dd 2037 refuse new allocations.
e69948a0 2038
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LT
2039
2040IPv6 Update by:
2041Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
2042YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2043
2044
2045/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
2046
2047bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
2048 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
2049 0 : disable this.
2050 Default: 1
2051
2052bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
2053 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
2054 0 : disable this.
2055 Default: 1
2056
2057bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
2058 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
2059 0 : disable this.
2060 Default: 1
2061
2062bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
516299d2
MM
2063 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
2064 0 : disable this.
4981682c 2065 Default: 0
516299d2
MM
2066
2067bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
2068 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
1da177e4 2069 0 : disable this.
4981682c 2070 Default: 0
1da177e4 2071
4981682c
PNA
2072bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
2073 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
2074 interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the vlan.
2075 This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the REDIRECT
2076 target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces. When no matching
2077 vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input device is
2078 set to the bridge interface.
2079 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
2080 Default: 0
1da177e4 2081
32e8d494
VY
2082proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
2083
2084addip_enable - BOOLEAN
2085 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2086 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides
2087 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
2088 associations.
2089
2090 1: Enable extension.
2091
2092 0: Disable extension.
2093
2094 Default: 0
2095
566178f8
ZY
2096pf_enable - INTEGER
2097 Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value
2098 of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of
2099 both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state.
2100 Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace
2101 application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of
2102 pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans
2103 or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is
2104 enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable
2105 and disable pf state. See:
2106 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for
2107 details.
2108
2109 1: Enable pf.
2110
2111 0: Disable pf.
2112
2113 Default: 1
2114
aef587be
XL
2115pf_expose - INTEGER
2116 Unset or enable/disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state
2117 exposure. Applications can control the exposure of the PF path state
2118 in the SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event and the SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO
2119 sockopt. When it's unset, no SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event with
2120 SCTP_ADDR_PF state will be sent and a SCTP_PF-state transport info
2121 can be got via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt; When it's enabled,
2122 a SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent for a transport becoming
2123 SCTP_PF state and a SCTP_PF-state transport info can be got via
2124 SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt; When it's diabled, no
2125 SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent and it returns -EACCES when
2126 trying to get a SCTP_PF-state transport info via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO
2127 sockopt.
2128
2129 0: Unset pf state exposure, Compatible with old applications.
2130
2131 1: Disable pf state exposure.
2132
2133 2: Enable pf state exposure.
2134
2135 Default: 0
2136
32e8d494
VY
2137addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
2138 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
2139 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
2140 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
2141 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older
2142 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
2143 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability,
2144 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
2145 authentication requirement.
2146
2147 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This
2148 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
2149 with older implementations.
2150
2151 0: Enforce the authentication requirement
2152
2153 Default: 0
2154
2155auth_enable - BOOLEAN
2156 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension
2157 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
2158 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2159 (ADD-IP) extension.
2160
2161 1: Enable this extension.
2162 0: Disable this extension.
2163
2164 Default: 0
2165
2166prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
2167 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
2168 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
2169
2170 1: Enable extension
2171 0: Disable
2172
2173 Default: 1
2174
2175max_burst - INTEGER
2176 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It
2177 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
2178
2179 Default: 4
2180
2181association_max_retrans - INTEGER
2182 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
2183 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value
2184 is exceeded, the association is terminated.
2185
2186 Default: 10
2187
2188max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
2189 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
2190 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
2191 unreachable and terminating.
2192
2193 Default: 8
2194
2195path_max_retrans - INTEGER
2196 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
2197 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
2198 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
2199 association is multihomed.
2200
2201 Default: 5
2202
5aa93bcf
NH
2203pf_retrans - INTEGER
2204 The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path
2205 before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one
2206 exist). Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that
2207 passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used. Its only
2208 deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack. This
2209 setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without
2210 having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See:
2211 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt
2212 for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans
566178f8
ZY
2213 disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can
2214 be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to
2215 disable pf state.
5aa93bcf
NH
2216
2217 Default: 0
2218
34515e94
XL
2219ps_retrans - INTEGER
2220 Primary.Switchover.Max.Retrans (PSMR), it's a tunable parameter coming
2221 from section-5 "Primary Path Switchover" in rfc7829. The primary path
2222 will be changed to another active path when the path error counter on
2223 the old primary path exceeds PSMR, so that "the SCTP sender is allowed
2224 to continue data transmission on a new working path even when the old
2225 primary destination address becomes active again". Note this feature
2226 is disabled by initializing 'ps_retrans' per netns as 0xffff by default,
2227 and its value can't be less than 'pf_retrans' when changing by sysctl.
2228
2229 Default: 0xffff
2230
32e8d494
VY
2231rto_initial - INTEGER
2232 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
2233 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval
2234 for retransmissions.
2235
2236 Default: 3000
1da177e4 2237
32e8d494
VY
2238rto_max - INTEGER
2239 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
2240 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
2241
2242 Default: 60000
2243
2244rto_min - INTEGER
2245 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
2246 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
2247
2248 Default: 1000
2249
2250hb_interval - INTEGER
2251 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks
2252 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
2253 a given path between 2 associations.
2254
2255 Default: 30000
2256
2257sack_timeout - INTEGER
2258 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
2259 to send a SACK.
2260
2261 Default: 200
2262
2263valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
2264 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie
2265 is used during association establishment.
2266
2267 Default: 60000
2268
2269cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
2270 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
2271 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
2272
2273 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
2274 0: Disable
2275
2276 Default: 1
2277
3c68198e
NH
2278cookie_hmac_alg - STRING
2279 Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by
2280 a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk.
2281 Valid values are:
2282 * md5
2283 * sha1
2284 * none
2285 Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the
3b09adcb 2286 configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and
3c68198e
NH
2287 CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1).
2288
2289 Default: Dependent on configuration. MD5 if available, else SHA1 if
2290 available, else none.
2291
32e8d494
VY
2292rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
2293 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
2294 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
2295 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is
2296 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
2297 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
2298 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this,
2299 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
2300 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described
2301 blocking.
2302
2303 1: rcvbuf space is per association
3b09adcb 2304 0: rcvbuf space is per socket
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2305
2306 Default: 0
2307
2308sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
2309 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
2310
2311 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
2312 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
2313
2314 Default: 0
2315
2316sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
2317 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2318
2319 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
2320 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
2321 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
2322
2323 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
2324
2325 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2326
2327 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
2328
2329sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
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2330 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2331 ignored.
2332
2333 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
2334 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2335 under moderate memory pressure.
2336
320bd6de 2337 Default: 4K
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2338
2339sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
a6e1204b 2340 Currently this tunable has no effect.
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2342addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
2343 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
2344
2345 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
2346 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
2347 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
2348 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
2349
2350 Default: 1
2351
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4edc2f34 2353/proc/sys/net/core/*
57043247 2354 Please see: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries.
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2356
2357/proc/sys/net/unix/*
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2358max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
2359 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
2360
2361 Default: 10
2362