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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 8a984e994e6..5de03740cdd 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -15,17 +15,47 @@ ip_default_ttl - INTEGER forwarded) IP packets. Should be between 1 and 255 inclusive. Default: 64 (as recommended by RFC1700) -ip_no_pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN - Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled and a +ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER + Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled in mode 1 and a fragmentation-required ICMP is received, the PMTU to this destination will be set to min_pmtu (see below). You will need to raise min_pmtu to the smallest interface MTU on your system manually if you want to avoid locally generated fragments. + + In mode 2 incoming Path MTU Discovery messages will be + discarded. Outgoing frames are handled the same as in mode 1, + implicitly setting IP_PMTUDISC_DONT on every created socket. + + Mode 3 is a hardend pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only + accept fragmentation-needed errors if the underlying protocol + can verify them besides a plain socket lookup. Current + protocols for which pmtu events will be honored are TCP, SCTP + and DCCP as they verify e.g. the sequence number or the + association. This mode should not be enabled globally but is + only intended to secure e.g. name servers in namespaces where + TCP path mtu must still work but path MTU information of other + protocols should be discarded. If enabled globally this mode + could break other protocols. + + Possible values: 0-3 Default: FALSE min_pmtu - INTEGER default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU +ip_forward_use_pmtu - BOOLEAN + By default we don't trust protocol path MTUs while forwarding + because they could be easily forged and can lead to unwanted + fragmentation by the router. + You only need to enable this if you have user-space software + which tries to discover path mtus by itself and depends on the + kernel honoring this information. This is normally not the + case. + Default: 0 (disabled) + Possible values: + 0 - disabled + 1 - enabled + route/max_size - INTEGER Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes. @@ -160,6 +190,16 @@ tcp_app_win - INTEGER buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved. Default: 31 +tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN + Enable TCP auto corking : + When applications do consecutive small write()/sendmsg() system calls, + we try to coalesce these small writes as much as possible, to lower + total amount of sent packets. This is done if at least one prior + packet for the flow is waiting in Qdisc queues or device transmit + queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior + when they know how/when to uncork their sockets. + Default : 1 + tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered. More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules, @@ -1078,6 +1118,21 @@ bindv6only - BOOLEAN Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493) +flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN + Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label. + You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the + flow label manager. + TRUE: enabled + FALSE: disabled + Default: TRUE + +anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN + Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6 + echo reply + TRUE: enabled + FALSE: disabled + Default: FALSE + IPv6 Fragmentation: ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER |