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@@ -15,6 +15,30 @@ amemthresh - INTEGER
enabled and the variable is automatically set to 2, otherwise
the strategy is disabled and the variable is set to 1.
+backup_only - BOOLEAN
+ 0 - disabled (default)
+ not 0 - enabled
+
+ If set, disable the director function while the server is
+ in backup mode to avoid packet loops for DR/TUN methods.
+
+conntrack - BOOLEAN
+ 0 - disabled (default)
+ not 0 - enabled
+
+ If set, maintain connection tracking entries for
+ connections handled by IPVS.
+
+ This should be enabled if connections handled by IPVS are to be
+ also handled by stateful firewall rules. That is, iptables rules
+ that make use of connection tracking. It is a performance
+ optimisation to disable this setting otherwise.
+
+ Connections handled by the IPVS FTP application module
+ will have connection tracking entries regardless of this setting.
+
+ Only available when IPVS is compiled with CONFIG_IP_VS_NFCT enabled.
+
cache_bypass - BOOLEAN
0 - disabled (default)
not 0 - enabled
@@ -39,7 +63,7 @@ debug_level - INTEGER
11 - IPVS packet handling (ip_vs_in/ip_vs_out)
12 or more - packet traversal
- Only available when IPVS is compiled with the CONFIG_IPVS_DEBUG
+ Only available when IPVS is compiled with CONFIG_IP_VS_DEBUG enabled.
Higher debugging levels include the messages for lower debugging
levels, so setting debug level 2, includes level 0, 1 and 2
@@ -123,13 +147,11 @@ nat_icmp_send - BOOLEAN
secure_tcp - INTEGER
0 - disabled (default)
- The secure_tcp defense is to use a more complicated state
- transition table and some possible short timeouts of each
- state. In the VS/NAT, it delays the entering the ESTABLISHED
- until the real server starts to send data and ACK packet
- (after 3-way handshake).
+ The secure_tcp defense is to use a more complicated TCP state
+ transition table. For VS/NAT, it also delays entering the
+ TCP ESTABLISHED state until the three way handshake is completed.
- The value definition is the same as that of drop_entry or
+ The value definition is the same as that of drop_entry and
drop_packet.
sync_threshold - INTEGER
@@ -141,3 +163,49 @@ sync_threshold - INTEGER
synchronized, every time the number of its incoming packets
modulus 50 equals the threshold. The range of the threshold is
from 0 to 49.
+
+snat_reroute - BOOLEAN
+ 0 - disabled
+ not 0 - enabled (default)
+
+ If enabled, recalculate the route of SNATed packets from
+ realservers so that they are routed as if they originate from the
+ director. Otherwise they are routed as if they are forwarded by the
+ director.
+
+ If policy routing is in effect then it is possible that the route
+ of a packet originating from a director is routed differently to a
+ packet being forwarded by the director.
+
+ If policy routing is not in effect then the recalculated route will
+ always be the same as the original route so it is an optimisation
+ to disable snat_reroute and avoid the recalculation.
+
+sync_persist_mode - INTEGER
+ default 0
+
+ Controls the synchronisation of connections when using persistence
+
+ 0: All types of connections are synchronised
+ 1: Attempt to reduce the synchronisation traffic depending on
+ the connection type. For persistent services avoid synchronisation
+ for normal connections, do it only for persistence templates.
+ In such case, for TCP and SCTP it may need enabling sloppy_tcp and
+ sloppy_sctp flags on backup servers. For non-persistent services
+ such optimization is not applied, mode 0 is assumed.
+
+sync_version - INTEGER
+ default 1
+
+ The version of the synchronisation protocol used when sending
+ synchronisation messages.
+
+ 0 selects the original synchronisation protocol (version 0). This
+ should be used when sending synchronisation messages to a legacy
+ system that only understands the original synchronisation protocol.
+
+ 1 selects the current synchronisation protocol (version 1). This
+ should be used where possible.
+
+ Kernels with this sync_version entry are able to receive messages
+ of both version 1 and version 2 of the synchronisation protocol.