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3ip_forward - BOOLEAN
4 0 - disabled (default)
5 not 0 - enabled
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
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)
17
18ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER
19 Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled in mode 1 and a
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.
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
29 Mode 3 is a hardend pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only
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
41 Default: FALSE
42
43min_pmtu - INTEGER
44 default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU
45
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
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
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
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
83
84route/max_size - INTEGER
85 Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase
86 this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
87 From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
88 as route cache is no longer used.
89
90neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
91 Minimum number of entries to keep. Garbage collector will not
92 purge entries if there are fewer than this number.
93 Default: 128
94
95neigh/default/gc_thresh2 - INTEGER
96 Threshold when garbage collector becomes more aggressive about
97 purging entries. Entries older than 5 seconds will be cleared
98 when over this number.
99 Default: 512
100
101neigh/default/gc_thresh3 - INTEGER
102 Maximum number of neighbor entries allowed. Increase this
103 when using large numbers of interfaces and when communicating
104 with large numbers of directly-connected peers.
105 Default: 1024
106
107neigh/default/unres_qlen_bytes - INTEGER
108 The maximum number of bytes which may be used by packets
109 queued for each unresolved address by other network layers.
110 (added in linux 3.3)
111 Setting negative value is meaningless and will return error.
112 Default: SK_WMEM_MAX, (same as net.core.wmem_default).
113 Exact value depends on architecture and kernel options,
114 but should be enough to allow queuing 256 packets
115 of medium size.
116
117neigh/default/unres_qlen - INTEGER
118 The maximum number of packets which may be queued for each
119 unresolved address by other network layers.
120 (deprecated in linux 3.3) : use unres_qlen_bytes instead.
121 Prior to linux 3.3, the default value is 3 which may cause
122 unexpected packet loss. The current default value is calculated
123 according to default value of unres_qlen_bytes and true size of
124 packet.
125 Default: 101
126
127mtu_expires - INTEGER
128 Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
129
130min_adv_mss - INTEGER
131 The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
132 never be lower than this setting.
133
134IP Fragmentation:
135
136ipfrag_high_thresh - LONG INTEGER
137 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments.
138
139ipfrag_low_thresh - LONG INTEGER
140 (Obsolete since linux-4.17)
141 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments before the kernel
142 begins to remove incomplete fragment queues to free up resources.
143 The kernel still accepts new fragments for defragmentation.
144
145ipfrag_time - INTEGER
146 Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
147
148ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
149 ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
150 maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
151 common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
152 not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
153 IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
154 probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
155 have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
156 is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
157 ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
158 address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
159 address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
160 lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
161 started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
162
163 Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
164 result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
165 reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
166 performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
167 likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
168 from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
169 Default: 64
170
171INET peer storage:
172
173inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
174 The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold
175 entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines
176 entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
177 passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
178
179inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
180 Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
181 time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
182 guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
183 Measured in seconds.
184
185inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
186 Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
187 this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
188 when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
189 Measured in seconds.
190
191TCP variables:
192
193somaxconn - INTEGER
194 Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
195 Defaults to 128. See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
196 for TCP sockets.
197
198tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
199 If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
200 reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
201 occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
202 option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
203 cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
204 option can harm clients of your server.
205
206tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
207 Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
208 (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
209 if it is <= 0.
210 Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
211 Default: 1
212
213tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
214 Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
215 processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
216 tcp_available_congestion_control.
217 Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
218
219tcp_app_win - INTEGER
220 Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
221 buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
222 Default: 31
223
224tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN
225 Enable TCP auto corking :
226 When applications do consecutive small write()/sendmsg() system calls,
227 we try to coalesce these small writes as much as possible, to lower
228 total amount of sent packets. This is done if at least one prior
229 packet for the flow is waiting in Qdisc queues or device transmit
230 queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior
231 when they know how/when to uncork their sockets.
232 Default : 1
233
234tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
235 Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
236 More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
237 but not loaded.
238
239tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
240 The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
241 Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled,
242 this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
243
244tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER
245 TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option,
246 as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691.
247 If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss,
248 it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss.
249
250 Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
251
252tcp_congestion_control - STRING
253 Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
254 connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
255 additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
256 Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
257 For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice
258 is inherited.
259 [see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
260
261tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
262 Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
263
264tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER
265 Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail
266 losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that
267 TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below)
268 Possible values:
269 0 disables TLP
270 3 or 4 enables TLP
271 Default: 3
272
273tcp_ecn - INTEGER
274 Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by TCP.
275 ECN is used only when both ends of the TCP connection indicate
276 support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses due
277 to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal
278 congestion before having to drop packets.
279 Possible values are:
280 0 Disable ECN. Neither initiate nor accept ECN.
281 1 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections and
282 also request ECN on outgoing connection attempts.
283 2 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections
284 but do not request ECN on outgoing connections.
285 Default: 2
286
287tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN
288 If the kernel detects that ECN connection misbehaves, enable fall
289 back to non-ECN. Currently, this knob implements the fallback
290 from RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1., but we reserve that in future,
291 additional detection mechanisms could be implemented under this
292 knob. The value is not used, if tcp_ecn or per route (or congestion
293 control) ECN settings are disabled.
294 Default: 1 (fallback enabled)
295
296tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
297 Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
298 The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
299
300tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
301 The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any
302 application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state
303 before it is aborted at the local end. While a perfectly
304 valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an
305 orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait
306 forever for the remote to close its end of the connection.
307 Cf. tcp_max_orphans
308 Default: 60 seconds
309
310tcp_frto - INTEGER
311 Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682.
312 F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
313 timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in networks where the
314 RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only
315 modification. It does not require any support from the peer.
316
317 By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO.
318
319tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER
320 Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments
321 in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing
322 connection but that are invalid due to any of these reasons:
323
324 (a) out-of-window sequence number,
325 (b) out-of-window acknowledgment number, or
326 (c) PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) check failure
327
328 This can help mitigate simple "ack loop" DoS attacks, wherein
329 a buggy or malicious middlebox or man-in-the-middle can
330 rewrite TCP header fields in manner that causes each endpoint
331 to think that the other is sending invalid TCP segments, thus
332 causing each side to send an unterminating stream of duplicate
333 acknowledgments for invalid segments.
334
335 Using 0 disables rate-limiting of dupacks in response to
336 invalid segments; otherwise this value specifies the minimal
337 space between sending such dupacks, in milliseconds.
338
339 Default: 500 (milliseconds).
340
341tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
342 How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
343 Default: 2hours.
344
345tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
346 How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
347 connection is broken. Default value: 9.
348
349tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
350 How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
351 tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
352 after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
353 will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
354
355tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
356 Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index.
357 Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work
358 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets
359 derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in
360 which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was
361 compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
362
363tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
364 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
365
366tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
367 Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
368 held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
369 reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
370 only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
371 or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
372 (probably, after increasing installed memory),
373 if network conditions require more than default value,
374 and tune network services to linger and kill such states
375 more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
376 up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
377
378tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
379 Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which have not
380 received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
381 The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
382 increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
383 If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
384
385tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
386 Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
387 If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
388 and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
389 simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
390 but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
391 if network conditions require more than default value.
392
393tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
394 min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
395 memory appetite.
396
397 pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
398 of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
399 pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
400 under "min".
401
402 max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
403
404 Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
405 memory.
406
407tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER
408 The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT.
409 A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher)
410 minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic
411 engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT
412 inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds.
413 Possible values: 0 - 86400 (1 day)
414 Default: 300
415
416tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
417 If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
418 automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
419 match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by
420 default.
421
422tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
423 Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three
424 values:
425 0 - Disabled
426 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
427 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
428
429tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER
430 Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
431 Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
432 per RFC4821.
433
434tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
435 Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
436 will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
437 is 8 bytes.
438
439tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
440 By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
441 when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
442 near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this
443 increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
444 degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
445 connections.
446
447tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
448 This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
449 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
450 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
451
452 The default value is 8.
453 If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
454 you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
455 may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
456
457tcp_recovery - INTEGER
458 This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery
459 features.
460
461 RACK: 0x1 enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost
462 retransmissions and tail drops.
463
464 Default: 0x1
465
466tcp_reordering - INTEGER
467 Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
468 TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level
469 between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering
470 Default: 3
471
472tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER
473 Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
474 300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it
475 if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode)
476 Default: 300
477
478tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
479 Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
480 On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
481 certain TCP stacks.
482
483tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
484 This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
485 something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
486 and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
487 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
488
489 RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
490 default.
491
492tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
493 This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
494 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
495 Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
496 exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
497 retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
498
499 The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
500 seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
501 TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
502 hypothetical timeout.
503
504 RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
505 which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
506
507tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
508 If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
509 we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
510 assassination.
511 Default: 0
512
513tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
514 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
515 It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
516 pressure.
517 Default: 4K
518
519 default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
520 This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
521 Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
522 default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
523 less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
524
525 max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
526 selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
527 net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
528 automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
529 case this value is ignored.
530 Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
531
532tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
533 Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
534
535tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
536 If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
537 window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
538 the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
539 be timed out after an idle period.
540 Default: 1
541
542tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
543 Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
544 Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
545 Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
546 Default: FALSE
547
548tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
549 Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
550 be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
551 is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission
552 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
553 for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
554
555tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
556 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
557 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
558 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
559 Default: 1
560
561 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
562 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
563 against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
564 in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
565 because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
566 another parameters until this warning disappear.
567 See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
568
569 syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
570 to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
571 of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
572 but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
573 SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
574 is seriously misconfigured.
575
576 If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
577 network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
578 unconditionally generation of syncookies.
579
580tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
581 Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening
582 SYN packet.
583
584 The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client
585 then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag,
586 rather than connect() to send data in SYN.
587
588 The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then
589 either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or
590 enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with
591 the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog.
592
593 The values (bitmap) are
594 0x1: (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
595 0x2: (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in
596 a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the
597 application before 3-way handshake finishes.
598 0x4: (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie
599 availability and without a cookie option.
600 0x200: (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
601 0x400: (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by
602 default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option.
603
604 Default: 0x1
605
606 Note that that additional client or server features are only
607 effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively.
608
609tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER
610 Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets
611 when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens.
612 This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues
613 get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to
614 initial value when the blackhole issue goes away.
615 By default, it is set to 1hr.
616
617tcp_fwmark_accept - BOOLEAN
618 If set, incoming connections to listening sockets that do not have a
619 socket mark will set the mark of the accepting socket to the fwmark of
620 the incoming SYN packet. This will cause all packets on that connection
621 (starting from the first SYNACK) to be sent with that fwmark. The
622 listening socket's mark is unchanged. Listening sockets that already
623 have a fwmark set via setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_MARK, ...) are
624 unaffected.
625 Default: 0
626
627tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
628 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
629 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value
630 is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission
631 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
632 for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
633
634tcp_timestamps - INTEGER
635Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
636 0: Disabled.
637 1: Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323 and use random offset for
638 each connection rather than only using the current time.
639 2: Like 1, but without random offsets.
640 Default: 1
641
642tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER
643 Minimal number of segments per TSO frame.
644 Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames,
645 depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets.
646 For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big
647 TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets
648 if available window is too small.
649 Default: 2
650
651tcp_pacing_ss_ratio - INTEGER
652 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
653 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
654 If TCP is in slow start, tcp_pacing_ss_ratio is applied
655 to let TCP probe for bigger speeds, assuming cwnd can be
656 doubled every other RTT.
657 Default: 200
658
659tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER
660 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
661 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
662 If TCP is in congestion avoidance phase, tcp_pacing_ca_ratio
663 is applied to conservatively probe for bigger throughput.
664 Default: 120
665
666tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
667 This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
668 can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
669 The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
670 building larger TSO frames.
671 Default: 3
672
673tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
674 Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
675 safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
676 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
677 experts.
678
679tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
680 Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
681
682tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
683 min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
684 Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
685 Default: 4K
686
687 default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets. This
688 value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
689 It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
690 Default: 16K
691
692 max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
693 send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
694 net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
695 automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
696 this value is ignored.
697 Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
698
699tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER
700 A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue,
701 thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll()
702 reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per
703 socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will
704 also not add new buffers if the limit is hit.
705
706 This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for
707 sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change
708 to the global variable has immediate effect.
709
710 Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF)
711
712tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
713 If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
714 remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
715 If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
716 not receive a window scaling option from them.
717 Default: 0
718
719tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
720 Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
721 If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
722 determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
723 As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
724 timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
725 initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
726 non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
727 For more information on thin streams, see
728 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
729 Default: 0
730
731tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER
732 Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket.
733 TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it
734 gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can
735 result in a large amount of packets queued in qdisc/device
736 on the local machine, hurting latency of other flows, for
737 typical pfifo_fast qdiscs.
738 tcp_limit_output_bytes limits the number of bytes on qdisc
739 or device to reduce artificial RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat.
740 Default: 262144
741
742tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
743 Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
744 in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
745 Default: 100
746
747UDP variables:
748
749udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
750 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
751 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
752 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
753 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
754 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
755
756udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
757 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
758
759 min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its
760 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds
761 this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage.
762
763 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
764
765 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
766
767 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
768
769udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
770 Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
771 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
772 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
773 Default: 1 page
774
775udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
776 Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
777 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if
778 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
779 Default: 1 page
780
781CIPSOv4 Variables:
782
783cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
784 If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
785 cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
786 miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
787 invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
788 off and the cache will always be "safe".
789 Default: 1
790
791cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
792 The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
793 hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits
794 the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
795 more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of
796 entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
797 causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
798 Default: 10
799
800cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
801 Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
802 the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
803 This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
804 categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
805 Default: 0
806
807cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
808 If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
809 ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during
810 ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
811 where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
812 result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
813 with other implementations that require strict checking.
814 Default: 0
815
816IP Variables:
817
818ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
819 Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
820 choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
821 second the last local port number.
822 If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity.
823 (one even and one odd values)
824 The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively.
825
826ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
827 Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
828 applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
829 assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
830 number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
831
832 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
833 list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
834 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
835 ports and update the current list with the one given in the
836 input.
837
838 Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
839 settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
840 when determining which ports are available for automatic port
841 assignments.
842
843 You can reserve ports which are not in the current
844 ip_local_port_range, e.g.:
845
846 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
847 32000 60999
848 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
849 8080,9148
850
851 although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
852 if later the port range is changed to a value that will
853 include the reserved ports.
854
855 Default: Empty
856
857ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER
858 This is a per-namespace sysctl. It defines the first
859 unprivileged port in the network namespace. Privileged ports
860 require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them.
861 To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0. It may not
862 overlap with the ip_local_reserved_ports range.
863
864 Default: 1024
865
866ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
867 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
868 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
869 Default: 0
870
871ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
872 If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
873 If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
874 message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
875 occurs.
876 Default: 0
877
878ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN
879 Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for
880 certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this
881 for established TCP and connected UDP sockets.
882
883 It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that
884 reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it.
885 Default: 1
886
887tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
888 Enable early demux for established TCP sockets.
889 Default: 1
890
891udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
892 Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if
893 your system could experience more unconnected load.
894 Default: 1
895
896icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
897 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
898 requests sent to it.
899 Default: 0
900
901icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
902 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
903 TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
904 Default: 1
905
906icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
907 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
908 icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
909 0 to disable any limiting,
910 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
911 Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number
912 of ICMP packets sent on all targets.
913 Default: 1000
914
915icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER
916 Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host.
917 Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are
918 controlled by this limit.
919 Default: 1000
920
921icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER
922 icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second,
923 while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets.
924 Default: 50
925
926icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
927 Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
928 Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
929 Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168)
930
931 Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
932 0 Echo Reply
933 3 Destination Unreachable *
934 4 Source Quench *
935 5 Redirect
936 8 Echo Request
937 B Time Exceeded *
938 C Parameter Problem *
939 D Timestamp Request
940 E Timestamp Reply
941 F Info Request
942 G Info Reply
943 H Address Mask Request
944 I Address Mask Reply
945
946 * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
947
948icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
949 Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
950 frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
951 If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
952 will avoid log file clutter.
953 Default: 1
954
955icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
956
957 If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
958 the exiting interface.
959
960 If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
961 the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
962 This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
963 a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
964 much easier.
965
966 Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
967 then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
968 has one will be used regardless of this setting.
969
970 Default: 0
971
972igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
973 Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
974 Default: 20
975
976 Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
977 report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
978 datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
979 intend to).
980
981 The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group
982 report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
983
984 M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
985
986 Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
987 So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
988
989 (65536-24) / 12 = 5459
990
991 The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
992 this number may be lower.
993
994igmp_max_msf - INTEGER
995 Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a
996 multicast group.
997 Default: 10
998
999igmp_qrv - INTEGER
1000 Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1).
1001 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1)
1002 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1003
1004force_igmp_version - INTEGER
1005 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback
1006 allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier
1007 Present timer expires.
1008 1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if
1009 receive IGMPv2/v3 query.
1010 2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive
1011 IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query.
1012 3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0.
1013
1014 Note: this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376
1015 Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could
1016 ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make
1017 this value as default 0 is recommended.
1018
1019conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where
1020"interface" is the name of your network interface)
1021
1022conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
1023
1024log_martians - BOOLEAN
1025 Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
1026 log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1027 conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
1028 it will be disabled otherwise
1029
1030accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1031 Accept ICMP redirect messages.
1032 accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
1033 - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
1034 forwarding for the interface is enabled
1035 or
1036 - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
1037 case forwarding for the interface is disabled
1038 accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
1039 default TRUE (host)
1040 FALSE (router)
1041
1042forwarding - BOOLEAN
1043 Enable IP forwarding on this interface. This controls whether packets
1044 received _on_ this interface can be forwarded.
1045
1046mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
1047 Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
1048 and a multicast routing daemon is required.
1049 conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
1050 routing for the interface
1051
1052medium_id - INTEGER
1053 Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
1054 are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
1055 the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
1056 The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
1057 to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
1058
1059 Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
1060 the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
1061 two devices attached to different media.
1062
1063proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
1064 Do proxy arp.
1065 proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1066 conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
1067 it will be disabled otherwise
1068
1069proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
1070 Private VLAN proxy arp.
1071 Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
1072 (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
1073
1074 This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
1075 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
1076 communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
1077 the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
1078 to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
1079 router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
1080 proxy_arp.
1081
1082 This technology is known by different names:
1083 In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
1084 Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
1085 Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
1086 Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
1087
1088shared_media - BOOLEAN
1089 Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
1090 Overrides secure_redirects.
1091 shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1092 conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
1093 it will be disabled otherwise
1094 default TRUE
1095
1096secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
1097 Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the
1098 interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect
1099 rules still apply.
1100 Overridden by shared_media.
1101 secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1102 conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
1103 it will be disabled otherwise
1104 default TRUE
1105
1106send_redirects - BOOLEAN
1107 Send redirects, if router.
1108 send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1109 conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
1110 it will be disabled otherwise
1111 Default: TRUE
1112
1113bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
1114 Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
1115 not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
1116 BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
1117 conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
1118 for the interface
1119 default FALSE
1120 Not Implemented Yet.
1121
1122accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
1123 Accept packets with SRR option.
1124 conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
1125 with SRR option on the interface
1126 default TRUE (router)
1127 FALSE (host)
1128
1129accept_local - BOOLEAN
1130 Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
1131 suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
1132 local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
1133 default FALSE
1134
1135route_localnet - BOOLEAN
1136 Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination
1137 while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes.
1138 default FALSE
1139
1140rp_filter - INTEGER
1141 0 - No source validation.
1142 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
1143 Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
1144 is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
1145 By default failed packets are discarded.
1146 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
1147 Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
1148 and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
1149 the packet check will fail.
1150
1151 Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
1152 to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
1153 or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
1154
1155 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
1156 when doing source validation on the {interface}.
1157
1158 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
1159 in startup scripts.
1160
1161arp_filter - BOOLEAN
1162 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
1163 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
1164 based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
1165 the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
1166 based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
1167 of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
1168
1169 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
1170 from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
1171 sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
1172 IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
1173 particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
1174 balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
1175
1176 arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1177 conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
1178 it will be disabled otherwise
1179
1180arp_announce - INTEGER
1181 Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
1182 source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
1183 interface:
1184 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
1185 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
1186 subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
1187 hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
1188 address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
1189 configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
1190 request we will check all our subnets that include the
1191 target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
1192 such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
1193 address according to the rules for level 2.
1194 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
1195 In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
1196 and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
1197 the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
1198 for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
1199 interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
1200 local address is found we select the first local address
1201 we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
1202 with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
1203 even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
1204
1205 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
1206
1207 Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
1208 receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
1209 the level announces more valid sender's information.
1210
1211arp_ignore - INTEGER
1212 Define different modes for sending replies in response to
1213 received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
1214 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
1215 on any interface
1216 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1217 configured on the incoming interface
1218 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1219 configured on the incoming interface and both with the
1220 sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
1221 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
1222 only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
1223 4-7 - reserved
1224 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
1225
1226 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
1227 when ARP request is received on the {interface}
1228
1229arp_notify - BOOLEAN
1230 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1231 0 - (default): do nothing
1232 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
1233 or hardware address changes.
1234
1235arp_accept - BOOLEAN
1236 Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not
1237 already present in the ARP table:
1238 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
1239 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
1240
1241 Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
1242 ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
1243
1244 If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
1245 gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
1246 if this setting is on or off.
1247
1248mcast_solicit - INTEGER
1249 The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state,
1250 when the associated hardware address is unknown. Defaults
1251 to 3.
1252
1253ucast_solicit - INTEGER
1254 The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when
1255 the hardware address is being reconfirmed. Defaults to 3.
1256
1257app_solicit - INTEGER
1258 The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
1259 via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
1260 mcast_resolicit). Defaults to 0.
1261
1262mcast_resolicit - INTEGER
1263 The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and
1264 app probes in PROBE state. Defaults to 0.
1265
1266disable_policy - BOOLEAN
1267 Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
1268
1269disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
1270 Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
1271
1272igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1273 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1274 IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place.
1275 Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1276
1277igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1278 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1279 IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place.
1280 Default: 1000 (1 seconds)
1281
1282promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN
1283 When a primary IP address is removed from this interface
1284 promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of
1285 removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses.
1286
1287drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1288 Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer
1289 multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1290 This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC
1291 1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons.
1292 Default: off (0)
1293
1294drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN
1295 Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known
1296 good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1297 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1298 Default: off (0)
1299
1300
1301tag - INTEGER
1302 Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
1303 Default value is 0.
1304
1305xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1306 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4
1307 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will
1308 refuse new allocations.
1309
1310igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN
1311 Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the
1312 224.0.0.X range.
1313 Default TRUE
1314
1315Alexey Kuznetsov.
1316kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
1317
1318Updated by:
1319Andi Kleen
1320ak@muc.de
1321Nicolas Delon
1322delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
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1325
1326
1327/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
1328
1329IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
1330apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
1331
1332bindv6only - BOOLEAN
1333 Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
1334 which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
1335 only.
1336 TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
1337 FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
1338
1339 Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
1340
1341flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN
1342 Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label.
1343 You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the
1344 flow label manager.
1345 TRUE: enabled
1346 FALSE: disabled
1347 Default: TRUE
1348
1349auto_flowlabels - INTEGER
1350 Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the
1351 packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to
1352 identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath
1353 Routing (see RFC 6438).
1354 0: automatic flow labels are completely disabled
1355 1: automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be
1356 disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL
1357 socket option
1358 2: automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a
1359 per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option
1360 3: automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot
1361 be disabled by the socket option
1362 Default: 1
1363
1364flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN
1365 Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is
1366 reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF
1367 is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437.
1368 TRUE: enabled
1369 FALSE: disabled
1370 Default: true
1371
1372flowlabel_reflect - BOOLEAN
1373 Automatically reflect the flow label. Needed for Path MTU
1374 Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast
1375 environments. See RFC 7690 and:
1376 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01
1377 TRUE: enabled
1378 FALSE: disabled
1379 Default: FALSE
1380
1381anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN
1382 Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6
1383 echo reply
1384 TRUE: enabled
1385 FALSE: disabled
1386 Default: FALSE
1387
1388idgen_delay - INTEGER
1389 Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry
1390 privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is
1391 detected.
1392 Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217)
1393
1394idgen_retries - INTEGER
1395 Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy
1396 address if a DAD conflict is detected.
1397 Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217)
1398
1399mld_qrv - INTEGER
1400 Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1).
1401 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1)
1402 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1403
1404IPv6 Fragmentation:
1405
1406ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
1407 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
1408 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
1409 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
1410 is reached.
1411
1412ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
1413 See ip6frag_high_thresh
1414
1415ip6frag_time - INTEGER
1416 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
1417
1418conf/default/*:
1419 Change the interface-specific default settings.
1420
1421
1422conf/all/*:
1423 Change all the interface-specific settings.
1424
1425 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
1426
1427conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
1428 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
1429
1430 IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
1431 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
1432
1433 This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
1434 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details.
1435
1436 This referred to as global forwarding.
1437
1438proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
1439 Do proxy ndp.
1440
1441fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
1442 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not
1443 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies).
1444 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
1445 fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
1446 Default: 0
1447
1448conf/interface/*:
1449 Change special settings per interface.
1450
1451 The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
1452 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
1453
1454accept_ra - INTEGER
1455 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
1456
1457 It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
1458 Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
1459 accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
1460 transmitted.
1461
1462 Possible values are:
1463 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements.
1464 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
1465 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
1466 even if forwarding is enabled.
1467
1468 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1469 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1470
1471accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
1472 Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
1473
1474 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1475 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1476
1477accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN
1478 Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine
1479 if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted.
1480 Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended
1481 network loop.
1482
1483 Functional default:
1484 enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled
1485 on a specific interface.
1486 disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled
1487 on a specific interface.
1488
1489accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER
1490 Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement.
1491
1492 Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this
1493 variable shall be ignored.
1494
1495 Default: 1
1496
1497accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
1498 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
1499
1500 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1501 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1502
1503accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER
1504 Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1505
1506 Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall
1507 be ignored.
1508
1509 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1510 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1511
1512accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
1513 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1514
1515 Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall
1516 be ignored.
1517
1518 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1519 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1520
1521accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
1522 Accept Router Preference in RA.
1523
1524 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1525 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1526
1527accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
1528 Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
1529 disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
1530
1531 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1532 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1533
1534accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1535 Accept Redirects.
1536
1537 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1538 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1539
1540accept_source_route - INTEGER
1541 Accept source routing (routing extension header).
1542
1543 >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
1544 < 0: Do not accept routing header.
1545
1546 Default: 0
1547
1548autoconf - BOOLEAN
1549 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
1550 Advertisements.
1551
1552 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
1553 disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
1554
1555dad_transmits - INTEGER
1556 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
1557 Default: 1
1558
1559forwarding - INTEGER
1560 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
1561
1562 Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
1563 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
1564
1565 Possible values are:
1566 0 Forwarding disabled
1567 1 Forwarding enabled
1568
1569 FALSE (0):
1570
1571 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
1572
1573 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1574 2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
1575 Solicitations.
1576 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
1577 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
1578 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
1579
1580 TRUE (1):
1581
1582 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
1583 This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1584
1585 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1586 2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
1587 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
1588 4. Redirects are ignored.
1589
1590 Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
1591 otherwise 1 (enabled).
1592
1593hop_limit - INTEGER
1594 Default Hop Limit to set.
1595 Default: 64
1596
1597mtu - INTEGER
1598 Default Maximum Transfer Unit
1599 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
1600
1601ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
1602 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses,
1603 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
1604 Default: 0
1605
1606router_probe_interval - INTEGER
1607 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
1608 in RFC4191.
1609
1610 Default: 60
1611
1612router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
1613 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
1614 before sending Router Solicitations.
1615 Default: 1
1616
1617router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
1618 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
1619 Default: 4
1620
1621router_solicitations - INTEGER
1622 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
1623 routers are present.
1624 Default: 3
1625
1626use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN
1627 When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations
1628 routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
1629 configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
1630
1631 Default: false
1632
1633use_tempaddr - INTEGER
1634 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
1635 <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
1636 == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
1637 addresses over temporary addresses.
1638 > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
1639 addresses over public addresses.
1640 Default: 0 (for most devices)
1641 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
1642
1643temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
1644 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1645 Default: 604800 (7 days)
1646
1647temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
1648 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1649 Default: 86400 (1 day)
1650
1651keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER
1652 Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static
1653 global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed.
1654 >0 : enabled
1655 0 : system default
1656 <0 : disabled
1657
1658 Default: 0 (addresses are removed)
1659
1660max_desync_factor - INTEGER
1661 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
1662 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
1663 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
1664 value is in seconds.
1665 Default: 600
1666
1667regen_max_retry - INTEGER
1668 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
1669 valid temporary addresses.
1670 Default: 5
1671
1672max_addresses - INTEGER
1673 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting
1674 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this
1675 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
1676 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
1677 Default: 16
1678
1679disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
1680 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
1681 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
1682 address.
1683 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
1684
1685 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
1686 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
1687 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
1688
1689 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
1690 it will dynamically delete all address on the given interface.
1691
1692accept_dad - INTEGER
1693 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
1694 0: Disable DAD
1695 1: Enable DAD (default)
1696 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
1697 link-local address has been found.
1698
1699 DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according
1700 to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad.
1701
1702force_tllao - BOOLEAN
1703 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
1704 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
1705 Default: FALSE
1706
1707 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
1708
1709 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
1710 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
1711 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
1712 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
1713 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
1714 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
1715 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
1716 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
1717 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
1718 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
1719
1720ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN
1721 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1722 0 - (default): do nothing
1723 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought
1724 up or hardware address changes.
1725
1726mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1727 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1728 MLDv1 report retransmit will take place.
1729 Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1730
1731mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1732 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1733 MLDv2 report retransmit will take place.
1734 Default: 1000 (1 second)
1735
1736force_mld_version - INTEGER
1737 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed
1738 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1
1739 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2
1740
1741suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER
1742 Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation
1743 with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior:
1744 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1745 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1746
1747optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN
1748 Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429).
1749 0: disabled (default)
1750 1: enabled
1751
1752 Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled
1753 if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1,
1754 it will be disabled otherwise.
1755
1756use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
1757 If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during
1758 source address selection. Preferred addresses will still be chosen
1759 before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source
1760 address selection algorithm.
1761 0: disabled (default)
1762 1: enabled
1763
1764 This will be enabled if at least one of
1765 conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise.
1766
1767stable_secret - IPv6 address
1768 This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6
1769 addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured
1770 ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will
1771 be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the
1772 addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the
1773 secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can
1774 overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused.
1775
1776 It is recommended to generate this secret during installation
1777 of a system and keep it stable after that.
1778
1779 By default the stable secret is unset.
1780
1781drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1782 Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer
1783 multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1784
1785 By default this is turned off.
1786
1787drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
1788 Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
1789 a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1790 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1791
1792 By default this is turned off.
1793
1794enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN
1795 Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for
1796 duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal
1797 a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false
1798 detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send.
1799 The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of
1800 conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE.
1801 Default: TRUE
1802
1803icmp/*:
1804ratelimit - INTEGER
1805 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
1806 0 to disable any limiting,
1807 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1808 Default: 1000
1809
1810xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1811 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6
1812 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will
1813 refuse new allocations.
1814
1815
1816IPv6 Update by:
1817Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
1818YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
1819
1820
1821/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
1822
1823bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
1824 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
1825 0 : disable this.
1826 Default: 1
1827
1828bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
1829 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
1830 0 : disable this.
1831 Default: 1
1832
1833bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
1834 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
1835 0 : disable this.
1836 Default: 1
1837
1838bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
1839 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
1840 0 : disable this.
1841 Default: 0
1842
1843bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
1844 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
1845 0 : disable this.
1846 Default: 0
1847
1848bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
1849 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
1850 interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the vlan.
1851 This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the REDIRECT
1852 target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces. When no matching
1853 vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input device is
1854 set to the bridge interface.
1855 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
1856 Default: 0
1857
1858proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
1859
1860addip_enable - BOOLEAN
1861 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1862 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides
1863 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
1864 associations.
1865
1866 1: Enable extension.
1867
1868 0: Disable extension.
1869
1870 Default: 0
1871
1872pf_enable - INTEGER
1873 Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value
1874 of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of
1875 both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state.
1876 Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace
1877 application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of
1878 pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans
1879 or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is
1880 enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable
1881 and disable pf state. See:
1882 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for
1883 details.
1884
1885 1: Enable pf.
1886
1887 0: Disable pf.
1888
1889 Default: 1
1890
1891addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
1892 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
1893 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
1894 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
1895 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older
1896 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
1897 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability,
1898 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
1899 authentication requirement.
1900
1901 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This
1902 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
1903 with older implementations.
1904
1905 0: Enforce the authentication requirement
1906
1907 Default: 0
1908
1909auth_enable - BOOLEAN
1910 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension
1911 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
1912 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1913 (ADD-IP) extension.
1914
1915 1: Enable this extension.
1916 0: Disable this extension.
1917
1918 Default: 0
1919
1920prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
1921 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
1922 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
1923
1924 1: Enable extension
1925 0: Disable
1926
1927 Default: 1
1928
1929max_burst - INTEGER
1930 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It
1931 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
1932
1933 Default: 4
1934
1935association_max_retrans - INTEGER
1936 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
1937 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value
1938 is exceeded, the association is terminated.
1939
1940 Default: 10
1941
1942max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
1943 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
1944 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
1945 unreachable and terminating.
1946
1947 Default: 8
1948
1949path_max_retrans - INTEGER
1950 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
1951 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
1952 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
1953 association is multihomed.
1954
1955 Default: 5
1956
1957pf_retrans - INTEGER
1958 The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path
1959 before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one
1960 exist). Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that
1961 passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used. Its only
1962 deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack. This
1963 setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without
1964 having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See:
1965 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt
1966 for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans
1967 disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can
1968 be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to
1969 disable pf state.
1970
1971 Default: 0
1972
1973rto_initial - INTEGER
1974 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
1975 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval
1976 for retransmissions.
1977
1978 Default: 3000
1979
1980rto_max - INTEGER
1981 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
1982 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
1983
1984 Default: 60000
1985
1986rto_min - INTEGER
1987 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
1988 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
1989
1990 Default: 1000
1991
1992hb_interval - INTEGER
1993 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks
1994 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
1995 a given path between 2 associations.
1996
1997 Default: 30000
1998
1999sack_timeout - INTEGER
2000 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
2001 to send a SACK.
2002
2003 Default: 200
2004
2005valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
2006 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie
2007 is used during association establishment.
2008
2009 Default: 60000
2010
2011cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
2012 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
2013 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
2014
2015 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
2016 0: Disable
2017
2018 Default: 1
2019
2020cookie_hmac_alg - STRING
2021 Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by
2022 a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk.
2023 Valid values are:
2024 * md5
2025 * sha1
2026 * none
2027 Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the
2028 configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and
2029 CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1).
2030
2031 Default: Dependent on configuration. MD5 if available, else SHA1 if
2032 available, else none.
2033
2034rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
2035 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
2036 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
2037 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is
2038 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
2039 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
2040 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this,
2041 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
2042 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described
2043 blocking.
2044
2045 1: rcvbuf space is per association
2046 0: rcvbuf space is per socket
2047
2048 Default: 0
2049
2050sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
2051 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
2052
2053 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
2054 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
2055
2056 Default: 0
2057
2058sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
2059 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2060
2061 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
2062 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
2063 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
2064
2065 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
2066
2067 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2068
2069 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
2070
2071sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2072 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2073 ignored.
2074
2075 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
2076 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2077 under moderate memory pressure.
2078
2079 Default: 1 page
2080
2081sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2082 Currently this tunable has no effect.
2083
2084addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
2085 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
2086
2087 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
2088 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
2089 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
2090 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
2091
2092 Default: 1
2093
2094
2095/proc/sys/net/core/*
2096 Please see: Documentation/sysctl/net.txt for descriptions of these entries.
2097
2098
2099/proc/sys/net/unix/*
2100max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
2101 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
2102
2103 Default: 10
2104
2105
2106UNDOCUMENTED:
2107
2108/proc/sys/net/irda/*
2109 fast_poll_increase FIXME
2110 warn_noreply_time FIXME
2111 discovery_slots FIXME
2112 slot_timeout FIXME
2113 max_baud_rate FIXME
2114 discovery_timeout FIXME
2115 lap_keepalive_time FIXME
2116 max_noreply_time FIXME
2117 max_tx_data_size FIXME
2118 max_tx_window FIXME
2119 min_tx_turn_time FIXME