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| author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2026-02-23 19:17:42 +0300 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-02-25 04:50:12 +0300 |
| commit | 64db5933c7adcdc4dd8f5ef6506cc998ecbe63ac (patch) | |
| tree | b73a1f2e25d449658de0e3814b7cb8795b387827 /Documentation | |
| parent | 539a6cf0844da56c32513b86305a7327760f9932 (diff) | |
| download | linux-64db5933c7adcdc4dd8f5ef6506cc998ecbe63ac.tar.xz | |
icmp: increase net.ipv4.icmp_msgs_{per_sec,burst}
These sysctls were added in 4cdf507d5452 ("icmp: add a global rate
limitation") and their default values might be too small.
Some network tools send probes to closed UDP ports from many hosts
to estimate proportion of packet drops on a particular target.
This patch sets both sysctls to 10000.
Note the per-peer rate-limit (as described in RFC 4443 2.4 (f))
intent is still enforced.
This also increases security, see b38e7819cae9
("icmp: randomize the global rate limiter") for reference.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223161742.929830-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index 9c90333530fa..d1eeb5323af0 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -1758,14 +1758,14 @@ icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER controlled by this limit. For security reasons, the precise count of messages per second is randomized. - Default: 1000 + Default: 10000 icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second, - while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets. + while icmp_msgs_burst controls the token bucket size. For security reasons, the precise burst size is randomized. - Default: 50 + Default: 10000 icmp_ratemask - INTEGER Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited. |