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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index dd2b12a32b73..c7952ac5bd2f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -178,6 +178,27 @@ min_adv_mss - INTEGER The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will never be lower than this setting. +fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER + Whether to emit RTM_NEWROUTE notifications whenever RTM_F_OFFLOAD/ + RTM_F_TRAP/RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flags are changed. + + After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an + acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel, + but not necessarily in hardware. + It is also possible for a route already installed in hardware to change + its action and therefore its flags. For example, a host route that is + trapping packets can be "promoted" to perform decapsulation following + the installation of an IPinIP/VXLAN tunnel. + The notifications will indicate to user-space the state of the route. + + Default: 0 (Do not emit notifications.) + + Possible values: + + - 0 - Do not emit notifications. + - 1 - Emit notifications. + - 2 - Emit notifications only for RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag change. + IP Fragmentation: ipfrag_high_thresh - LONG INTEGER @@ -630,16 +651,15 @@ tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets. This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols. - Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with - default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit - less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables. + Default: 131072 bytes. + This value results in initial window of 65535. max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which case this value is ignored. - Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size. + Default: between 131072 and 6MB, depending on RAM size. tcp_sack - BOOLEAN Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS). @@ -1196,7 +1216,7 @@ icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error. - This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from + This is the behaviour many network administrators will expect from a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts much easier. @@ -1425,6 +1445,25 @@ rp_filter - INTEGER Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it in startup scripts. +src_valid_mark - BOOLEAN + - 0 - The fwmark of the packet is not included in reverse path + route lookup. This allows for asymmetric routing configurations + utilizing the fwmark in only one direction, e.g., transparent + proxying. + + - 1 - The fwmark of the packet is included in reverse path route + lookup. This permits rp_filter to function when the fwmark is + used for routing traffic in both directions. + + This setting also affects the utilization of fmwark when + performing source address selection for ICMP replies, or + determining addresses stored for the IPOPT_TS_TSANDADDR and + IPOPT_RR IP options. + + The max value from conf/{all,interface}/src_valid_mark is used. + + Default value is 0. + arp_filter - BOOLEAN - 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered @@ -1775,6 +1814,27 @@ nexthop_compat_mode - BOOLEAN and extraneous notifications. Default: true (backward compat mode) +fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER + Whether to emit RTM_NEWROUTE notifications whenever RTM_F_OFFLOAD/ + RTM_F_TRAP/RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flags are changed. + + After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an + acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel, + but not necessarily in hardware. + It is also possible for a route already installed in hardware to change + its action and therefore its flags. For example, a host route that is + trapping packets can be "promoted" to perform decapsulation following + the installation of an IPinIP/VXLAN tunnel. + The notifications will indicate to user-space the state of the route. + + Default: 0 (Do not emit notifications.) + + Possible values: + + - 0 - Do not emit notifications. + - 1 - Emit notifications. + - 2 - Emit notifications only for RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag change. + IPv6 Fragmentation: ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER @@ -1807,12 +1867,24 @@ seg6_flowlabel - INTEGER ``conf/default/*``: Change the interface-specific default settings. + These settings would be used during creating new interfaces. + ``conf/all/*``: Change all the interface-specific settings. [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?] +conf/all/disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN + Changing this value is same as changing ``conf/default/disable_ipv6`` + setting and also all per-interface ``disable_ipv6`` settings to the same + value. + + Reading this value does not have any particular meaning. It does not say + whether IPv6 support is enabled or disabled. Returned value can be 1 + also in the case when some interface has ``disable_ipv6`` set to 0 and + has configured IPv6 addresses. + conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces. @@ -1871,6 +1943,16 @@ accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN - enabled if accept_ra is enabled. - disabled if accept_ra is disabled. +ra_defrtr_metric - UNSIGNED INTEGER + Route metric for default route learned in Router Advertisement. This value + will be assigned as metric for the default route learned via IPv6 Router + Advertisement. Takes affect only if accept_ra_defrtr is enabled. + + Possible values: + 1 to 0xFFFFFFFF + + Default: IP6_RT_PRIO_USER i.e. 1024. + accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted. |