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- /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables:
- ip_forward - BOOLEAN
- 0 - disabled (default)
- not 0 - enabled
- Forward Packets between interfaces.
- This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
- parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
- for routers)
- ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
- Default value of TTL field (Time To Live) for outgoing (but not
- forwarded) IP packets. Should be between 1 and 255 inclusive.
- Default: 64 (as recommended by RFC1700)
- ip_no_pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN
- Disable Path MTU Discovery.
- default FALSE
- min_pmtu - INTEGER
- default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU
- fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
- Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv4 reply packets that are not
- associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMP echo replies).
- If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
- fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
- Default: 0
- route/max_size - INTEGER
- Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase
- this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
- neigh/default/gc_thresh3 - INTEGER
- Maximum number of neighbor entries allowed. Increase this
- when using large numbers of interfaces and when communicating
- with large numbers of directly-connected peers.
- neigh/default/unres_qlen_bytes - INTEGER
- The maximum number of bytes which may be used by packets
- queued for each unresolved address by other network layers.
- (added in linux 3.3)
- neigh/default/unres_qlen - INTEGER
- The maximum number of packets which may be queued for each
- unresolved address by other network layers.
- (deprecated in linux 3.3) : use unres_qlen_bytes instead.
- mtu_expires - INTEGER
- Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
- min_adv_mss - INTEGER
- The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
- never be lower than this setting.
- rt_cache_rebuild_count - INTEGER
- The per net-namespace route cache emergency rebuild threshold.
- Any net-namespace having its route cache rebuilt due to
- a hash bucket chain being too long more than this many times
- will have its route caching disabled
- IP Fragmentation:
- ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER
- Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When
- ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
- the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh
- is reached.
- ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER
- See ipfrag_high_thresh
- ipfrag_time - INTEGER
- Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
- ipfrag_secret_interval - INTEGER
- Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
- for the hash secret) for IP fragments.
- Default: 600
- ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
- ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
- maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
- common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
- not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
- IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
- probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
- have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
- is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
- ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
- address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
- address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
- lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
- started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
- Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
- result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
- reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
- performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
- likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
- from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
- Default: 64
- INET peer storage:
- inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
- The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold
- entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines
- entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
- passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
- inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
- Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
- time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
- guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
- Measured in seconds.
- inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
- Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
- this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
- when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
- Measured in seconds.
- TCP variables:
- somaxconn - INTEGER
- Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
- Defaults to 128. See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
- for TCP sockets.
- tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
- If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
- reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
- occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
- option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
- cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
- option can harm clients of your server.
- tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
- Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
- (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
- if it is <= 0.
- Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
- Default: 1
- tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
- Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
- processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
- tcp_available_congestion_control.
- Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
- tcp_app_win - INTEGER
- Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
- buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
- Default: 31
- tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
- Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
- More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
- but not loaded.
- tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
- The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
- Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled,
- this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
- tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER
- TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option,
- as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691.
- If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss,
- it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss.
- Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
- tcp_congestion_control - STRING
- Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
- connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
- additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
- Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
- For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice
- is inherited.
- [see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
- tcp_cookie_size - INTEGER
- Default size of TCP Cookie Transactions (TCPCT) option, that may be
- overridden on a per socket basis by the TCPCT socket option.
- Values greater than the maximum (16) are interpreted as the maximum.
- Values greater than zero and less than the minimum (8) are interpreted
- as the minimum. Odd values are interpreted as the next even value.
- Default: 0 (off).
- tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
- Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
- tcp_ecn - INTEGER
- Enable Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in TCP. ECN is only
- used when both ends of the TCP flow support it. It is useful to
- avoid losses due to congestion (when the bottleneck router supports
- ECN).
- Possible values are:
- 0 disable ECN
- 1 ECN enabled
- 2 Only server-side ECN enabled. If the other end does
- not support ECN, behavior is like with ECN disabled.
- Default: 2
- tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
- Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
- The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
- tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
- Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed
- by our side. Peer can be broken and never close its side,
- or even died unexpectedly. Default value is 60sec.
- Usual value used in 2.2 was 180 seconds, you may restore
- it, but remember that if your machine is even underloaded WEB server,
- you risk to overflow memory with kilotons of dead sockets,
- FIN-WAIT-2 sockets are less dangerous than FIN-WAIT-1,
- because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend
- to live longer. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
- tcp_frto - INTEGER
- Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC4138.
- F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
- timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments
- where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
- rather than intermediate router congestion. F-RTO is sender-side
- only modification. Therefore it does not require any support from
- the peer.
- If set to 1, basic version is enabled. 2 enables SACK enhanced
- F-RTO if flow uses SACK. The basic version can be used also when
- SACK is in use though scenario(s) with it exists where F-RTO
- interacts badly with the packet counting of the SACK enabled TCP
- flow.
- tcp_frto_response - INTEGER
- When F-RTO has detected that a TCP retransmission timeout was
- spurious (i.e, the timeout would have been avoided had TCP set a
- longer retransmission timeout), TCP has several options what to do
- next. Possible values are:
- 0 Rate halving based; a smooth and conservative response,
- results in halved cwnd and ssthresh after one RTT
- 1 Very conservative response; not recommended because even
- though being valid, it interacts poorly with the rest of
- Linux TCP, halves cwnd and ssthresh immediately
- 2 Aggressive response; undoes congestion control measures
- that are now known to be unnecessary (ignoring the
- possibility of a lost retransmission that would require
- TCP to be more cautious), cwnd and ssthresh are restored
- to the values prior timeout
- Default: 0 (rate halving based)
- tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
- How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
- Default: 2hours.
- tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
- How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
- connection is broken. Default value: 9.
- tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
- How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
- tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
- after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
- will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
- tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
- If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower
- latency as opposed to higher throughput. By default, this
- option is not set meaning that higher throughput is preferred.
- An example of an application where this default should be
- changed would be a Beowulf compute cluster.
- Default: 0
- tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
- Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
- held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
- reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
- only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
- or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
- (probably, after increasing installed memory),
- if network conditions require more than default value,
- and tune network services to linger and kill such states
- more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
- up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
- tcp_max_ssthresh - INTEGER
- Limited Slow-Start for TCP with large congestion windows (cwnd) defined in
- RFC3742. Limited slow-start is a mechanism to limit growth of the cwnd
- on the region where cwnd is larger than tcp_max_ssthresh. TCP increases cwnd
- by at most tcp_max_ssthresh segments, and by at least tcp_max_ssthresh/2
- segments per RTT when the cwnd is above tcp_max_ssthresh.
- If TCP connection increased cwnd to thousands (or tens of thousands) segments,
- and thousands of packets were being dropped during slow-start, you can set
- tcp_max_ssthresh to improve performance for new TCP connection.
- Default: 0 (off)
- tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
- Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which have not
- received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
- The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
- increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
- If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
- tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
- Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
- If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
- and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
- simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
- but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
- if network conditions require more than default value.
- tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
- min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
- memory appetite.
- pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
- of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
- pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
- under "min".
- max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
- Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
- memory.
- tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
- If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
- automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
- match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by
- default.
- tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
- Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three
- values:
- 0 - Disabled
- 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
- 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
- tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
- By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
- when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
- near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this
- increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
- degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
- connections.
- tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
- This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
- when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
- See tcp_retries2 for more details.
- The default value is 8.
- If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
- you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
- may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
- tcp_reordering - INTEGER
- Maximal reordering of packets in a TCP stream.
- Default: 3
- tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
- Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
- On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
- certain TCP stacks.
- tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
- This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
- something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
- and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
- See tcp_retries2 for more details.
- RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
- default.
- tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
- This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
- when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
- Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
- exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
- retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
- The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
- seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
- TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
- hypothetical timeout.
- RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
- which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
- tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
- If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
- we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
- assassination.
- Default: 0
- tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
- min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
- It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
- pressure.
- Default: 1 page
- 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.
- 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.
- tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
- Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
- tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
- If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
- window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
- the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
- be timed out after an idle period.
- Default: 1
- tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
- Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
- Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
- Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
- Default: FALSE
- tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
- Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
- be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
- is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
- tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
- Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES
- Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
- overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
- Default: FALSE
- Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
- It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
- against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
- in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
- because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
- another parameters until this warning disappear.
- See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
- syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
- to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
- of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
- but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
- SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
- is seriously misconfigured.
- tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
- Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
- will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
- is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
- tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN
- Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
- tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER
- Minimal number of segments per TSO frame.
- Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames,
- depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets.
- For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big
- TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets
- if available window is too small.
- Default: 2
- tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
- This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
- can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
- The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
- building larger TSO frames.
- Default: 3
- tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN
- Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0.
- It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
- experts.
- tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
- Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
- safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
- It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
- experts.
- tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
- Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
- tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
- min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
- Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
- Default: 1 page
- default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets. This
- value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
- It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
- Default: 16K
- max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
- send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
- net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
- automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
- this value is ignored.
- Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
- tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
- If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
- remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
- If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
- not receive a window scaling option from them.
- Default: 0
- tcp_dma_copybreak - INTEGER
- Lower limit, in bytes, of the size of socket reads that will be
- offloaded to a DMA copy engine, if one is present in the system
- and CONFIG_NET_DMA is enabled.
- Default: 4096
- tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
- Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
- If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
- determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
- As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
- timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
- initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
- non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
- For more information on thin streams, see
- Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
- Default: 0
- tcp_thin_dupack - BOOLEAN
- Enable dynamic triggering of retransmissions after one dupACK
- for thin streams. If set, a check is performed upon reception
- of a dupACK to determine if the stream is thin (less than 4
- packets in flight). As long as the stream is found to be thin,
- data is retransmitted on the first received dupACK. This
- improves retransmission latency for non-aggressive thin
- streams, often found to be time-dependent.
- For more information on thin streams, see
- Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
- Default: 0
- tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
- Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
- in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
- Default: 100
- tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER
- Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket.
- TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it
- gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can
- result in a large amount of packets queued in qdisc/device
- on the local machine, hurting latency of other flows, for
- typical pfifo_fast qdiscs.
- tcp_limit_output_bytes limits the number of bytes on qdisc
- or device to reduce artificial RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat.
- Default: 131072
- UDP variables:
- udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
- Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
- min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its
- memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds
- this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage.
- pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
- max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
- Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
- udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
- Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
- Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
- total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
- Default: 1 page
- udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
- Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
- Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if
- total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
- Default: 1 page
- CIPSOv4 Variables:
- cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
- If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
- cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
- miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
- invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
- off and the cache will always be "safe".
- Default: 1
- cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
- The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
- hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits
- the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
- more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of
- entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
- causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
- Default: 10
- cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
- Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
- the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
- This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
- categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
- Default: 0
- cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
- If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
- ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during
- ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
- where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
- result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
- with other implementations that require strict checking.
- Default: 0
- IP Variables:
- ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
- Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
- choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
- second the last local port number. The default values are
- 32768 and 61000 respectively.
- ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
- Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
- applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
- assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
- number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
- The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
- list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
- 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
- ports and update the current list with the one given in the
- input.
- Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
- settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
- when determining which ports are available for automatic port
- assignments.
- You can reserve ports which are not in the current
- ip_local_port_range, e.g.:
- $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
- 32000 61000
- $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
- 8080,9148
- although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
- if later the port range is changed to a value that will
- include the reserved ports.
- Default: Empty
- ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
- If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
- which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
- Default: 0
- ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
- If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
- If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
- message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
- occurs.
- Default: 0
- icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
- If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
- requests sent to it.
- Default: 0
- icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
- If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
- TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
- Default: 1
- icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
- Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
- icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
- 0 to disable any limiting,
- otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
- Default: 1000
- icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
- Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
- Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
- Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168)
- Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
- 0 Echo Reply
- 3 Destination Unreachable *
- 4 Source Quench *
- 5 Redirect
- 8 Echo Request
- B Time Exceeded *
- C Parameter Problem *
- D Timestamp Request
- E Timestamp Reply
- F Info Request
- G Info Reply
- H Address Mask Request
- I Address Mask Reply
- * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
- icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
- Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
- frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
- If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
- will avoid log file clutter.
- Default: FALSE
- icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
- If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
- the exiting interface.
- 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
- a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
- much easier.
- Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
- then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
- has one will be used regardless of this setting.
- Default: 0
- igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
- Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
- Default: 20
- Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
- report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
- datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
- intend to).
- The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group
- report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
- M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
- Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
- So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
- (65536-24) / 12 = 5459
- The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
- this number may be lower.
- conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where
- "interface" is the name of your network interface)
- conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
- log_martians - BOOLEAN
- Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
- log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
- accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
- Accept ICMP redirect messages.
- accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
- - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
- forwarding for the interface is enabled
- or
- - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
- case forwarding for the interface is disabled
- accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
- default TRUE (host)
- FALSE (router)
- forwarding - BOOLEAN
- Enable IP forwarding on this interface.
- mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
- Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
- and a multicast routing daemon is required.
- conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
- routing for the interface
- medium_id - INTEGER
- Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
- are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
- the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
- The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
- to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
- Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
- the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
- two devices attached to different media.
- proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
- Do proxy arp.
- proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
- proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
- Private VLAN proxy arp.
- Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
- (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
- This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
- 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
- communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
- the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
- to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
- router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
- proxy_arp.
- This technology is known by different names:
- In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
- Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
- Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
- Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
- shared_media - BOOLEAN
- Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
- Overrides ip_secure_redirects.
- shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
- default TRUE
- secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
- Accept ICMP redirect messages only for gateways,
- listed in default gateway list.
- secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
- default TRUE
- send_redirects - BOOLEAN
- Send redirects, if router.
- send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
- Default: TRUE
- bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
- Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
- not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
- BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
- conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
- for the interface
- default FALSE
- Not Implemented Yet.
- accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
- Accept packets with SRR option.
- conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
- with SRR option on the interface
- default TRUE (router)
- FALSE (host)
- accept_local - BOOLEAN
- Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
- suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
- local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
- default FALSE
- rp_filter - INTEGER
- 0 - No source validation.
- 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
- Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
- is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
- By default failed packets are discarded.
- 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
- Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
- and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
- the packet check will fail.
- Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
- to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
- or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
- The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
- when doing source validation on the {interface}.
- Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
- in startup scripts.
- arp_filter - BOOLEAN
- 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
- subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
- based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
- the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
- based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
- of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
- 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
- from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
- sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
- IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
- particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
- balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
- arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
- conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
- it will be disabled otherwise
- arp_announce - INTEGER
- Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
- source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
- interface:
- 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
- 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
- subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
- hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
- address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
- configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
- request we will check all our subnets that include the
- target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
- such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
- address according to the rules for level 2.
- 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
- In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
- and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
- the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
- for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
- interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
- local address is found we select the first local address
- we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
- with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
- even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
- The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
- Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
- receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
- the level announces more valid sender's information.
- arp_ignore - INTEGER
- Define different modes for sending replies in response to
- received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
- 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
- on any interface
- 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
- configured on the incoming interface
- 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
- configured on the incoming interface and both with the
- sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
- 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
- only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
- 4-7 - reserved
- 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
- The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
- when ARP request is received on the {interface}
- arp_notify - BOOLEAN
- Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
- 0 - (default): do nothing
- 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
- or hardware address changes.
- arp_accept - BOOLEAN
- Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not
- already present in the ARP table:
- 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
- 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
- Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
- ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
- If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
- gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
- if this setting is on or off.
- app_solicit - INTEGER
- The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
- via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
- mcast_solicit). Defaults to 0.
- disable_policy - BOOLEAN
- Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
- disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
- Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
- drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
- Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer
- multicast (or broadcast) frames.
- This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC
- 1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons.
- Default: off (0)
- drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN
- Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known
- good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
- (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
- Default: off (0)
- tag - INTEGER
- Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
- Default value is 0.
- Alexey Kuznetsov.
- kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
- Updated by:
- Andi Kleen
- ak@muc.de
- Nicolas Delon
- delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
- /proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
- IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
- apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
- bindv6only - BOOLEAN
- Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
- which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
- only.
- TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
- FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
- Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
- IPv6 Fragmentation:
- ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
- Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
- ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
- the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
- is reached.
- ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
- See ip6frag_high_thresh
- ip6frag_time - INTEGER
- Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
- ip6frag_secret_interval - INTEGER
- Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
- for the hash secret) for IPv6 fragments.
- Default: 600
- conf/default/*:
- Change the interface-specific default settings.
- conf/all/*:
- Change all the interface-specific settings.
- [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
- conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
- Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
- IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
- to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
- This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
- 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details.
- This referred to as global forwarding.
- proxy_ndp - INTEGER
- Do proxy ndp.
- Possible values are:
- 0 Proxy NDP is disabled
- 1 Proxy NDP is enabled
- 2 NDP packets are sent to userspace, where a userspace proxy
- can be implemented
- fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
- Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not
- associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies).
- If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
- fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
- Default: 0
- conf/interface/*:
- Change special settings per interface.
- The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
- depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
- accept_ra - INTEGER
- Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
- It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
- Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
- accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
- transmitted.
- Possible values are:
- 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements.
- 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
- 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
- even if forwarding is enabled.
- Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
- disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
- accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
- Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
- Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
- accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
- Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
- Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
- accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER
- Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
- Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall
- be ignored.
- Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
- -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
- accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
- Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
- Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall
- be ignored.
- Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
- -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
- accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
- Accept Router Preference in RA.
- Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
- accept_ra_prefix_route - BOOLEAN
- Set the prefix route for the autoconfigured interface address
- Functional default: enabled
- accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
- Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
- disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
- Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
- accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
- Accept Redirects.
- Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
- disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
- accept_source_route - INTEGER
- Accept source routing (routing extension header).
- >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
- < 0: Do not accept routing header.
- Default: 0
- autoconf - BOOLEAN
- Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
- Advertisements.
- Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
- disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
- dad_transmits - INTEGER
- The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
- Default: 1
- forwarding - INTEGER
- Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
- Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
- interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
- Possible values are:
- 0 Forwarding disabled
- 1 Forwarding enabled
- FALSE (0):
- By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
- 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
- 2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
- Solicitations.
- 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
- Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
- 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
- TRUE (1):
- If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
- This means exactly the reverse from the above:
- 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
- 2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
- 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
- 4. Redirects are ignored.
- Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
- otherwise 1 (enabled).
- hop_limit - INTEGER
- Default Hop Limit to set.
- Default: 64
- mtu - INTEGER
- Default Maximum Transfer Unit
- Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
- router_probe_interval - INTEGER
- Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
- in RFC4191.
- Default: 60
- router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
- Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
- before sending Router Solicitations.
- Default: 1
- router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
- Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
- Default: 4
- router_solicitations - INTEGER
- Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
- routers are present.
- Default: 3
- use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN
- When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations
- routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
- configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
- Default: false
- use_tempaddr - INTEGER
- Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
- <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
- == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
- addresses over temporary addresses.
- > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
- addresses over public addresses.
- Default: 0 (for most devices)
- -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
- temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
- valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
- Default: 604800 (7 days)
- temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
- Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
- Default: 86400 (1 day)
- max_desync_factor - INTEGER
- Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
- that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
- other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
- value is in seconds.
- Default: 600
- regen_max_retry - INTEGER
- Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
- valid temporary addresses.
- Default: 5
- max_addresses - INTEGER
- Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting
- to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this
- value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
- crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
- Default: 16
- disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
- Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
- will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
- address.
- Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
- When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
- it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
- interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
- When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
- it will dynamically delete all address on the given interface.
- accept_dad - INTEGER
- Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
- 0: Disable DAD
- 1: Enable DAD (default)
- 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
- link-local address has been found.
- force_tllao - BOOLEAN
- Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
- responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
- Default: FALSE
- Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
- "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
- avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
- does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
- message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
- omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
- layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
- solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
- address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
- race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
- prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
- optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN
- Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429).
- 0: disabled (default)
- 1: enabled
- use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
- If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during
- source address selection. Preferred addresses will still be chosen
- before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source
- address selection algorithm.
- 0: disabled (default)
- 1: enabled
- drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
- Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer
- multicast (or broadcast) frames.
- By default this is turned off.
- drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
- Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
- a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
- (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
- By default this is turned off.
- icmp/*:
- ratelimit - INTEGER
- Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
- 0 to disable any limiting,
- otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
- Default: 1000
- IPv6 Update by:
- Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
- YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
- /proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
- bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
- 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
- 0 : disable this.
- Default: 1
- bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
- 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
- 0 : disable this.
- Default: 1
- bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
- 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
- 0 : disable this.
- Default: 1
- bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
- 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
- 0 : disable this.
- Default: 1
- bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
- 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
- 0 : disable this.
- Default: 1
- proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
- addip_enable - BOOLEAN
- Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
- (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides
- the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
- associations.
- 1: Enable extension.
- 0: Disable extension.
- Default: 0
- addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
- Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
- authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
- addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
- would not be able to hijack associations. However, older
- implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
- allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability,
- we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
- authentication requirement.
- 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This
- should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
- with older implementations.
- 0: Enforce the authentication requirement
- Default: 0
- auth_enable - BOOLEAN
- Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension
- provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
- required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
- (ADD-IP) extension.
- 1: Enable this extension.
- 0: Disable this extension.
- Default: 0
- prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
- Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
- is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
- 1: Enable extension
- 0: Disable
- Default: 1
- max_burst - INTEGER
- The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It
- controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
- Default: 4
- association_max_retrans - INTEGER
- Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
- attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value
- is exceeded, the association is terminated.
- Default: 10
- max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
- The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
- that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
- unreachable and terminating.
- Default: 8
- path_max_retrans - INTEGER
- The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
- path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
- unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
- association is multihomed.
- Default: 5
- rto_initial - INTEGER
- The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
- in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval
- for retransmissions.
- Default: 3000
- rto_max - INTEGER
- The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
- is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
- Default: 60000
- rto_min - INTEGER
- The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
- is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
- Default: 1000
- hb_interval - INTEGER
- The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks
- are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
- a given path between 2 associations.
- Default: 30000
- sack_timeout - INTEGER
- The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
- to send a SACK.
- Default: 200
- valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
- The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie
- is used during association establishment.
- Default: 60000
- cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
- Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
- that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
- 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
- 0: Disable
- Default: 1
- rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
- Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
- association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
- associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is
- possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
- of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
- consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this,
- the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
- to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described
- blocking.
- 1: rcvbuf space is per association
- 0: recbuf space is per socket
- Default: 0
- sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
- Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
- 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
- 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
- Default: 0
- sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
- Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
- min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
- memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
- this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
- pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
- max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
- Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
- sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
- Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
- ignored.
- min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
- It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
- under moderate memory pressure.
- Default: 1 page
- sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
- Currently this tunable has no effect.
- addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
- Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
- 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
- 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
- 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
- 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
- Default: 1
- /proc/sys/net/core/*
- dev_weight - INTEGER
- The maximum number of packets that kernel can handle on a NAPI
- interrupt, it's a Per-CPU variable.
- Default: 64
- /proc/sys/net/unix/*
- max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
- The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
- Default: 10
- UNDOCUMENTED:
- /proc/sys/net/irda/*
- fast_poll_increase FIXME
- warn_noreply_time FIXME
- discovery_slots FIXME
- slot_timeout FIXME
- max_baud_rate FIXME
- discovery_timeout FIXME
- lap_keepalive_time FIXME
- max_noreply_time FIXME
- max_tx_data_size FIXME
- max_tx_window FIXME
- min_tx_turn_time FIXME
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