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1/proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables: 2 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 - INTEGER 137 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When 138 ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose, 139 the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh 140 is reached. This also serves as a maximum limit to namespaces 141 different from the initial one. 142 143ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER 144 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments before the kernel 145 begins to remove incomplete fragment queues to free up resources. 146 The kernel still accepts new fragments for defragmentation. 147 148ipfrag_time - INTEGER 149 Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory. 150 151ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER 152 ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the 153 maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a 154 common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is 155 not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source 156 IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it 157 probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue 158 have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check 159 is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if 160 ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP 161 address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source 162 address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are 163 lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one 164 started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check. 165 166 Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can 167 result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal 168 reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application 169 performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the 170 likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate 171 from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption. 172 Default: 64 173 174INET peer storage: 175 176inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER 177 The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold 178 entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines 179 entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection 180 passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval. 181 182inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER 183 Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment 184 time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is 185 guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold. 186 Measured in seconds. 187 188inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER 189 Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after 190 this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e. 191 when the number of entries in the pool is very small). 192 Measured in seconds. 193 194TCP variables: 195 196somaxconn - INTEGER 197 Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN. 198 Defaults to 128. See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning 199 for TCP sockets. 200 201tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN 202 If listening service is too slow to accept new connections, 203 reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow 204 occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this 205 option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon 206 cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this 207 option can harm clients of your server. 208 209tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER 210 Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale 211 (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale), 212 if it is <= 0. 213 Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive. 214 Default: 1 215 216tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING 217 Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged 218 processes. The list is a subset of those listed in 219 tcp_available_congestion_control. 220 Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control). 221 222tcp_app_win - INTEGER 223 Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application 224 buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved. 225 Default: 31 226 227tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN 228 Enable TCP auto corking : 229 When applications do consecutive small write()/sendmsg() system calls, 230 we try to coalesce these small writes as much as possible, to lower 231 total amount of sent packets. This is done if at least one prior 232 packet for the flow is waiting in Qdisc queues or device transmit 233 queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior 234 when they know how/when to uncork their sockets. 235 Default : 1 236 237tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING 238 Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered. 239 More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules, 240 but not loaded. 241 242tcp_base_mss - INTEGER 243 The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer 244 Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled, 245 this is the initial MSS used by the connection. 246 247tcp_congestion_control - STRING 248 Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new 249 connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but 250 additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration. 251 Default is set as part of kernel configuration. 252 For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice 253 is inherited. 254 [see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ] 255 256tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN 257 Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs. 258 259tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER 260 Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail 261 losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that 262 TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below) 263 Possible values: 264 0 disables TLP 265 3 or 4 enables TLP 266 Default: 3 267 268tcp_ecn - INTEGER 269 Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by TCP. 270 ECN is used only when both ends of the TCP connection indicate 271 support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses due 272 to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal 273 congestion before having to drop packets. 274 Possible values are: 275 0 Disable ECN. Neither initiate nor accept ECN. 276 1 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections and 277 also request ECN on outgoing connection attempts. 278 2 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections 279 but do not request ECN on outgoing connections. 280 Default: 2 281 282tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN 283 If the kernel detects that ECN connection misbehaves, enable fall 284 back to non-ECN. Currently, this knob implements the fallback 285 from RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1., but we reserve that in future, 286 additional detection mechanisms could be implemented under this 287 knob. The value is not used, if tcp_ecn or per route (or congestion 288 control) ECN settings are disabled. 289 Default: 1 (fallback enabled) 290 291tcp_fack - BOOLEAN 292 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore. 293 294tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER 295 The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any 296 application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state 297 before it is aborted at the local end. While a perfectly 298 valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an 299 orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait 300 forever for the remote to close its end of the connection. 301 Cf. tcp_max_orphans 302 Default: 60 seconds 303 304tcp_frto - INTEGER 305 Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682. 306 F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission 307 timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in networks where the 308 RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only 309 modification. It does not require any support from the peer. 310 311 By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO. 312 313tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER 314 Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments 315 in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing 316 connection but that are invalid due to any of these reasons: 317 318 (a) out-of-window sequence number, 319 (b) out-of-window acknowledgment number, or 320 (c) PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) check failure 321 322 This can help mitigate simple "ack loop" DoS attacks, wherein 323 a buggy or malicious middlebox or man-in-the-middle can 324 rewrite TCP header fields in manner that causes each endpoint 325 to think that the other is sending invalid TCP segments, thus 326 causing each side to send an unterminating stream of duplicate 327 acknowledgments for invalid segments. 328 329 Using 0 disables rate-limiting of dupacks in response to 330 invalid segments; otherwise this value specifies the minimal 331 space between sending such dupacks, in milliseconds. 332 333 Default: 500 (milliseconds). 334 335tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER 336 How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled. 337 Default: 2hours. 338 339tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER 340 How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the 341 connection is broken. Default value: 9. 342 343tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER 344 How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by 345 tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection, 346 after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection 347 will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries. 348 349tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN 350 Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index. 351 Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work 352 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets 353 derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in 354 which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was 355 compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. 356 357tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN 358 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore. 359 360tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER 361 Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle, 362 held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are 363 reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists 364 only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this 365 or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it 366 (probably, after increasing installed memory), 367 if network conditions require more than default value, 368 and tune network services to linger and kill such states 369 more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats 370 up to ~64K of unswappable memory. 371 372tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER 373 Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which have not 374 received an acknowledgment from connecting client. 375 The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will 376 increase in proportion to the memory of machine. 377 If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number. 378 379tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER 380 Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously. 381 If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed 382 and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent 383 simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially, 384 but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory), 385 if network conditions require more than default value. 386 387tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max 388 min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its 389 memory appetite. 390 391 pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number 392 of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory 393 pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls 394 under "min". 395 396 max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets. 397 398 Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available 399 memory. 400 401tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER 402 The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT. 403 A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher) 404 minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic 405 engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT 406 inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds. 407 Default: 300 408 409tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN 410 If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to 411 automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to 412 match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by 413 default. 414 415tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER 416 Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three 417 values: 418 0 - Disabled 419 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected 420 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss. 421 422tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER 423 Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU 424 Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as 425 per RFC4821. 426 427tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER 428 Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing 429 will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default 430 is 8 bytes. 431 432tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN 433 By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache 434 when the connection closes, so that connections established in the 435 near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this 436 increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance 437 degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing 438 connections. 439 440tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER 441 This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection, 442 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged. 443 See tcp_retries2 for more details. 444 445 The default value is 8. 446 If your machine is a loaded WEB server, 447 you should think about lowering this value, such sockets 448 may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans. 449 450tcp_recovery - INTEGER 451 This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery 452 features. 453 454 RACK: 0x1 enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost 455 retransmissions and tail drops. 456 RACK: 0x2 makes RACK's reordering window static (min_rtt/4). 457 458 Default: 0x1 459 460tcp_reordering - INTEGER 461 Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream. 462 TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level 463 between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering 464 Default: 3 465 466tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER 467 Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream. 468 300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it 469 if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode) 470 Default: 300 471 472tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN 473 Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers. 474 On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in 475 certain TCP stacks. 476 477tcp_retries1 - INTEGER 478 This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that 479 something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions, 480 and reports this suspicion to the network layer. 481 See tcp_retries2 for more details. 482 483 RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the 484 default. 485 486tcp_retries2 - INTEGER 487 This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection, 488 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged. 489 Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following 490 exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would 491 retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO. 492 493 The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6 494 seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout. 495 TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the 496 hypothetical timeout. 497 498 RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout, 499 which corresponds to a value of at least 8. 500 501tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN 502 If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset, 503 we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT 504 assassination. 505 Default: 0 506 507tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max 508 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets. 509 It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory 510 pressure. 511 Default: 1 page 512 513 default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets. 514 This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols. 515 Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with 516 default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit 517 less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables. 518 519 max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically 520 selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override 521 net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables 522 automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which 523 case this value is ignored. 524 Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size. 525 526tcp_sack - BOOLEAN 527 Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS). 528 529tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN 530 If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion 531 window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at 532 the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not 533 be timed out after an idle period. 534 Default: 1 535 536tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN 537 Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field. 538 Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on 539 Linux might not communicate correctly with them. 540 Default: FALSE 541 542tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER 543 Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will 544 be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value 545 is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission 546 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout 547 for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds. 548 549tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN 550 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES 551 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket 552 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack' 553 Default: 1 554 555 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility. 556 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand 557 against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings 558 in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur 559 because of overload with legal connections, you should tune 560 another parameters until this warning disappear. 561 See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow. 562 563 syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow 564 to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation 565 of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you, 566 but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see 567 SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server 568 is seriously misconfigured. 569 570 If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your 571 network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable 572 unconditionally generation of syncookies. 573 574tcp_fastopen - INTEGER 575 Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening 576 SYN packet. 577 578 The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client 579 then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag, 580 rather than connect() to send data in SYN. 581 582 The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then 583 either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or 584 enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with 585 the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog. 586 587 The values (bitmap) are 588 0x1: (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client. 589 0x2: (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in 590 a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the 591 application before 3-way handshake finishes. 592 0x4: (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie 593 availability and without a cookie option. 594 0x200: (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present. 595 0x400: (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by 596 default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option. 597 598 Default: 0x1 599 600 Note that that additional client or server features are only 601 effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively. 602 603tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER 604 Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets 605 when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens. 606 This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues 607 get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to 608 initial value when the blackhole issue goes away. 609 By default, it is set to 1hr. 610 611tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER 612 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt 613 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value 614 is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission 615 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout 616 for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds. 617 618tcp_timestamps - INTEGER 619Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323. 620 0: Disabled. 621 1: Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323 and use random offset for 622 each connection rather than only using the current time. 623 2: Like 1, but without random offsets. 624 Default: 1 625 626tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER 627 Minimal number of segments per TSO frame. 628 Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames, 629 depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets. 630 For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big 631 TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets 632 if available window is too small. 633 Default: 2 634 635tcp_pacing_ss_ratio - INTEGER 636 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied 637 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt) 638 If TCP is in slow start, tcp_pacing_ss_ratio is applied 639 to let TCP probe for bigger speeds, assuming cwnd can be 640 doubled every other RTT. 641 Default: 200 642 643tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER 644 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied 645 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt) 646 If TCP is in congestion avoidance phase, tcp_pacing_ca_ratio 647 is applied to conservatively probe for bigger throughput. 648 Default: 120 649 650tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER 651 This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window 652 can be consumed by a single TSO frame. 653 The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and 654 building larger TSO frames. 655 Default: 3 656 657tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN 658 Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is 659 safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0. 660 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical 661 experts. 662 663tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN 664 Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323. 665 666tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max 667 min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets. 668 Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth. 669 Default: 1 page 670 671 default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets. This 672 value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols. 673 It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default. 674 Default: 16K 675 676 max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned 677 send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override 678 net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables 679 automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case 680 this value is ignored. 681 Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size. 682 683tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER 684 A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue, 685 thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll() 686 reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per 687 socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will 688 also not add new buffers if the limit is hit. 689 690 This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for 691 sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change 692 to the global variable has immediate effect. 693 694 Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF) 695 696tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN 697 If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the 698 remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity. 699 If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do 700 not receive a window scaling option from them. 701 Default: 0 702 703tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN 704 Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams. 705 If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to 706 determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight). 707 As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear 708 timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is 709 initiated. This improves retransmission latency for 710 non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent. 711 For more information on thin streams, see 712 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt 713 Default: 0 714 715tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER 716 Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket. 717 TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it 718 gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can 719 result in a large amount of packets queued in qdisc/device 720 on the local machine, hurting latency of other flows, for 721 typical pfifo_fast qdiscs. 722 tcp_limit_output_bytes limits the number of bytes on qdisc 723 or device to reduce artificial RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat. 724 Default: 262144 725 726tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER 727 Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended 728 in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks) 729 Default: 100 730 731UDP variables: 732 733udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN 734 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work 735 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of 736 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they 737 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with 738 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. 739 740udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max 741 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets. 742 743 min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its 744 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds 745 this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage. 746 747 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem. 748 749 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets. 750 751 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory. 752 753udp_rmem_min - INTEGER 754 Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation. 755 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if 756 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte. 757 Default: 1 page 758 759udp_wmem_min - INTEGER 760 Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation. 761 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if 762 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte. 763 Default: 1 page 764 765CIPSOv4 Variables: 766 767cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN 768 If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping 769 cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a 770 miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still 771 invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and 772 off and the cache will always be "safe". 773 Default: 1 774 775cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER 776 The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each 777 hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits 778 the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the 779 more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of 780 entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries 781 causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room. 782 Default: 10 783 784cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN 785 Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of 786 the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details). 787 This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty 788 categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned. 789 Default: 0 790 791cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN 792 If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when 793 ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during 794 ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else 795 where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should 796 result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems 797 with other implementations that require strict checking. 798 Default: 0 799 800IP Variables: 801 802ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS 803 Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to 804 choose the local port. The first number is the first, the 805 second the last local port number. 806 If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity. 807 (one even and one odd values) 808 The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively. 809 810ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges 811 Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party 812 applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port 813 assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port 814 number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged. 815 816 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated 817 list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and 818 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved 819 ports and update the current list with the one given in the 820 input. 821 822 Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports 823 settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel 824 when determining which ports are available for automatic port 825 assignments. 826 827 You can reserve ports which are not in the current 828 ip_local_port_range, e.g.: 829 830 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range 831 32000 60999 832 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports 833 8080,9148 834 835 although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful 836 if later the port range is changed to a value that will 837 include the reserved ports. 838 839 Default: Empty 840 841ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER 842 This is a per-namespace sysctl. It defines the first 843 unprivileged port in the network namespace. Privileged ports 844 require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them. 845 To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0. It may not 846 overlap with the ip_local_reserved_ports range. 847 848 Default: 1024 849 850ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN 851 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses, 852 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications. 853 Default: 0 854 855ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN 856 If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses. 857 If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log 858 message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting 859 occurs. 860 Default: 0 861 862ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN 863 Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for 864 certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this 865 for established TCP and connected UDP sockets. 866 867 It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that 868 reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it. 869 Default: 1 870 871tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN 872 Enable early demux for established TCP sockets. 873 Default: 1 874 875udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN 876 Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if 877 your system could experience more unconnected load. 878 Default: 1 879 880icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN 881 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO 882 requests sent to it. 883 Default: 0 884 885icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN 886 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and 887 TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast. 888 Default: 1 889 890icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER 891 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches 892 icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets. 893 0 to disable any limiting, 894 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds. 895 Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number 896 of ICMP packets sent on all targets. 897 Default: 1000 898 899icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER 900 Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host. 901 Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are 902 controlled by this limit. 903 Default: 1000 904 905icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER 906 icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second, 907 while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets. 908 Default: 50 909 910icmp_ratemask - INTEGER 911 Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited. 912 Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210 913 Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168) 914 915 Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h): 916 0 Echo Reply 917 3 Destination Unreachable * 918 4 Source Quench * 919 5 Redirect 920 8 Echo Request 921 B Time Exceeded * 922 C Parameter Problem * 923 D Timestamp Request 924 E Timestamp Reply 925 F Info Request 926 G Info Reply 927 H Address Mask Request 928 I Address Mask Reply 929 930 * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above) 931 932icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN 933 Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast 934 frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning. 935 If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which 936 will avoid log file clutter. 937 Default: 1 938 939icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN 940 941 If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of 942 the exiting interface. 943 944 If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of 945 the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error. 946 This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from 947 a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts 948 much easier. 949 950 Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected, 951 then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that 952 has one will be used regardless of this setting. 953 954 Default: 0 955 956igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER 957 Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to. 958 Default: 20 959 960 Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership 961 report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple 962 datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't 963 intend to). 964 965 The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group 966 report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes. 967 968 M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record)) 969 970 Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes. 971 So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than: 972 973 (65536-24) / 12 = 5459 974 975 The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice 976 this number may be lower. 977 978igmp_max_msf - INTEGER 979 Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a 980 multicast group. 981 Default: 10 982 983igmp_qrv - INTEGER 984 Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1). 985 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1) 986 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5) 987 988force_igmp_version - INTEGER 989 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback 990 allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier 991 Present timer expires. 992 1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if 993 receive IGMPv2/v3 query. 994 2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive 995 IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query. 996 3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0. 997 998 Note: this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376 999 Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could 1000 ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make 1001 this value as default 0 is recommended. 1002 1003conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where 1004"interface" is the name of your network interface) 1005 1006conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces 1007 1008log_martians - BOOLEAN 1009 Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log. 1010 log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1011 conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE, 1012 it will be disabled otherwise 1013 1014accept_redirects - BOOLEAN 1015 Accept ICMP redirect messages. 1016 accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if: 1017 - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case 1018 forwarding for the interface is enabled 1019 or 1020 - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the 1021 case forwarding for the interface is disabled 1022 accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise 1023 default TRUE (host) 1024 FALSE (router) 1025 1026forwarding - BOOLEAN 1027 Enable IP forwarding on this interface. This controls whether packets 1028 received _on_ this interface can be forwarded. 1029 1030mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN 1031 Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE 1032 and a multicast routing daemon is required. 1033 conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast 1034 routing for the interface 1035 1036medium_id - INTEGER 1037 Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they 1038 are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when 1039 the broadcast packets are received only on one of them. 1040 The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface 1041 to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known. 1042 1043 Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior: 1044 the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between 1045 two devices attached to different media. 1046 1047proxy_arp - BOOLEAN 1048 Do proxy arp. 1049 proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1050 conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE, 1051 it will be disabled otherwise 1052 1053proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN 1054 Private VLAN proxy arp. 1055 Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface 1056 (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received). 1057 1058 This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC 1059 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to 1060 communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to 1061 the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible 1062 to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream 1063 router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with 1064 proxy_arp. 1065 1066 This technology is known by different names: 1067 In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation. 1068 Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN. 1069 Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation. 1070 Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft). 1071 1072shared_media - BOOLEAN 1073 Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects. 1074 Overrides secure_redirects. 1075 shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1076 conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE, 1077 it will be disabled otherwise 1078 default TRUE 1079 1080secure_redirects - BOOLEAN 1081 Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the 1082 interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect 1083 rules still apply. 1084 Overridden by shared_media. 1085 secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1086 conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE, 1087 it will be disabled otherwise 1088 default TRUE 1089 1090send_redirects - BOOLEAN 1091 Send redirects, if router. 1092 send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1093 conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE, 1094 it will be disabled otherwise 1095 Default: TRUE 1096 1097bootp_relay - BOOLEAN 1098 Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined 1099 not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that 1100 BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets. 1101 conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay 1102 for the interface 1103 default FALSE 1104 Not Implemented Yet. 1105 1106accept_source_route - BOOLEAN 1107 Accept packets with SRR option. 1108 conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets 1109 with SRR option on the interface 1110 default TRUE (router) 1111 FALSE (host) 1112 1113accept_local - BOOLEAN 1114 Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with 1115 suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two 1116 local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly. 1117 default FALSE 1118 1119route_localnet - BOOLEAN 1120 Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination 1121 while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes. 1122 default FALSE 1123 1124rp_filter - INTEGER 1125 0 - No source validation. 1126 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path 1127 Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface 1128 is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail. 1129 By default failed packets are discarded. 1130 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path 1131 Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB 1132 and if the source address is not reachable via any interface 1133 the packet check will fail. 1134 1135 Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode 1136 to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing 1137 or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended. 1138 1139 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used 1140 when doing source validation on the {interface}. 1141 1142 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it 1143 in startup scripts. 1144 1145arp_filter - BOOLEAN 1146 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same 1147 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered 1148 based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from 1149 the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source 1150 based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control 1151 of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request. 1152 1153 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses 1154 from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes 1155 sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication. 1156 IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by 1157 particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load- 1158 balancing, does this behaviour cause problems. 1159 1160 arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1161 conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE, 1162 it will be disabled otherwise 1163 1164arp_announce - INTEGER 1165 Define different restriction levels for announcing the local 1166 source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on 1167 interface: 1168 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface 1169 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's 1170 subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target 1171 hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP 1172 address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network 1173 configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the 1174 request we will check all our subnets that include the 1175 target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from 1176 such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source 1177 address according to the rules for level 2. 1178 2 - Always use the best local address for this target. 1179 In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet 1180 and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with 1181 the target host. Such local address is selected by looking 1182 for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing 1183 interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable 1184 local address is found we select the first local address 1185 we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces, 1186 with the hope we will receive reply for our request and 1187 even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce. 1188 1189 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used. 1190 1191 Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for 1192 receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing 1193 the level announces more valid sender's information. 1194 1195arp_ignore - INTEGER 1196 Define different modes for sending replies in response to 1197 received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses: 1198 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured 1199 on any interface 1200 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address 1201 configured on the incoming interface 1202 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address 1203 configured on the incoming interface and both with the 1204 sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface 1205 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host, 1206 only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied 1207 4-7 - reserved 1208 8 - do not reply for all local addresses 1209 1210 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used 1211 when ARP request is received on the {interface} 1212 1213arp_notify - BOOLEAN 1214 Define mode for notification of address and device changes. 1215 0 - (default): do nothing 1216 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up 1217 or hardware address changes. 1218 1219arp_accept - BOOLEAN 1220 Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not 1221 already present in the ARP table: 1222 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table 1223 1 - create new entries in the ARP table 1224 1225 Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the 1226 ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on. 1227 1228 If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the 1229 gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless 1230 if this setting is on or off. 1231 1232mcast_solicit - INTEGER 1233 The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state, 1234 when the associated hardware address is unknown. Defaults 1235 to 3. 1236 1237ucast_solicit - INTEGER 1238 The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when 1239 the hardware address is being reconfirmed. Defaults to 3. 1240 1241app_solicit - INTEGER 1242 The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon 1243 via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see 1244 mcast_resolicit). Defaults to 0. 1245 1246mcast_resolicit - INTEGER 1247 The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and 1248 app probes in PROBE state. Defaults to 0. 1249 1250disable_policy - BOOLEAN 1251 Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface 1252 1253disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN 1254 Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy 1255 1256igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 1257 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 1258 IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place. 1259 Default: 10000 (10 seconds) 1260 1261igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 1262 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 1263 IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place. 1264 Default: 1000 (1 seconds) 1265 1266promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN 1267 When a primary IP address is removed from this interface 1268 promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of 1269 removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses. 1270 1271drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN 1272 Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer 1273 multicast (or broadcast) frames. 1274 This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC 1275 1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons. 1276 Default: off (0) 1277 1278drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN 1279 Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known 1280 good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used 1281 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.) 1282 Default: off (0) 1283 1284 1285tag - INTEGER 1286 Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required. 1287 Default value is 0. 1288 1289xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER 1290 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4 1291 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will 1292 refuse new allocations. 1293 1294igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN 1295 Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the 1296 224.0.0.X range. 1297 Default TRUE 1298 1299Alexey Kuznetsov. 1300kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru 1301 1302Updated by: 1303Andi Kleen 1304ak@muc.de 1305Nicolas Delon 1306delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr 1307 1308 1309 1310 1311/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables: 1312 1313IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also 1314apply to IPv6 [XXX?]. 1315 1316bindv6only - BOOLEAN 1317 Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option, 1318 which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication 1319 only. 1320 TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature 1321 FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature 1322 1323 Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493) 1324 1325flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN 1326 Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label. 1327 You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the 1328 flow label manager. 1329 TRUE: enabled 1330 FALSE: disabled 1331 Default: TRUE 1332 1333auto_flowlabels - INTEGER 1334 Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the 1335 packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to 1336 identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath 1337 Routing (see RFC 6438). 1338 0: automatic flow labels are completely disabled 1339 1: automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be 1340 disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL 1341 socket option 1342 2: automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a 1343 per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option 1344 3: automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot 1345 be disabled by the socket option 1346 Default: 1 1347 1348flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN 1349 Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is 1350 reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF 1351 is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437. 1352 TRUE: enabled 1353 FALSE: disabled 1354 Default: true 1355 1356flowlabel_reflect - BOOLEAN 1357 Automatically reflect the flow label. Needed for Path MTU 1358 Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast 1359 environments. See RFC 7690 and: 1360 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01 1361 TRUE: enabled 1362 FALSE: disabled 1363 Default: FALSE 1364 1365anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN 1366 Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6 1367 echo reply 1368 TRUE: enabled 1369 FALSE: disabled 1370 Default: FALSE 1371 1372idgen_delay - INTEGER 1373 Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry 1374 privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is 1375 detected. 1376 Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217) 1377 1378idgen_retries - INTEGER 1379 Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy 1380 address if a DAD conflict is detected. 1381 Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217) 1382 1383mld_qrv - INTEGER 1384 Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1). 1385 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1) 1386 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5) 1387 1388max_dst_opts_cnt - INTEGER 1389 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Destination 1390 options extension header. If this value is less than zero 1391 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known 1392 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number. 1393 Default: 8 1394 1395max_hbh_opts_cnt - INTEGER 1396 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Hop-by-Hop 1397 options extension header. If this value is less than zero 1398 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known 1399 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number. 1400 Default: 8 1401 1402max dst_opts_len - INTEGER 1403 Maximum length allowed for a Destination options extension 1404 header. 1405 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited) 1406 1407max hbh_opts_len - INTEGER 1408 Maximum length allowed for a Hop-by-Hop options extension 1409 header. 1410 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited) 1411 1412IPv6 Fragmentation: 1413 1414ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER 1415 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When 1416 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose, 1417 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh 1418 is reached. 1419 1420ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER 1421 See ip6frag_high_thresh 1422 1423ip6frag_time - INTEGER 1424 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory. 1425 1426conf/default/*: 1427 Change the interface-specific default settings. 1428 1429 1430conf/all/*: 1431 Change all the interface-specific settings. 1432 1433 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?] 1434 1435conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN 1436 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces. 1437 1438 IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used 1439 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not. 1440 1441 This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting 1442 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details. 1443 1444 This referred to as global forwarding. 1445 1446proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN 1447 Do proxy ndp. 1448 1449fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN 1450 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not 1451 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies). 1452 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the 1453 fwmark of the packet they are replying to. 1454 Default: 0 1455 1456conf/interface/*: 1457 Change special settings per interface. 1458 1459 The functional behaviour for certain settings is different 1460 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not. 1461 1462accept_ra - INTEGER 1463 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them. 1464 1465 It also determines whether or not to transmit Router 1466 Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to 1467 accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be 1468 transmitted. 1469 1470 Possible values are: 1471 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements. 1472 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled. 1473 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements 1474 even if forwarding is enabled. 1475 1476 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled. 1477 disabled if local forwarding is enabled. 1478 1479accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN 1480 Learn default router in Router Advertisement. 1481 1482 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 1483 disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 1484 1485accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN 1486 Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine 1487 if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted. 1488 Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended 1489 network loop. 1490 1491 Functional default: 1492 enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled 1493 on a specific interface. 1494 disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled 1495 on a specific interface. 1496 1497accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER 1498 Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement. 1499 1500 Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this 1501 variable shall be ignored. 1502 1503 Default: 1 1504 1505accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN 1506 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement. 1507 1508 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 1509 disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 1510 1511accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER 1512 Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA. 1513 1514 Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall 1515 be ignored. 1516 1517 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled. 1518 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled. 1519 1520accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER 1521 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA. 1522 1523 Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall 1524 be ignored. 1525 1526 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled. 1527 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled. 1528 1529accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN 1530 Accept Router Preference in RA. 1531 1532 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 1533 disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 1534 1535accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN 1536 Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If 1537 disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored. 1538 1539 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 1540 disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 1541 1542accept_redirects - BOOLEAN 1543 Accept Redirects. 1544 1545 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled. 1546 disabled if local forwarding is enabled. 1547 1548accept_source_route - INTEGER 1549 Accept source routing (routing extension header). 1550 1551 >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2. 1552 < 0: Do not accept routing header. 1553 1554 Default: 0 1555 1556autoconf - BOOLEAN 1557 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router 1558 Advertisements. 1559 1560 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled. 1561 disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled. 1562 1563dad_transmits - INTEGER 1564 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send. 1565 Default: 1 1566 1567forwarding - INTEGER 1568 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour. 1569 1570 Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all 1571 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon. 1572 1573 Possible values are: 1574 0 Forwarding disabled 1575 1 Forwarding enabled 1576 1577 FALSE (0): 1578 1579 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means: 1580 1581 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements. 1582 2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router 1583 Solicitations. 1584 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router 1585 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration). 1586 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects. 1587 1588 TRUE (1): 1589 1590 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed. 1591 This means exactly the reverse from the above: 1592 1593 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements. 1594 2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2. 1595 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2. 1596 4. Redirects are ignored. 1597 1598 Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default), 1599 otherwise 1 (enabled). 1600 1601hop_limit - INTEGER 1602 Default Hop Limit to set. 1603 Default: 64 1604 1605mtu - INTEGER 1606 Default Maximum Transfer Unit 1607 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum) 1608 1609ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN 1610 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses, 1611 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications. 1612 Default: 0 1613 1614router_probe_interval - INTEGER 1615 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described 1616 in RFC4191. 1617 1618 Default: 60 1619 1620router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER 1621 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up 1622 before sending Router Solicitations. 1623 Default: 1 1624 1625router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER 1626 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations. 1627 Default: 4 1628 1629router_solicitations - INTEGER 1630 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no 1631 routers are present. 1632 Default: 3 1633 1634use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN 1635 When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations 1636 routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses 1637 configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4). 1638 1639 Default: false 1640 1641use_tempaddr - INTEGER 1642 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041). 1643 <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions 1644 == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public 1645 addresses over temporary addresses. 1646 > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary 1647 addresses over public addresses. 1648 Default: 0 (for most devices) 1649 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices) 1650 1651temp_valid_lft - INTEGER 1652 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. 1653 Default: 604800 (7 days) 1654 1655temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER 1656 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. 1657 Default: 86400 (1 day) 1658 1659keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER 1660 Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static 1661 global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed. 1662 >0 : enabled 1663 0 : system default 1664 <0 : disabled 1665 1666 Default: 0 (addresses are removed) 1667 1668max_desync_factor - INTEGER 1669 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value 1670 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each 1671 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time. 1672 value is in seconds. 1673 Default: 600 1674 1675regen_max_retry - INTEGER 1676 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate 1677 valid temporary addresses. 1678 Default: 5 1679 1680max_addresses - INTEGER 1681 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting 1682 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this 1683 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to 1684 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created. 1685 Default: 16 1686 1687disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN 1688 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value 1689 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local 1690 address. 1691 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation) 1692 1693 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled), 1694 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given 1695 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary. 1696 1697 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled), 1698 it will dynamically delete all address on the given interface. 1699 1700accept_dad - INTEGER 1701 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection). 1702 0: Disable DAD 1703 1: Enable DAD (default) 1704 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate 1705 link-local address has been found. 1706 1707 DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according 1708 to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad. 1709 1710force_tllao - BOOLEAN 1711 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when 1712 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation. 1713 Default: FALSE 1714 1715 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address: 1716 1717 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to 1718 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node 1719 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements 1720 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be 1721 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link- 1722 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast 1723 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer 1724 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential 1725 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address 1726 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation." 1727 1728ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN 1729 Define mode for notification of address and device changes. 1730 0 - (default): do nothing 1731 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought 1732 up or hardware address changes. 1733 1734ndisc_tclass - INTEGER 1735 The IPv6 Traffic Class to use by default when sending IPv6 Neighbor 1736 Discovery (Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor 1737 Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, Redirect) messages. 1738 These 8 bits can be interpreted as 6 high order bits holding the DSCP 1739 value and 2 low order bits representing ECN (which you probably want 1740 to leave cleared). 1741 0 - (default) 1742 1743mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 1744 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 1745 MLDv1 report retransmit will take place. 1746 Default: 10000 (10 seconds) 1747 1748mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 1749 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 1750 MLDv2 report retransmit will take place. 1751 Default: 1000 (1 second) 1752 1753force_mld_version - INTEGER 1754 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed 1755 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1 1756 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2 1757 1758suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER 1759 Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation 1760 with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior: 1761 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets 1762 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets 1763 1764optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN 1765 Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429). 1766 0: disabled (default) 1767 1: enabled 1768 1769 Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled 1770 if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1, 1771 it will be disabled otherwise. 1772 1773use_optimistic - BOOLEAN 1774 If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during 1775 source address selection. Preferred addresses will still be chosen 1776 before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source 1777 address selection algorithm. 1778 0: disabled (default) 1779 1: enabled 1780 1781 This will be enabled if at least one of 1782 conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise. 1783 1784stable_secret - IPv6 address 1785 This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6 1786 addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured 1787 ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will 1788 be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the 1789 addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the 1790 secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can 1791 overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused. 1792 1793 It is recommended to generate this secret during installation 1794 of a system and keep it stable after that. 1795 1796 By default the stable secret is unset. 1797 1798drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN 1799 Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer 1800 multicast (or broadcast) frames. 1801 1802 By default this is turned off. 1803 1804drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN 1805 Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's 1806 a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used 1807 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.) 1808 1809 By default this is turned off. 1810 1811enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN 1812 Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for 1813 duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal 1814 a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false 1815 detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send. 1816 The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of 1817 conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE. 1818 Default: TRUE 1819 1820icmp/*: 1821ratelimit - INTEGER 1822 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets. 1823 0 to disable any limiting, 1824 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds. 1825 Default: 1000 1826 1827xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER 1828 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6 1829 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will 1830 refuse new allocations. 1831 1832 1833IPv6 Update by: 1834Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> 1835YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> 1836 1837 1838/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables: 1839 1840bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN 1841 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain. 1842 0 : disable this. 1843 Default: 1 1844 1845bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN 1846 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains. 1847 0 : disable this. 1848 Default: 1 1849 1850bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN 1851 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains. 1852 0 : disable this. 1853 Default: 1 1854 1855bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN 1856 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables. 1857 0 : disable this. 1858 Default: 0 1859 1860bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN 1861 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables. 1862 0 : disable this. 1863 Default: 0 1864 1865bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN 1866 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan 1867 interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the vlan. 1868 This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the REDIRECT 1869 target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces. When no matching 1870 vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input device is 1871 set to the bridge interface. 1872 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup. 1873 Default: 0 1874 1875proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables: 1876 1877addip_enable - BOOLEAN 1878 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration 1879 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides 1880 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP 1881 associations. 1882 1883 1: Enable extension. 1884 1885 0: Disable extension. 1886 1887 Default: 0 1888 1889pf_enable - INTEGER 1890 Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value 1891 of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of 1892 both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state. 1893 Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace 1894 application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of 1895 pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans 1896 or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is 1897 enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable 1898 and disable pf state. See: 1899 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for 1900 details. 1901 1902 1: Enable pf. 1903 1904 0: Disable pf. 1905 1906 Default: 1 1907 1908addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN 1909 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of 1910 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new 1911 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts 1912 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older 1913 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while 1914 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability, 1915 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the 1916 authentication requirement. 1917 1918 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This 1919 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability 1920 with older implementations. 1921 1922 0: Enforce the authentication requirement 1923 1924 Default: 0 1925 1926auth_enable - BOOLEAN 1927 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension 1928 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is 1929 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration 1930 (ADD-IP) extension. 1931 1932 1: Enable this extension. 1933 0: Disable this extension. 1934 1935 Default: 0 1936 1937prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN 1938 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which 1939 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected. 1940 1941 1: Enable extension 1942 0: Disable 1943 1944 Default: 1 1945 1946max_burst - INTEGER 1947 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It 1948 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be. 1949 1950 Default: 4 1951 1952association_max_retrans - INTEGER 1953 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can 1954 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value 1955 is exceeded, the association is terminated. 1956 1957 Default: 10 1958 1959max_init_retransmits - INTEGER 1960 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks 1961 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination 1962 unreachable and terminating. 1963 1964 Default: 8 1965 1966path_max_retrans - INTEGER 1967 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given 1968 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered 1969 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the 1970 association is multihomed. 1971 1972 Default: 5 1973 1974pf_retrans - INTEGER 1975 The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path 1976 before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one 1977 exist). Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that 1978 passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used. Its only 1979 deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack. This 1980 setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without 1981 having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See: 1982 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt 1983 for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans 1984 disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can 1985 be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to 1986 disable pf state. 1987 1988 Default: 0 1989 1990rto_initial - INTEGER 1991 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used 1992 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval 1993 for retransmissions. 1994 1995 Default: 3000 1996 1997rto_max - INTEGER 1998 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This 1999 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions. 2000 2001 Default: 60000 2002 2003rto_min - INTEGER 2004 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This 2005 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions. 2006 2007 Default: 1000 2008 2009hb_interval - INTEGER 2010 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks 2011 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of 2012 a given path between 2 associations. 2013 2014 Default: 30000 2015 2016sack_timeout - INTEGER 2017 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait 2018 to send a SACK. 2019 2020 Default: 200 2021 2022valid_cookie_life - INTEGER 2023 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie 2024 is used during association establishment. 2025 2026 Default: 60000 2027 2028cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN 2029 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie 2030 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association 2031 2032 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension. 2033 0: Disable 2034 2035 Default: 1 2036 2037cookie_hmac_alg - STRING 2038 Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by 2039 a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk. 2040 Valid values are: 2041 * md5 2042 * sha1 2043 * none 2044 Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the 2045 configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and 2046 CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1). 2047 2048 Default: Dependent on configuration. MD5 if available, else SHA1 if 2049 available, else none. 2050 2051rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER 2052 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to 2053 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple 2054 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is 2055 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot 2056 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by 2057 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this, 2058 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space 2059 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described 2060 blocking. 2061 2062 1: rcvbuf space is per association 2063 0: rcvbuf space is per socket 2064 2065 Default: 0 2066 2067sndbuf_policy - INTEGER 2068 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space. 2069 2070 1: Send buffer is tracked per association 2071 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket. 2072 2073 Default: 0 2074 2075sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max 2076 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets. 2077 2078 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its 2079 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds 2080 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage. 2081 2082 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem. 2083 2084 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets. 2085 2086 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory. 2087 2088sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max 2089 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are 2090 ignored. 2091 2092 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket. 2093 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even 2094 under moderate memory pressure. 2095 2096 Default: 1 page 2097 2098sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max 2099 Currently this tunable has no effect. 2100 2101addr_scope_policy - INTEGER 2102 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00 2103 2104 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping 2105 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping 2106 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses 2107 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses 2108 2109 Default: 1 2110 2111 2112/proc/sys/net/core/* 2113 Please see: Documentation/sysctl/net.txt for descriptions of these entries. 2114 2115 2116/proc/sys/net/unix/* 2117max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER 2118 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue 2119 2120 Default: 10 2121 2122 2123UNDOCUMENTED: 2124 2125/proc/sys/net/irda/* 2126 fast_poll_increase FIXME 2127 warn_noreply_time FIXME 2128 discovery_slots FIXME 2129 slot_timeout FIXME 2130 max_baud_rate FIXME 2131 discovery_timeout FIXME 2132 lap_keepalive_time FIXME 2133 max_noreply_time FIXME 2134 max_tx_data_size FIXME 2135 max_tx_window FIXME 2136 min_tx_turn_time FIXME