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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 - LONG INTEGER
137	Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments.
138
139ipfrag_low_thresh - LONG INTEGER
140	(Obsolete since linux-4.17)
141	Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments before the kernel
142	begins to remove incomplete fragment queues to free up resources.
143	The kernel still accepts new fragments for defragmentation.
144
145ipfrag_time - INTEGER
146	Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
147
148ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
149	ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
150	maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
151	common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
152	not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
153	IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
154	probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
155	have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
156	is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
157	ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
158	address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
159	address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
160	lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
161	started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
162
163	Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
164	result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
165	reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
166	performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
167	likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
168	from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
169	Default: 64
170
171INET peer storage:
172
173inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
174	The approximate size of the storage.  Starting from this threshold
175	entries will be thrown aggressively.  This threshold also determines
176	entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
177	passes.  More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
178
179inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
180	Minimum time-to-live of entries.  Should be enough to cover fragment
181	time-to-live on the reassembling side.  This minimum time-to-live  is
182	guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
183	Measured in seconds.
184
185inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
186	Maximum time-to-live of entries.  Unused entries will expire after
187	this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
188	when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
189	Measured in seconds.
190
191TCP variables:
192
193somaxconn - INTEGER
194	Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
195	Defaults to 128.  See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
196	for TCP sockets.
197
198tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
199	If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
200	reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
201	occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
202	option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
203	cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
204	option can harm clients of your server.
205
206tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
207	Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
208	(if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
209	if it is <= 0.
210	Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
211	Default: 1
212
213tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
214	Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
215	processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
216	tcp_available_congestion_control.
217	Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
218
219tcp_app_win - INTEGER
220	Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
221	buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
222	Default: 31
223
224tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN
225	Enable TCP auto corking :
226	When applications do consecutive small write()/sendmsg() system calls,
227	we try to coalesce these small writes as much as possible, to lower
228	total amount of sent packets. This is done if at least one prior
229	packet for the flow is waiting in Qdisc queues or device transmit
230	queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior
231	when they know how/when to uncork their sockets.
232	Default : 1
233
234tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
235	Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
236	More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
237	but not loaded.
238
239tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
240	The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
241	Path MTU discovery (MTU probing).  If MTU probing is enabled,
242	this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
243
244tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER
245	TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option,
246	as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691.
247	If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss,
248	it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss.
249
250	Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
251
252tcp_congestion_control - STRING
253	Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
254	connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
255	additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
256	Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
257	For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice
258	is inherited.
259	[see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
260
261tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
262	Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
263
264tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER
265	Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail
266	losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that
267	TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below)
268	Possible values:
269		0 disables TLP
270		3 or 4 enables TLP
271	Default: 3
272
273tcp_ecn - INTEGER
274	Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by TCP.
275	ECN is used only when both ends of the TCP connection indicate
276	support for it.  This feature is useful in avoiding losses due
277	to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal
278	congestion before having to drop packets.
279	Possible values are:
280		0 Disable ECN.  Neither initiate nor accept ECN.
281		1 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections and
282		  also request ECN on outgoing connection attempts.
283		2 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections
284		  but do not request ECN on outgoing connections.
285	Default: 2
286
287tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN
288	If the kernel detects that ECN connection misbehaves, enable fall
289	back to non-ECN. Currently, this knob implements the fallback
290	from RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1., but we reserve that in future,
291	additional detection mechanisms could be implemented under this
292	knob. The value	is not used, if tcp_ecn or per route (or congestion
293	control) ECN settings are disabled.
294	Default: 1 (fallback enabled)
295
296tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
297	Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
298	The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
299
300tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
301	The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any
302	application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state
303	before it is aborted at the local end.  While a perfectly
304	valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an
305	orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait
306	forever for the remote to close its end of the connection.
307	Cf. tcp_max_orphans
308	Default: 60 seconds
309
310tcp_frto - INTEGER
311	Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682.
312	F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
313	timeouts.  It is particularly beneficial in networks where the
314	RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only
315	modification. It does not require any support from the peer.
316
317	By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO.
318
319tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER
320	Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments
321	in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing
322	connection but that are invalid due to any of these reasons:
323
324	  (a) out-of-window sequence number,
325	  (b) out-of-window acknowledgment number, or
326	  (c) PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) check failure
327
328	This can help mitigate simple "ack loop" DoS attacks, wherein
329	a buggy or malicious middlebox or man-in-the-middle can
330	rewrite TCP header fields in manner that causes each endpoint
331	to think that the other is sending invalid TCP segments, thus
332	causing each side to send an unterminating stream of duplicate
333	acknowledgments for invalid segments.
334
335	Using 0 disables rate-limiting of dupacks in response to
336	invalid segments; otherwise this value specifies the minimal
337	space between sending such dupacks, in milliseconds.
338
339	Default: 500 (milliseconds).
340
341tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
342	How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
343	Default: 2hours.
344
345tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
346	How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
347	connection is broken. Default value: 9.
348
349tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
350	How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
351	tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
352	after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
353	will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
354
355tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
356	Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index.
357	Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work
358	across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets
359	derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in
360	which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was
361	compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
362
363tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
364	This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
365
366tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
367	Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
368	held by system.	If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
369	reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
370	only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
371	or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
372	(probably, after increasing installed memory),
373	if network conditions require more than default value,
374	and tune network services to linger and kill such states
375	more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
376	up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
377
378tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
379	Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which have not
380	received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
381	The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
382	increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
383	If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
384
385tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
386	Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
387	If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
388	and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
389	simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
390	but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
391	if network conditions require more than default value.
392
393tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
394	min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
395	memory appetite.
396
397	pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
398	of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
399	pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
400	under "min".
401
402	max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
403
404	Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
405	memory.
406
407tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER
408	The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT.
409	A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher)
410	minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic
411	engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT
412	inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds.
413	Possible values: 0 - 86400 (1 day)
414	Default: 300
415
416tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
417	If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
418	automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
419	match the size required by the path for full throughput.  Enabled by
420	default.
421
422tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
423	Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery.  Takes three
424	values:
425	  0 - Disabled
426	  1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
427	  2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
428
429tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER
430	Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
431	Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
432	per RFC4821.
433
434tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
435	Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
436	will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
437	is 8 bytes.
438
439tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
440	By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
441	when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
442	near future can use these to set initial conditions.  Usually, this
443	increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
444	degradation.  If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
445	connections.
446
447tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
448	This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
449	when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
450	See tcp_retries2 for more details.
451
452	The default value is 8.
453	If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
454	you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
455	may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
456
457tcp_recovery - INTEGER
458	This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery
459	features.
460
461	RACK: 0x1 enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost
462	      retransmissions and tail drops.
463
464	Default: 0x1
465
466tcp_reordering - INTEGER
467	Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
468	TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level
469	between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering
470	Default: 3
471
472tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER
473	Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
474	300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it
475	if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode)
476	Default: 300
477
478tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
479	Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
480	On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
481	certain TCP stacks.
482
483tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
484	This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
485	something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
486	and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
487	See tcp_retries2 for more details.
488
489	RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
490	default.
491
492tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
493	This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
494	when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
495	Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
496	exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
497	retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
498
499	The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
500	seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
501	TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
502	hypothetical timeout.
503
504	RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
505	which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
506
507tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
508	If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
509	we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
510	assassination.
511	Default: 0
512
513tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
514	min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
515	It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
516	pressure.
517	Default: 4K
518
519	default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
520	This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
521	Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
522	default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
523	less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
524
525	max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
526	selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
527	net.core.rmem_max.  Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
528	automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
529	case this value is ignored.
530	Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
531
532tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
533	Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
534
535tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
536	If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
537	window after an idle period.  An idle period is defined at
538	the current RTO.  If unset, the congestion window will not
539	be timed out after an idle period.
540	Default: 1
541
542tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
543	Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
544	Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
545	Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
546	Default: FALSE
547
548tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
549	Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
550	be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
551	is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission
552	with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
553	for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
554
555tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
556	Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
557	Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
558	overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
559	Default: 1
560
561	Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
562	It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
563	against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
564	in your logs, but investigation	shows that they occur
565	because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
566	another parameters until this warning disappear.
567	See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
568
569	syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
570	to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
571	of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
572	but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
573	SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
574	is seriously misconfigured.
575
576	If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
577	network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
578	unconditionally generation of syncookies.
579
580tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
581	Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening
582	SYN packet.
583
584	The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client
585	then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag,
586	rather than connect() to send data in SYN.
587
588	The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then
589	either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or
590	enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with
591	the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog.
592
593	The values (bitmap) are
594	  0x1: (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
595	  0x2: (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in
596			a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the
597			application before 3-way handshake finishes.
598	  0x4: (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie
599			availability and without a cookie option.
600	0x200: (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
601	0x400: (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by
602			default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option.
603
604	Default: 0x1
605
606	Note that that additional client or server features are only
607	effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively.
608
609tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER
610	Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets
611	when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens.
612	This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues
613	get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to
614	initial value when the blackhole issue goes away.
615	By default, it is set to 1hr.
616
617tcp_fwmark_accept - BOOLEAN
618	If set, incoming connections to listening sockets that do not have a
619	socket mark will set the mark of the accepting socket to the fwmark of
620	the incoming SYN packet. This will cause all packets on that connection
621	(starting from the first SYNACK) to be sent with that fwmark. The
622	listening socket's mark is unchanged. Listening sockets that already
623	have a fwmark set via setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_MARK, ...) are
624	unaffected.
625	Default: 0
626
627tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
628	Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
629	will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value
630	is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission
631	with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
632	for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
633
634tcp_timestamps - INTEGER
635Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
636	0: Disabled.
637	1: Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323 and use random offset for
638	each connection rather than only using the current time.
639	2: Like 1, but without random offsets.
640	Default: 1
641
642tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER
643	Minimal number of segments per TSO frame.
644	Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames,
645	depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets.
646	For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big
647	TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets
648	if available window is too small.
649	Default: 2
650
651tcp_pacing_ss_ratio - INTEGER
652	sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
653	to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
654	If TCP is in slow start, tcp_pacing_ss_ratio is applied
655	to let TCP probe for bigger speeds, assuming cwnd can be
656	doubled every other RTT.
657	Default: 200
658
659tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER
660	sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
661	to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
662	If TCP is in congestion avoidance phase, tcp_pacing_ca_ratio
663	is applied to conservatively probe for bigger throughput.
664	Default: 120
665
666tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
667	This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
668	can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
669	The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
670	building larger TSO frames.
671	Default: 3
672
673tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
674	Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
675	safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
676	It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
677	experts.
678
679tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
680	Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
681
682tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
683	min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
684	Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
685	Default: 4K
686
687	default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets.  This
688	value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
689	It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
690	Default: 16K
691
692	max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
693	send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
694	net.core.wmem_max.  Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
695	automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
696	this value is ignored.
697	Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
698
699tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER
700	A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue,
701	thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll()
702	reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per
703	socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will
704	also not add new buffers if the limit is hit.
705
706	This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for
707	sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change
708	to the global variable has immediate effect.
709
710	Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF)
711
712tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
713	If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
714	remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
715	If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
716	not receive a window scaling option from them.
717	Default: 0
718
719tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
720	Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
721	If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
722	determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
723	As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
724	timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
725	initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
726	non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
727	For more information on thin streams, see
728	Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
729	Default: 0
730
731tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER
732	Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket.
733	TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it
734	gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can
735	result in a large amount of packets queued in qdisc/device
736	on the local machine, hurting latency of other flows, for
737	typical pfifo_fast qdiscs.
738	tcp_limit_output_bytes limits the number of bytes on qdisc
739	or device to reduce artificial RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat.
740	Default: 262144
741
742tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
743	Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
744	in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
745	Default: 100
746
747UDP variables:
748
749udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
750	Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
751	across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
752	being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
753	originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
754	CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
755
756udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
757	Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
758
759	min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its
760	memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds
761	this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage.
762
763	pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
764
765	max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
766
767	Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
768
769udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
770	Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
771	Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
772	total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
773	Default: 1 page
774
775udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
776	Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
777	Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if
778	total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
779	Default: 1 page
780
781CIPSOv4 Variables:
782
783cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
784	If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
785	cache.  If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
786	miss.  However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
787	invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
788	off and the cache will always be "safe".
789	Default: 1
790
791cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
792	The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
793	hash bucket containing a number of cache entries.  This variable limits
794	the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
795	more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached.  When the number of
796	entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
797	causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
798	Default: 10
799
800cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
801	Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
802	the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
803	This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
804	categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
805	Default: 0
806
807cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
808	If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
809	ip_options_compile() is called.  If unset, relax the checks done during
810	ip_options_compile().  Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
811	where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
812	result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
813	with other implementations that require strict checking.
814	Default: 0
815
816IP Variables:
817
818ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
819	Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
820	choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
821	second the last local port number.
822	If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity.
823	(one even and one odd values)
824	The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively.
825
826ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
827	Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
828	applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
829	assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
830	number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
831
832	The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
833	list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
834	10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
835	ports and update the current list with the one given in the
836	input.
837
838	Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
839	settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
840	when determining which ports are available for automatic port
841	assignments.
842
843	You can reserve ports which are not in the current
844	ip_local_port_range, e.g.:
845
846	$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
847	32000	60999
848	$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
849	8080,9148
850
851	although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
852	if later the port range is changed to a value that will
853	include the reserved ports.
854
855	Default: Empty
856
857ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER
858	This is a per-namespace sysctl.  It defines the first
859	unprivileged port in the network namespace.  Privileged ports
860	require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them.
861	To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0.  It may not
862	overlap with the ip_local_reserved_ports range.
863
864	Default: 1024
865
866ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
867	If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
868	which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
869	Default: 0
870
871ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
872	If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
873	If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
874	message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
875	occurs.
876	Default: 0
877
878ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN
879	Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for
880	certain kinds of local sockets.  Currently we only do this
881	for established TCP and connected UDP sockets.
882
883	It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that
884	reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it.
885	Default: 1
886
887tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
888	Enable early demux for established TCP sockets.
889	Default: 1
890
891udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
892	Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if
893	your system could experience more unconnected load.
894	Default: 1
895
896icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
897	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
898	requests sent to it.
899	Default: 0
900
901icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
902	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
903	TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
904	Default: 1
905
906icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
907	Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
908	icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
909	0 to disable any limiting,
910	otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
911	Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number
912	of ICMP packets	sent on all targets.
913	Default: 1000
914
915icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER
916	Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host.
917	Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are
918	controlled by this limit.
919	Default: 1000
920
921icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER
922	icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second,
923	while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets.
924	Default: 50
925
926icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
927	Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
928	Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
929	Default mask:     0000001100000011000 (6168)
930
931	Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
932		0 Echo Reply
933		3 Destination Unreachable *
934		4 Source Quench *
935		5 Redirect
936		8 Echo Request
937		B Time Exceeded *
938		C Parameter Problem *
939		D Timestamp Request
940		E Timestamp Reply
941		F Info Request
942		G Info Reply
943		H Address Mask Request
944		I Address Mask Reply
945
946	* These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
947
948icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
949	Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
950	frames.  Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
951	If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
952	will avoid log file clutter.
953	Default: 1
954
955icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
956
957	If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
958	the exiting interface.
959
960	If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
961	the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
962	This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
963	a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
964	much easier.
965
966	Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
967	then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
968	has one will be used regardless of this setting.
969
970	Default: 0
971
972igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
973	Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
974	Default: 20
975
976	Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
977	report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
978	datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
979	intend to).
980
981	The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group
982	report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
983
984	M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
985
986	Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
987	So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
988
989	(65536-24) / 12 = 5459
990
991	The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
992	this number may be lower.
993
994igmp_max_msf - INTEGER
995	Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a
996	multicast group.
997	Default: 10
998
999igmp_qrv - INTEGER
1000	Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1).
1001	Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1)
1002	Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1003
1004force_igmp_version - INTEGER
1005	0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback
1006	    allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier
1007	    Present timer expires.
1008	1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if
1009	    receive IGMPv2/v3 query.
1010	2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive
1011	    IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query.
1012	3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0.
1013
1014	Note: this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376
1015	Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could
1016	ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make
1017	this value as default 0 is recommended.
1018
1019conf/interface/*  changes special settings per interface (where
1020"interface" is the name of your network interface)
1021
1022conf/all/*	  is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
1023
1024log_martians - BOOLEAN
1025	Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
1026	log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1027	conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
1028	it will be disabled otherwise
1029
1030accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1031	Accept ICMP redirect messages.
1032	accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
1033	- both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
1034	  forwarding for the interface is enabled
1035	or
1036	- at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
1037	  case forwarding for the interface is disabled
1038	accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
1039	default TRUE (host)
1040		FALSE (router)
1041
1042forwarding - BOOLEAN
1043	Enable IP forwarding on this interface.  This controls whether packets
1044	received _on_ this interface can be forwarded.
1045
1046mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
1047	Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
1048	and a multicast routing daemon is required.
1049	conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
1050	routing	for the interface
1051
1052medium_id - INTEGER
1053	Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
1054	are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
1055	the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
1056	The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
1057	to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
1058
1059	Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
1060	the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
1061	two devices attached to different media.
1062
1063proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
1064	Do proxy arp.
1065	proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1066	conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
1067	it will be disabled otherwise
1068
1069proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
1070	Private VLAN proxy arp.
1071	Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
1072	(from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
1073
1074	This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
1075	3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
1076	communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
1077	the upstream router.  As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
1078	to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
1079	router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
1080	proxy_arp.
1081
1082	This technology is known by different names:
1083	  In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
1084	  Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
1085	  Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
1086	  Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
1087
1088shared_media - BOOLEAN
1089	Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
1090	Overrides secure_redirects.
1091	shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1092	conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
1093	it will be disabled otherwise
1094	default TRUE
1095
1096secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
1097	Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the
1098	interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect
1099	rules still apply.
1100	Overridden by shared_media.
1101	secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1102	conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
1103	it will be disabled otherwise
1104	default TRUE
1105
1106send_redirects - BOOLEAN
1107	Send redirects, if router.
1108	send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1109	conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
1110	it will be disabled otherwise
1111	Default: TRUE
1112
1113bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
1114	Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
1115	not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
1116	BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
1117	conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
1118	for the interface
1119	default FALSE
1120	Not Implemented Yet.
1121
1122accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
1123	Accept packets with SRR option.
1124	conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
1125	with SRR option on the interface
1126	default TRUE (router)
1127		FALSE (host)
1128
1129accept_local - BOOLEAN
1130	Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
1131	suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
1132	local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
1133	default FALSE
1134
1135route_localnet - BOOLEAN
1136	Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination
1137	while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes.
1138	default FALSE
1139
1140rp_filter - INTEGER
1141	0 - No source validation.
1142	1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
1143	    Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
1144	    is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
1145	    By default failed packets are discarded.
1146	2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
1147	    Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
1148	    and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
1149	    the packet check will fail.
1150
1151	Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
1152	to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
1153	or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
1154
1155	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
1156	when doing source validation on the {interface}.
1157
1158	Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
1159	in startup scripts.
1160
1161arp_filter - BOOLEAN
1162	1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
1163	subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
1164	based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
1165	the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
1166	based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
1167	of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
1168
1169	0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
1170	from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
1171	sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
1172	IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
1173	particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
1174	balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
1175
1176	arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1177	conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
1178	it will be disabled otherwise
1179
1180arp_announce - INTEGER
1181	Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
1182	source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
1183	interface:
1184	0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
1185	1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
1186	subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
1187	hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
1188	address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
1189	configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
1190	request we will check all our subnets that include the
1191	target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
1192	such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
1193	address according to the rules for level 2.
1194	2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
1195	In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
1196	and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
1197	the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
1198	for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
1199	interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
1200	local address is found we select the first local address
1201	we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
1202	with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
1203	even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
1204
1205	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
1206
1207	Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
1208	receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
1209	the level announces more valid sender's information.
1210
1211arp_ignore - INTEGER
1212	Define different modes for sending replies in response to
1213	received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
1214	0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
1215	on any interface
1216	1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1217	configured on the incoming interface
1218	2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1219	configured on the incoming interface and both with the
1220	sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
1221	3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
1222	only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
1223	4-7 - reserved
1224	8 - do not reply for all local addresses
1225
1226	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
1227	when ARP request is received on the {interface}
1228
1229arp_notify - BOOLEAN
1230	Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1231	0 - (default): do nothing
1232	1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
1233	    or hardware address changes.
1234
1235arp_accept - BOOLEAN
1236	Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not
1237	already present in the ARP table:
1238	0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
1239	1 - create new entries in the ARP table
1240
1241	Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
1242	ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
1243
1244	If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
1245	gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
1246	if this setting is on or off.
1247
1248mcast_solicit - INTEGER
1249	The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state,
1250	when the associated hardware address is unknown.  Defaults
1251	to 3.
1252
1253ucast_solicit - INTEGER
1254	The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when
1255	the hardware address is being reconfirmed.  Defaults to 3.
1256
1257app_solicit - INTEGER
1258	The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
1259	via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
1260	mcast_resolicit).  Defaults to 0.
1261
1262mcast_resolicit - INTEGER
1263	The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and
1264	app probes in PROBE state.  Defaults to 0.
1265
1266disable_policy - BOOLEAN
1267	Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
1268
1269disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
1270	Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
1271
1272igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1273	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1274	IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place.
1275	Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1276
1277igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1278	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1279	IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place.
1280	Default: 1000 (1 seconds)
1281
1282promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN
1283	When a primary IP address is removed from this interface
1284	promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of
1285	removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses.
1286
1287drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1288	Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer
1289	multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1290	This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC
1291	1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons.
1292	Default: off (0)
1293
1294drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN
1295	Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known
1296	good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1297	(or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1298	Default: off (0)
1299
1300
1301tag - INTEGER
1302	Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
1303	Default value is 0.
1304
1305xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1306	The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4
1307	destination cache entries.  At twice this value the system will
1308	refuse new allocations.
1309
1310igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN
1311	Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the
1312	224.0.0.X range.
1313	Default TRUE
1314
1315Alexey Kuznetsov.
1316kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
1317
1318Updated by:
1319Andi Kleen
1320ak@muc.de
1321Nicolas Delon
1322delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
1323
1324
1325
1326
1327/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
1328
1329IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*.  tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
1330apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
1331
1332bindv6only - BOOLEAN
1333	Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
1334	which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
1335	only.
1336		TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
1337		FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
1338
1339	Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
1340
1341flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN
1342	Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label.
1343	You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the
1344	flow label manager.
1345	TRUE: enabled
1346	FALSE: disabled
1347	Default: TRUE
1348
1349auto_flowlabels - INTEGER
1350	Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the
1351	packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to
1352	identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath
1353	Routing (see RFC 6438).
1354	0: automatic flow labels are completely disabled
1355	1: automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be
1356	   disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL
1357	   socket option
1358	2: automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a
1359	   per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option
1360	3: automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot
1361	   be disabled by the socket option
1362	Default: 1
1363
1364flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN
1365	Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is
1366	reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF
1367	is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437.
1368	TRUE: enabled
1369	FALSE: disabled
1370	Default: true
1371
1372flowlabel_reflect - BOOLEAN
1373	Automatically reflect the flow label. Needed for Path MTU
1374	Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast
1375	environments. See RFC 7690 and:
1376	https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01
1377	TRUE: enabled
1378	FALSE: disabled
1379	Default: FALSE
1380
1381anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN
1382	Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6
1383	echo reply
1384	TRUE:  enabled
1385	FALSE: disabled
1386	Default: FALSE
1387
1388idgen_delay - INTEGER
1389	Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry
1390	privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is
1391	detected.
1392	Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217)
1393
1394idgen_retries - INTEGER
1395	Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy
1396	address if a DAD conflict is detected.
1397	Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217)
1398
1399mld_qrv - INTEGER
1400	Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1).
1401	Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1)
1402	Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1403
1404IPv6 Fragmentation:
1405
1406ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
1407	Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
1408	ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
1409	the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
1410	is reached.
1411
1412ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
1413	See ip6frag_high_thresh
1414
1415ip6frag_time - INTEGER
1416	Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
1417
1418conf/default/*:
1419	Change the interface-specific default settings.
1420
1421
1422conf/all/*:
1423	Change all the interface-specific settings.
1424
1425	[XXX:  Other special features than forwarding?]
1426
1427conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
1428	Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
1429
1430	IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
1431	to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
1432
1433	This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
1434	'forwarding' to the specified value.  See below for details.
1435
1436	This referred to as global forwarding.
1437
1438proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
1439	Do proxy ndp.
1440
1441fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
1442	Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not
1443	associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies).
1444	If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
1445	fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
1446	Default: 0
1447
1448conf/interface/*:
1449	Change special settings per interface.
1450
1451	The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
1452	depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
1453
1454accept_ra - INTEGER
1455	Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
1456
1457	It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
1458	Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
1459	accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
1460	transmitted.
1461
1462	Possible values are:
1463		0 Do not accept Router Advertisements.
1464		1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
1465		2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
1466		  even if forwarding is enabled.
1467
1468	Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1469			    disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1470
1471accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
1472	Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
1473
1474	Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1475			    disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1476
1477accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN
1478	Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine
1479        if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted.
1480        Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended
1481        network loop.
1482
1483	Functional default:
1484           enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled
1485               on a specific interface.
1486	   disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled
1487               on a specific interface.
1488
1489accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER
1490	Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement.
1491
1492	Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this
1493	variable shall be ignored.
1494
1495	Default: 1
1496
1497accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
1498	Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
1499
1500	Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1501			    disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1502
1503accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER
1504	Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1505
1506	Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall
1507	be ignored.
1508
1509	Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1510			    -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1511
1512accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
1513	Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1514
1515	Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall
1516	be ignored.
1517
1518	Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1519			    -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1520
1521accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
1522	Accept Router Preference in RA.
1523
1524	Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1525			    disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1526
1527accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
1528	Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
1529	disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
1530
1531	Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1532			    disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1533
1534accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1535	Accept Redirects.
1536
1537	Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1538			    disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1539
1540accept_source_route - INTEGER
1541	Accept source routing (routing extension header).
1542
1543	>= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
1544	< 0: Do not accept routing header.
1545
1546	Default: 0
1547
1548autoconf - BOOLEAN
1549	Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
1550	Advertisements.
1551
1552	Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
1553			    disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
1554
1555dad_transmits - INTEGER
1556	The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
1557	Default: 1
1558
1559forwarding - INTEGER
1560	Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
1561
1562	Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
1563	interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
1564
1565	Possible values are:
1566		0 Forwarding disabled
1567		1 Forwarding enabled
1568
1569	FALSE (0):
1570
1571	By default, Host behaviour is assumed.  This means:
1572
1573	1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1574	2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
1575	   Solicitations.
1576	3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
1577	   Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
1578	4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
1579
1580	TRUE (1):
1581
1582	If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
1583	This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1584
1585	1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1586	2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
1587	3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
1588	4. Redirects are ignored.
1589
1590	Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
1591		 otherwise 1 (enabled).
1592
1593hop_limit - INTEGER
1594	Default Hop Limit to set.
1595	Default: 64
1596
1597mtu - INTEGER
1598	Default Maximum Transfer Unit
1599	Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
1600
1601ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
1602	If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses,
1603	which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
1604	Default: 0
1605
1606router_probe_interval - INTEGER
1607	Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
1608	in RFC4191.
1609
1610	Default: 60
1611
1612router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
1613	Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
1614	before sending Router Solicitations.
1615	Default: 1
1616
1617router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
1618	Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
1619	Default: 4
1620
1621router_solicitations - INTEGER
1622	Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
1623	routers are present.
1624	Default: 3
1625
1626use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN
1627	When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations
1628	routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
1629	configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
1630
1631	Default: false
1632
1633use_tempaddr - INTEGER
1634	Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
1635	  <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
1636	  == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
1637	         addresses over temporary addresses.
1638	  >  1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
1639	         addresses over public addresses.
1640	Default:  0 (for most devices)
1641		 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
1642
1643temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
1644	valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1645	Default: 604800 (7 days)
1646
1647temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
1648	Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1649	Default: 86400 (1 day)
1650
1651keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER
1652	Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static
1653	global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed.
1654	  >0 : enabled
1655	   0 : system default
1656	  <0 : disabled
1657
1658	Default: 0 (addresses are removed)
1659
1660max_desync_factor - INTEGER
1661	Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
1662	that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
1663	other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
1664	value is in seconds.
1665	Default: 600
1666
1667regen_max_retry - INTEGER
1668	Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
1669	valid temporary addresses.
1670	Default: 5
1671
1672max_addresses - INTEGER
1673	Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface.  Setting
1674	to zero disables the limitation.  It is not recommended to set this
1675	value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
1676	crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
1677	Default: 16
1678
1679disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
1680	Disable IPv6 operation.  If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
1681	will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
1682	address.
1683	Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
1684
1685	When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
1686	it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
1687	interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
1688
1689	When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
1690	it will dynamically delete all address on the given interface.
1691
1692accept_dad - INTEGER
1693	Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
1694	0: Disable DAD
1695	1: Enable DAD (default)
1696	2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
1697	   link-local address has been found.
1698
1699	DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according
1700	to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad.
1701
1702force_tllao - BOOLEAN
1703	Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
1704	responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
1705	Default: FALSE
1706
1707	Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
1708
1709	"The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
1710	avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
1711	does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
1712	message.  When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
1713	omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
1714	layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
1715	solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
1716	address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
1717	race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
1718	prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
1719
1720ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN
1721	Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1722	0 - (default): do nothing
1723	1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought
1724	    up or hardware address changes.
1725
1726mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1727	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1728	MLDv1 report retransmit will take place.
1729	Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1730
1731mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1732	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1733	MLDv2 report retransmit will take place.
1734	Default: 1000 (1 second)
1735
1736force_mld_version - INTEGER
1737	0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed
1738	1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1
1739	2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2
1740
1741suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER
1742	Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation
1743	with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior:
1744	1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1745	0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1746
1747optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN
1748	Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429).
1749	0: disabled (default)
1750	1: enabled
1751
1752	Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled
1753	if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1,
1754	it will be disabled otherwise.
1755
1756use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
1757	If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during
1758	source address selection.  Preferred addresses will still be chosen
1759	before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source
1760	address selection algorithm.
1761	0: disabled (default)
1762	1: enabled
1763
1764	This will be enabled if at least one of
1765	conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise.
1766
1767stable_secret - IPv6 address
1768	This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6
1769	addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured
1770	ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will
1771	be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the
1772	addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the
1773	secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can
1774	overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused.
1775
1776	It is recommended to generate this secret during installation
1777	of a system and keep it stable after that.
1778
1779	By default the stable secret is unset.
1780
1781drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1782	Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer
1783	multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1784
1785	By default this is turned off.
1786
1787drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
1788	Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
1789	a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1790	(or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1791
1792	By default this is turned off.
1793
1794enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN
1795	Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for
1796	duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal
1797	a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false
1798	detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send.
1799	The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of
1800	conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE.
1801	Default: TRUE
1802
1803icmp/*:
1804ratelimit - INTEGER
1805	Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
1806	0 to disable any limiting,
1807	otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1808	Default: 1000
1809
1810xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1811	The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6
1812	destination cache entries.  At twice this value the system will
1813	refuse new allocations.
1814
1815
1816IPv6 Update by:
1817Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
1818YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
1819
1820
1821/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
1822
1823bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
1824	1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
1825	0 : disable this.
1826	Default: 1
1827
1828bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
1829	1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
1830	0 : disable this.
1831	Default: 1
1832
1833bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
1834	1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
1835	0 : disable this.
1836	Default: 1
1837
1838bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
1839	1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
1840	0 : disable this.
1841	Default: 0
1842
1843bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
1844	1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
1845	0 : disable this.
1846	Default: 0
1847
1848bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
1849	1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
1850	interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the vlan.
1851	This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the REDIRECT
1852	target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces.  When no matching
1853	vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input device is
1854	set to the bridge interface.
1855	0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
1856	Default: 0
1857
1858proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
1859
1860addip_enable - BOOLEAN
1861	Enable or disable extension of  Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1862	(ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061.  This extension provides
1863	the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
1864	associations.
1865
1866	1: Enable extension.
1867
1868	0: Disable extension.
1869
1870	Default: 0
1871
1872pf_enable - INTEGER
1873	Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value
1874	of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of
1875	both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state.
1876	Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace
1877	application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of
1878	pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans
1879	or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is
1880	enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable
1881	and disable pf state. See:
1882	https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for
1883	details.
1884
1885	1: Enable pf.
1886
1887	0: Disable pf.
1888
1889	Default: 1
1890
1891addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
1892	Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
1893	authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
1894	addresses.  This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
1895	would not be able to hijack associations.  However, older
1896	implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
1897	allowing the ADD-IP extension.  For reasons of interoperability,
1898	we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
1899	authentication requirement.
1900
1901	1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication.  This
1902	   should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
1903	   with older implementations.
1904
1905	0: Enforce the authentication requirement
1906
1907	Default: 0
1908
1909auth_enable - BOOLEAN
1910	Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension.  This extension
1911	provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
1912	required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1913	(ADD-IP) extension.
1914
1915	1: Enable this extension.
1916	0: Disable this extension.
1917
1918	Default: 0
1919
1920prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
1921	Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
1922	is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
1923
1924	1: Enable extension
1925	0: Disable
1926
1927	Default: 1
1928
1929max_burst - INTEGER
1930	The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent.  It
1931	controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
1932
1933	Default: 4
1934
1935association_max_retrans - INTEGER
1936	Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
1937	attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable.  If this value
1938	is exceeded, the association is terminated.
1939
1940	Default: 10
1941
1942max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
1943	The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
1944	that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
1945	unreachable and terminating.
1946
1947	Default: 8
1948
1949path_max_retrans - INTEGER
1950	The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
1951	path.  Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
1952	unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
1953	association is multihomed.
1954
1955	Default: 5
1956
1957pf_retrans - INTEGER
1958	The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path
1959	before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one
1960	exist).  Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that
1961	passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used.  Its only
1962	deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack.  This
1963	setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without
1964	having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value.  See:
1965	http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt
1966	for details.  Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans
1967	disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can
1968	be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to
1969	disable pf state.
1970
1971	Default: 0
1972
1973rto_initial - INTEGER
1974	The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
1975	in calculating round trip times.  This is the initial time interval
1976	for retransmissions.
1977
1978	Default: 3000
1979
1980rto_max - INTEGER
1981	The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout.  This
1982	is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
1983
1984	Default: 60000
1985
1986rto_min - INTEGER
1987	The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout.  This
1988	is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
1989
1990	Default: 1000
1991
1992hb_interval - INTEGER
1993	The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks.  These chunks
1994	are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
1995	a given path between 2 associations.
1996
1997	Default: 30000
1998
1999sack_timeout - INTEGER
2000	The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
2001	to send a SACK.
2002
2003	Default: 200
2004
2005valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
2006	The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds).  The cookie
2007	is used during association establishment.
2008
2009	Default: 60000
2010
2011cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
2012	Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
2013	that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
2014
2015	1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
2016	0: Disable
2017
2018	Default: 1
2019
2020cookie_hmac_alg - STRING
2021	Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by
2022	a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk.
2023	Valid values are:
2024	* md5
2025	* sha1
2026	* none
2027	Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the
2028	configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and
2029	CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1).
2030
2031	Default: Dependent on configuration.  MD5 if available, else SHA1 if
2032	available, else none.
2033
2034rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
2035	Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
2036	association.   SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
2037	associations on a single socket.  When using this capability, it is
2038	possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
2039	of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
2040	consuming all of the receive buffer space.  To work around this,
2041	the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
2042	to each association instead of the socket.  This prevents the described
2043	blocking.
2044
2045	1: rcvbuf space is per association
2046	0: rcvbuf space is per socket
2047
2048	Default: 0
2049
2050sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
2051	Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
2052
2053	1: Send buffer is tracked per association
2054	0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
2055
2056	Default: 0
2057
2058sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
2059	Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2060
2061	min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
2062	memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
2063	this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
2064
2065	pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
2066
2067	max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2068
2069	Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
2070
2071sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2072	Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2073	ignored.
2074
2075	min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
2076	It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2077	under moderate memory pressure.
2078
2079	Default: 1 page
2080
2081sctp_wmem  - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2082	Currently this tunable has no effect.
2083
2084addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
2085	Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
2086
2087	0   - Disable IPv4 address scoping
2088	1   - Enable IPv4 address scoping
2089	2   - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
2090	3   - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
2091
2092	Default: 1
2093
2094
2095/proc/sys/net/core/*
2096	Please see: Documentation/sysctl/net.txt for descriptions of these entries.
2097
2098
2099/proc/sys/net/unix/*
2100max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
2101	The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
2102
2103	Default: 10
2104
2105
2106UNDOCUMENTED:
2107
2108/proc/sys/net/irda/*
2109	fast_poll_increase FIXME
2110	warn_noreply_time FIXME
2111	discovery_slots FIXME
2112	slot_timeout FIXME
2113	max_baud_rate FIXME
2114	discovery_timeout FIXME
2115	lap_keepalive_time FIXME
2116	max_noreply_time FIXME
2117	max_tx_data_size FIXME
2118	max_tx_window FIXME
2119	min_tx_turn_time FIXME
2120