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