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1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
2
3=========
4IP Sysctl
5=========
6
7/proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables
8==============================
9
10ip_forward - BOOLEAN
11	- 0 - disabled (default)
12	- not 0 - enabled
13
14	Forward Packets between interfaces.
15
16	This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
17	parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
18	for routers)
19
20ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
21	Default value of TTL field (Time To Live) for outgoing (but not
22	forwarded) IP packets. Should be between 1 and 255 inclusive.
23	Default: 64 (as recommended by RFC1700)
24
25ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER
26	Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled in mode 1 and a
27	fragmentation-required ICMP is received, the PMTU to this
28	destination will be set to the smallest of the old MTU to
29	this destination and min_pmtu (see below). You will need
30	to raise min_pmtu to the smallest interface MTU on your system
31	manually if you want to avoid locally generated fragments.
32
33	In mode 2 incoming Path MTU Discovery messages will be
34	discarded. Outgoing frames are handled the same as in mode 1,
35	implicitly setting IP_PMTUDISC_DONT on every created socket.
36
37	Mode 3 is a hardened pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only
38	accept fragmentation-needed errors if the underlying protocol
39	can verify them besides a plain socket lookup. Current
40	protocols for which pmtu events will be honored are TCP, SCTP
41	and DCCP as they verify e.g. the sequence number or the
42	association. This mode should not be enabled globally but is
43	only intended to secure e.g. name servers in namespaces where
44	TCP path mtu must still work but path MTU information of other
45	protocols should be discarded. If enabled globally this mode
46	could break other protocols.
47
48	Possible values: 0-3
49
50	Default: FALSE
51
52min_pmtu - INTEGER
53	default 552 - minimum Path MTU. Unless this is changed mannually,
54	each cached pmtu will never be lower than this setting.
55
56ip_forward_use_pmtu - BOOLEAN
57	By default we don't trust protocol path MTUs while forwarding
58	because they could be easily forged and can lead to unwanted
59	fragmentation by the router.
60	You only need to enable this if you have user-space software
61	which tries to discover path mtus by itself and depends on the
62	kernel honoring this information. This is normally not the
63	case.
64
65	Default: 0 (disabled)
66
67	Possible values:
68
69	- 0 - disabled
70	- 1 - enabled
71
72fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
73	Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv4 reply packets that are not
74	associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMP echo replies).
75	If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
76	fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
77
78	Default: 0
79
80fib_multipath_use_neigh - BOOLEAN
81	Use status of existing neighbor entry when determining nexthop for
82	multipath routes. If disabled, neighbor information is not used and
83	packets could be directed to a failed nexthop. Only valid for kernels
84	built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled.
85
86	Default: 0 (disabled)
87
88	Possible values:
89
90	- 0 - disabled
91	- 1 - enabled
92
93fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
94	Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes. Only valid
95	for kernels built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled.
96
97	Default: 0 (Layer 3)
98
99	Possible values:
100
101	- 0 - Layer 3
102	- 1 - Layer 4
103	- 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
104	- 3 - Custom multipath hash. Fields used for multipath hash calculation
105	  are determined by fib_multipath_hash_fields sysctl
106
107fib_multipath_hash_fields - UNSIGNED INTEGER
108	When fib_multipath_hash_policy is set to 3 (custom multipath hash), the
109	fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by this
110	sysctl.
111
112	This value is a bitmask which enables various fields for multipath hash
113	calculation.
114
115	Possible fields are:
116
117	====== ============================
118	0x0001 Source IP address
119	0x0002 Destination IP address
120	0x0004 IP protocol
121	0x0008 Unused (Flow Label)
122	0x0010 Source port
123	0x0020 Destination port
124	0x0040 Inner source IP address
125	0x0080 Inner destination IP address
126	0x0100 Inner IP protocol
127	0x0200 Inner Flow Label
128	0x0400 Inner source port
129	0x0800 Inner destination port
130	====== ============================
131
132	Default: 0x0007 (source IP, destination IP and IP protocol)
133
134fib_sync_mem - UNSIGNED INTEGER
135	Amount of dirty memory from fib entries that can be backlogged before
136	synchronize_rcu is forced.
137
138	Default: 512kB   Minimum: 64kB   Maximum: 64MB
139
140ip_forward_update_priority - INTEGER
141	Whether to update SKB priority from "TOS" field in IPv4 header after it
142	is forwarded. The new SKB priority is mapped from TOS field value
143	according to an rt_tos2priority table (see e.g. man tc-prio).
144
145	Default: 1 (Update priority.)
146
147	Possible values:
148
149	- 0 - Do not update priority.
150	- 1 - Update priority.
151
152route/max_size - INTEGER
153	Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel.  Increase
154	this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
155
156	From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
157	as route cache is no longer used.
158
159neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
160	Minimum number of entries to keep.  Garbage collector will not
161	purge entries if there are fewer than this number.
162
163	Default: 128
164
165neigh/default/gc_thresh2 - INTEGER
166	Threshold when garbage collector becomes more aggressive about
167	purging entries. Entries older than 5 seconds will be cleared
168	when over this number.
169
170	Default: 512
171
172neigh/default/gc_thresh3 - INTEGER
173	Maximum number of non-PERMANENT neighbor entries allowed.  Increase
174	this when using large numbers of interfaces and when communicating
175	with large numbers of directly-connected peers.
176
177	Default: 1024
178
179neigh/default/unres_qlen_bytes - INTEGER
180	The maximum number of bytes which may be used by packets
181	queued for each	unresolved address by other network layers.
182	(added in linux 3.3)
183
184	Setting negative value is meaningless and will return error.
185
186	Default: SK_WMEM_MAX, (same as net.core.wmem_default).
187
188		Exact value depends on architecture and kernel options,
189		but should be enough to allow queuing 256 packets
190		of medium size.
191
192neigh/default/unres_qlen - INTEGER
193	The maximum number of packets which may be queued for each
194	unresolved address by other network layers.
195
196	(deprecated in linux 3.3) : use unres_qlen_bytes instead.
197
198	Prior to linux 3.3, the default value is 3 which may cause
199	unexpected packet loss. The current default value is calculated
200	according to default value of unres_qlen_bytes and true size of
201	packet.
202
203	Default: 101
204
205neigh/default/interval_probe_time_ms - INTEGER
206	The probe interval for neighbor entries with NTF_MANAGED flag,
207	the min value is 1.
208
209	Default: 5000
210
211mtu_expires - INTEGER
212	Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
213
214min_adv_mss - INTEGER
215	The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
216	never be lower than this setting.
217
218fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER
219        Whether to emit RTM_NEWROUTE notifications whenever RTM_F_OFFLOAD/
220        RTM_F_TRAP/RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flags are changed.
221
222        After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an
223        acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel,
224        but not necessarily in hardware.
225        It is also possible for a route already installed in hardware to change
226        its action and therefore its flags. For example, a host route that is
227        trapping packets can be "promoted" to perform decapsulation following
228        the installation of an IPinIP/VXLAN tunnel.
229        The notifications will indicate to user-space the state of the route.
230
231        Default: 0 (Do not emit notifications.)
232
233        Possible values:
234
235        - 0 - Do not emit notifications.
236        - 1 - Emit notifications.
237        - 2 - Emit notifications only for RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag change.
238
239IP Fragmentation:
240
241ipfrag_high_thresh - LONG INTEGER
242	Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments.
243
244ipfrag_low_thresh - LONG INTEGER
245	(Obsolete since linux-4.17)
246	Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments before the kernel
247	begins to remove incomplete fragment queues to free up resources.
248	The kernel still accepts new fragments for defragmentation.
249
250ipfrag_time - INTEGER
251	Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
252
253ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
254	ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
255	maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
256	common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
257	not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
258	IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
259	probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
260	have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
261	is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
262	ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
263	address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
264	address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
265	lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
266	started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
267
268	Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
269	result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
270	reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
271	performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
272	likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
273	from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
274	Default: 64
275
276bc_forwarding - INTEGER
277	bc_forwarding enables the feature described in rfc1812#section-5.3.5.2
278	and rfc2644. It allows the router to forward directed broadcast.
279	To enable this feature, the 'all' entry and the input interface entry
280	should be set to 1.
281	Default: 0
282
283INET peer storage
284=================
285
286inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
287	The approximate size of the storage.  Starting from this threshold
288	entries will be thrown aggressively.  This threshold also determines
289	entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
290	passes.  More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
291
292inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
293	Minimum time-to-live of entries.  Should be enough to cover fragment
294	time-to-live on the reassembling side.  This minimum time-to-live  is
295	guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
296	Measured in seconds.
297
298inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
299	Maximum time-to-live of entries.  Unused entries will expire after
300	this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
301	when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
302	Measured in seconds.
303
304TCP variables
305=============
306
307somaxconn - INTEGER
308	Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
309	Defaults to 4096. (Was 128 before linux-5.4)
310	See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning for TCP sockets.
311
312tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
313	If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
314	reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
315	occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
316	option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
317	cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
318	option can harm clients of your server.
319
320tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
321	Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
322	(if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
323	if it is <= 0.
324
325	Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
326
327	Default: 1
328
329tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
330	Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
331	processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
332	tcp_available_congestion_control.
333
334	Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
335
336tcp_app_win - INTEGER
337	Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
338	buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
339
340	Possible values are [0, 31], inclusive.
341
342	Default: 31
343
344tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN
345	Enable TCP auto corking :
346	When applications do consecutive small write()/sendmsg() system calls,
347	we try to coalesce these small writes as much as possible, to lower
348	total amount of sent packets. This is done if at least one prior
349	packet for the flow is waiting in Qdisc queues or device transmit
350	queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior
351	when they know how/when to uncork their sockets.
352
353	Default : 1
354
355tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
356	Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
357	More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
358	but not loaded.
359
360tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
361	The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
362	Path MTU discovery (MTU probing).  If MTU probing is enabled,
363	this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
364
365tcp_mtu_probe_floor - INTEGER
366	If MTU probing is enabled this caps the minimum MSS used for search_low
367	for the connection.
368
369	Default : 48
370
371tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER
372	TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option,
373	as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691.
374
375	If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss,
376	it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss.
377
378	Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
379
380tcp_congestion_control - STRING
381	Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
382	connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
383	additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
384	Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
385	For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice
386	is inherited.
387
388	[see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
389
390tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
391	Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
392
393tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER
394	Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail
395	losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that
396	TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below)
397
398	Possible values:
399
400		- 0 disables TLP
401		- 3 or 4 enables TLP
402
403	Default: 3
404
405tcp_ecn - INTEGER
406	Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by TCP.
407	ECN is used only when both ends of the TCP connection indicate
408	support for it.  This feature is useful in avoiding losses due
409	to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal
410	congestion before having to drop packets.
411
412	Possible values are:
413
414		=  =====================================================
415		0  Disable ECN.  Neither initiate nor accept ECN.
416		1  Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections and
417		   also request ECN on outgoing connection attempts.
418		2  Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections
419		   but do not request ECN on outgoing connections.
420		=  =====================================================
421
422	Default: 2
423
424tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN
425	If the kernel detects that ECN connection misbehaves, enable fall
426	back to non-ECN. Currently, this knob implements the fallback
427	from RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1., but we reserve that in future,
428	additional detection mechanisms could be implemented under this
429	knob. The value	is not used, if tcp_ecn or per route (or congestion
430	control) ECN settings are disabled.
431
432	Default: 1 (fallback enabled)
433
434tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
435	This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
436
437tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
438	The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any
439	application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state
440	before it is aborted at the local end.  While a perfectly
441	valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an
442	orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait
443	forever for the remote to close its end of the connection.
444
445	Cf. tcp_max_orphans
446
447	Default: 60 seconds
448
449tcp_frto - INTEGER
450	Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682.
451	F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
452	timeouts.  It is particularly beneficial in networks where the
453	RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only
454	modification. It does not require any support from the peer.
455
456	By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO.
457
458tcp_fwmark_accept - BOOLEAN
459	If set, incoming connections to listening sockets that do not have a
460	socket mark will set the mark of the accepting socket to the fwmark of
461	the incoming SYN packet. This will cause all packets on that connection
462	(starting from the first SYNACK) to be sent with that fwmark. The
463	listening socket's mark is unchanged. Listening sockets that already
464	have a fwmark set via setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_MARK, ...) are
465	unaffected.
466
467	Default: 0
468
469tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER
470	Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments
471	in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing
472	connection but that are invalid due to any of these reasons:
473
474	  (a) out-of-window sequence number,
475	  (b) out-of-window acknowledgment number, or
476	  (c) PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) check failure
477
478	This can help mitigate simple "ack loop" DoS attacks, wherein
479	a buggy or malicious middlebox or man-in-the-middle can
480	rewrite TCP header fields in manner that causes each endpoint
481	to think that the other is sending invalid TCP segments, thus
482	causing each side to send an unterminating stream of duplicate
483	acknowledgments for invalid segments.
484
485	Using 0 disables rate-limiting of dupacks in response to
486	invalid segments; otherwise this value specifies the minimal
487	space between sending such dupacks, in milliseconds.
488
489	Default: 500 (milliseconds).
490
491tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
492	How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
493	Default: 2hours.
494
495tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
496	How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
497	connection is broken. Default value: 9.
498
499tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
500	How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
501	tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
502	after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
503	will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
504
505tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
506	Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index.
507	Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work
508	across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets
509	derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in
510	which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was
511	compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
512
513	Default: 0 (disabled)
514
515tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
516	This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
517
518tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
519	Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
520	held by system.	If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
521	reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
522	only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
523	or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
524	(probably, after increasing installed memory),
525	if network conditions require more than default value,
526	and tune network services to linger and kill such states
527	more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
528	up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
529
530tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
531	Maximal number of remembered connection requests (SYN_RECV),
532	which have not received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
533
534	This is a per-listener limit.
535
536	The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
537	increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
538
539	If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
540
541	Remember to also check /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
542	A SYN_RECV request socket consumes about 304 bytes of memory.
543
544tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
545	Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
546	If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
547	and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
548	simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
549	but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
550	if network conditions require more than default value.
551
552tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
553	min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
554	memory appetite.
555
556	pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
557	of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
558	pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
559	under "min".
560
561	max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
562
563	Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
564	memory.
565
566tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER
567	The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT.
568	A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher)
569	minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic
570	engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT
571	inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds.
572
573	Possible values: 0 - 86400 (1 day)
574
575	Default: 300
576
577tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
578	If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
579	automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
580	match the size required by the path for full throughput.  Enabled by
581	default.
582
583tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
584	Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery.  Takes three
585	values:
586
587	- 0 - Disabled
588	- 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
589	- 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
590
591tcp_probe_interval - UNSIGNED INTEGER
592	Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
593	Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
594	per RFC4821.
595
596tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
597	Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
598	will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
599	is 8 bytes.
600
601tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
602	By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
603	when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
604	near future can use these to set initial conditions.  Usually, this
605	increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
606	degradation.  If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
607	connections.
608
609tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
610	Controls whether TCP saves ssthresh metrics in the route cache.
611
612	Default is 1, which disables ssthresh metrics.
613
614tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
615	This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
616	when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
617	See tcp_retries2 for more details.
618
619	The default value is 8.
620
621	If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
622	you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
623	may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
624
625tcp_recovery - INTEGER
626	This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery
627	features.
628
629	=========   =============================================================
630	RACK: 0x1   enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost
631		    retransmissions and tail drops. It also subsumes and disables
632		    RFC6675 recovery for SACK connections.
633
634	RACK: 0x2   makes RACK's reordering window static (min_rtt/4).
635
636	RACK: 0x4   disables RACK's DUPACK threshold heuristic
637	=========   =============================================================
638
639	Default: 0x1
640
641tcp_reflect_tos - BOOLEAN
642	For listening sockets, reuse the DSCP value of the initial SYN message
643	for outgoing packets. This allows to have both directions of a TCP
644	stream to use the same DSCP value, assuming DSCP remains unchanged for
645	the lifetime of the connection.
646
647	This options affects both IPv4 and IPv6.
648
649	Default: 0 (disabled)
650
651tcp_reordering - INTEGER
652	Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
653	TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level
654	between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering
655
656	Default: 3
657
658tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER
659	Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
660	300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it
661	if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode)
662
663	Default: 300
664
665tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
666	Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
667	On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
668	certain TCP stacks.
669
670tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
671	This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
672	something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
673	and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
674	See tcp_retries2 for more details.
675
676	RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
677	default.
678
679tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
680	This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
681	when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
682	Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
683	exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
684	retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
685
686	The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
687	seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
688	TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
689	hypothetical timeout.
690
691	RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
692	which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
693
694tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
695	If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
696	we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
697	assassination.
698
699	Default: 0
700
701tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
702	min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
703	It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
704	pressure.
705
706	Default: 4K
707
708	default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
709	This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
710	Default: 131072 bytes.
711	This value results in initial window of 65535.
712
713	max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
714	selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
715	net.core.rmem_max.  Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
716	automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
717	case this value is ignored.
718	Default: between 131072 and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
719
720tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
721	Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
722
723tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns - LONG INTEGER
724	TCP tries to reduce number of SACK sent, using a timer
725	based on 5% of SRTT, capped by this sysctl, in nano seconds.
726	The default is 1ms, based on TSO autosizing period.
727
728	Default : 1,000,000 ns (1 ms)
729
730tcp_comp_sack_slack_ns - LONG INTEGER
731	This sysctl control the slack used when arming the
732	timer used by SACK compression. This gives extra time
733	for small RTT flows, and reduces system overhead by allowing
734	opportunistic reduction of timer interrupts.
735
736	Default : 100,000 ns (100 us)
737
738tcp_comp_sack_nr - INTEGER
739	Max number of SACK that can be compressed.
740	Using 0 disables SACK compression.
741
742	Default : 44
743
744tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
745	If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
746	window after an idle period.  An idle period is defined at
747	the current RTO.  If unset, the congestion window will not
748	be timed out after an idle period.
749
750	Default: 1
751
752tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
753	Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
754	Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
755	Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
756
757	Default: FALSE
758
759tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
760	Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
761	be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
762	is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission
763	with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
764	for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
765
766tcp_syncookies - INTEGER
767	Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
768	Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
769	overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
770	Default: 1
771
772	Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
773	It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
774	against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
775	in your logs, but investigation	shows that they occur
776	because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
777	another parameters until this warning disappear.
778	See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
779
780	syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
781	to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
782	of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
783	but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
784	SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
785	is seriously misconfigured.
786
787	If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
788	network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
789	unconditionally generation of syncookies.
790
791tcp_migrate_req - BOOLEAN
792	The incoming connection is tied to a specific listening socket when
793	the initial SYN packet is received during the three-way handshake.
794	When a listener is closed, in-flight request sockets during the
795	handshake and established sockets in the accept queue are aborted.
796
797	If the listener has SO_REUSEPORT enabled, other listeners on the
798	same port should have been able to accept such connections. This
799	option makes it possible to migrate such child sockets to another
800	listener after close() or shutdown().
801
802	The BPF_SK_REUSEPORT_SELECT_OR_MIGRATE type of eBPF program should
803	usually be used to define the policy to pick an alive listener.
804	Otherwise, the kernel will randomly pick an alive listener only if
805	this option is enabled.
806
807	Note that migration between listeners with different settings may
808	crash applications. Let's say migration happens from listener A to
809	B, and only B has TCP_SAVE_SYN enabled. B cannot read SYN data from
810	the requests migrated from A. To avoid such a situation, cancel
811	migration by returning SK_DROP in the type of eBPF program, or
812	disable this option.
813
814	Default: 0
815
816tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
817	Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening
818	SYN packet.
819
820	The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client
821	then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag,
822	rather than connect() to send data in SYN.
823
824	The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then
825	either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or
826	enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with
827	the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog.
828
829	The values (bitmap) are
830
831	=====  ======== ======================================================
832	  0x1  (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
833	  0x2  (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in
834			a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the
835			application before 3-way handshake finishes.
836	  0x4  (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie
837			availability and without a cookie option.
838	0x200  (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
839	0x400  (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by
840			default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option.
841	=====  ======== ======================================================
842
843	Default: 0x1
844
845	Note that additional client or server features are only
846	effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively.
847
848tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER
849	Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets
850	when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens.
851	This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues
852	get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to
853	initial value when the blackhole issue goes away.
854	0 to disable the blackhole detection.
855
856	By default, it is set to 0 (feature is disabled).
857
858tcp_fastopen_key - list of comma separated 32-digit hexadecimal INTEGERs
859	The list consists of a primary key and an optional backup key. The
860	primary key is used for both creating and validating cookies, while the
861	optional backup key is only used for validating cookies. The purpose of
862	the backup key is to maximize TFO validation when keys are rotated.
863
864	A randomly chosen primary key may be configured by the kernel if
865	the tcp_fastopen sysctl is set to 0x400 (see above), or if the
866	TCP_FASTOPEN setsockopt() optname is set and a key has not been
867	previously configured via sysctl. If keys are configured via
868	setsockopt() by using the TCP_FASTOPEN_KEY optname, then those
869	per-socket keys will be used instead of any keys that are specified via
870	sysctl.
871
872	A key is specified as 4 8-digit hexadecimal integers which are separated
873	by a '-' as: xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx. Leading zeros may be
874	omitted. A primary and a backup key may be specified by separating them
875	by a comma. If only one key is specified, it becomes the primary key and
876	any previously configured backup keys are removed.
877
878tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
879	Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
880	will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value
881	is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission
882	with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
883	for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
884
885tcp_timestamps - INTEGER
886	Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
887
888	- 0: Disabled.
889	- 1: Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323 and use random offset for
890	  each connection rather than only using the current time.
891	- 2: Like 1, but without random offsets.
892
893	Default: 1
894
895tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER
896	Minimal number of segments per TSO frame.
897
898	Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames,
899	depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets.
900	For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big
901	TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets
902	if available window is too small.
903
904	Default: 2
905
906tcp_tso_rtt_log - INTEGER
907	Adjustment of TSO packet sizes based on min_rtt
908
909	Starting from linux-5.18, TCP autosizing can be tweaked
910	for flows having small RTT.
911
912	Old autosizing was splitting the pacing budget to send 1024 TSO
913	per second.
914
915	tso_packet_size = sk->sk_pacing_rate / 1024;
916
917	With the new mechanism, we increase this TSO sizing using:
918
919	distance = min_rtt_usec / (2^tcp_tso_rtt_log)
920	tso_packet_size += gso_max_size >> distance;
921
922	This means that flows between very close hosts can use bigger
923	TSO packets, reducing their cpu costs.
924
925	If you want to use the old autosizing, set this sysctl to 0.
926
927	Default: 9  (2^9 = 512 usec)
928
929tcp_pacing_ss_ratio - INTEGER
930	sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
931	to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
932	If TCP is in slow start, tcp_pacing_ss_ratio is applied
933	to let TCP probe for bigger speeds, assuming cwnd can be
934	doubled every other RTT.
935
936	Default: 200
937
938tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER
939	sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
940	to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
941	If TCP is in congestion avoidance phase, tcp_pacing_ca_ratio
942	is applied to conservatively probe for bigger throughput.
943
944	Default: 120
945
946tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
947	This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
948	can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
949	The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
950	building larger TSO frames.
951
952	Default: 3
953
954tcp_tw_reuse - INTEGER
955	Enable reuse of TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
956	safe from protocol viewpoint.
957
958	- 0 - disable
959	- 1 - global enable
960	- 2 - enable for loopback traffic only
961
962	It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
963	experts.
964
965	Default: 2
966
967tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
968	Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
969
970tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
971	min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
972	Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
973
974	Default: 4K
975
976	default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets.  This
977	value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
978
979	It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
980
981	Default: 16K
982
983	max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
984	send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
985	net.core.wmem_max.  Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
986	automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
987	this value is ignored.
988
989	Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
990
991tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER
992	A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue,
993	thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll()
994	reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per
995	socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will
996	also not add new buffers if the limit is hit.
997
998	This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for
999	sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change
1000	to the global variable has immediate effect.
1001
1002	Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF)
1003
1004tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
1005	If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
1006	remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
1007	If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
1008	not receive a window scaling option from them.
1009
1010	Default: 0
1011
1012tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
1013	Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
1014	If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
1015	determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
1016	As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
1017	timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
1018	initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
1019	non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
1020	For more information on thin streams, see
1021	Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.rst
1022
1023	Default: 0
1024
1025tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER
1026	Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket.
1027	TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it
1028	gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can
1029	result in a large amount of packets queued on the local machine
1030	(e.g.: qdiscs, CPU backlog, or device) hurting latency of other
1031	flows, for typical pfifo_fast qdiscs.  tcp_limit_output_bytes
1032	limits the number of bytes on qdisc or device to reduce artificial
1033	RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat.
1034
1035	Default: 1048576 (16 * 65536)
1036
1037tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
1038	Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
1039	in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
1040	Note that this per netns rate limit can allow some side channel
1041	attacks and probably should not be enabled.
1042	TCP stack implements per TCP socket limits anyway.
1043	Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1044
1045tcp_ehash_entries - INTEGER
1046	Show the number of hash buckets for TCP sockets in the current
1047	networking namespace.
1048
1049	A negative value means the networking namespace does not own its
1050	hash buckets and shares the initial networking namespace's one.
1051
1052tcp_child_ehash_entries - INTEGER
1053	Control the number of hash buckets for TCP sockets in the child
1054	networking namespace, which must be set before clone() or unshare().
1055
1056	If the value is not 0, the kernel uses a value rounded up to 2^n
1057	as the actual hash bucket size.  0 is a special value, meaning
1058	the child networking namespace will share the initial networking
1059	namespace's hash buckets.
1060
1061	Note that the child will use the global one in case the kernel
1062	fails to allocate enough memory.  In addition, the global hash
1063	buckets are spread over available NUMA nodes, but the allocation
1064	of the child hash table depends on the current process's NUMA
1065	policy, which could result in performance differences.
1066
1067	Note also that the default value of tcp_max_tw_buckets and
1068	tcp_max_syn_backlog depend on the hash bucket size.
1069
1070	Possible values: 0, 2^n (n: 0 - 24 (16Mi))
1071
1072	Default: 0
1073
1074UDP variables
1075=============
1076
1077udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
1078	Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
1079	across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
1080	being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
1081	originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
1082	CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
1083
1084	Default: 0 (disabled)
1085
1086udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
1087	Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
1088
1089	min: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
1090
1091	pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
1092
1093	max: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
1094
1095	Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
1096
1097udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
1098	Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
1099	Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
1100	total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
1101
1102	Default: 4K
1103
1104udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
1105	UDP does not have tx memory accounting and this tunable has no effect.
1106
1107RAW variables
1108=============
1109
1110raw_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
1111	Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
1112	across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
1113	being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
1114	originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
1115	CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
1116
1117	Default: 1 (enabled)
1118
1119CIPSOv4 Variables
1120=================
1121
1122cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
1123	If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
1124	cache.  If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
1125	miss.  However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
1126	invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
1127	off and the cache will always be "safe".
1128
1129	Default: 1
1130
1131cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
1132	The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
1133	hash bucket containing a number of cache entries.  This variable limits
1134	the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value is, the
1135	more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached.  When the number of
1136	entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
1137	causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
1138
1139	Default: 10
1140
1141cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
1142	Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
1143	the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
1144	This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
1145	categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
1146
1147	Default: 0
1148
1149cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
1150	If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
1151	ip_options_compile() is called.  If unset, relax the checks done during
1152	ip_options_compile().  Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
1153	where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
1154	result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
1155	with other implementations that require strict checking.
1156
1157	Default: 0
1158
1159IP Variables
1160============
1161
1162ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
1163	Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
1164	choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
1165	second the last local port number.
1166	If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity
1167	(one even and one odd value).
1168	Must be greater than or equal to ip_unprivileged_port_start.
1169	The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively.
1170
1171ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
1172	Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
1173	applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
1174	assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
1175	number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
1176
1177	The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
1178	list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
1179	10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
1180	ports and update the current list with the one given in the
1181	input.
1182
1183	Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
1184	settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
1185	when determining which ports are available for automatic port
1186	assignments.
1187
1188	You can reserve ports which are not in the current
1189	ip_local_port_range, e.g.::
1190
1191	    $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
1192	    32000	60999
1193	    $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
1194	    8080,9148
1195
1196	although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
1197	if later the port range is changed to a value that will
1198	include the reserved ports. Also keep in mind, that overlapping
1199	of these ranges may affect probability of selecting ephemeral
1200	ports which are right after block of reserved ports.
1201
1202	Default: Empty
1203
1204ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER
1205	This is a per-namespace sysctl.  It defines the first
1206	unprivileged port in the network namespace.  Privileged ports
1207	require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them.
1208	To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0.  They must not
1209	overlap with the ip_local_port_range.
1210
1211	Default: 1024
1212
1213ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
1214	If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
1215	which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
1216
1217	Default: 0
1218
1219ip_autobind_reuse - BOOLEAN
1220	By default, bind() does not select the ports automatically even if
1221	the new socket and all sockets bound to the port have SO_REUSEADDR.
1222	ip_autobind_reuse allows bind() to reuse the port and this is useful
1223	when you use bind()+connect(), but may break some applications.
1224	The preferred solution is to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT and this
1225	option should only be set by experts.
1226	Default: 0
1227
1228ip_dynaddr - INTEGER
1229	If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
1230	If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
1231	message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
1232	occurs.
1233
1234	Default: 0
1235
1236ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN
1237	Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for
1238	certain kinds of local sockets.  Currently we only do this
1239	for established TCP and connected UDP sockets.
1240
1241	It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that
1242	reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it.
1243
1244	Default: 1
1245
1246ping_group_range - 2 INTEGERS
1247	Restrict ICMP_PROTO datagram sockets to users in the group range.
1248	The default is "1 0", meaning, that nobody (not even root) may
1249	create ping sockets.  Setting it to "100 100" would grant permissions
1250	to the single group. "0 4294967294" would enable it for the world, "100
1251	4294967294" would enable it for the users, but not daemons.
1252
1253tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
1254	Enable early demux for established TCP sockets.
1255
1256	Default: 1
1257
1258udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
1259	Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if
1260	your system could experience more unconnected load.
1261
1262	Default: 1
1263
1264icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
1265	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
1266	requests sent to it.
1267
1268	Default: 0
1269
1270icmp_echo_enable_probe - BOOLEAN
1271        If set to one, then the kernel will respond to RFC 8335 PROBE
1272        requests sent to it.
1273
1274        Default: 0
1275
1276icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
1277	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
1278	TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
1279
1280	Default: 1
1281
1282icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
1283	Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
1284	icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
1285	0 to disable any limiting,
1286	otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1287	Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number
1288	of ICMP packets	sent on all targets.
1289
1290	Default: 1000
1291
1292icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER
1293	Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host.
1294	Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are
1295	controlled by this limit. For security reasons, the precise count
1296	of messages per second is randomized.
1297
1298	Default: 1000
1299
1300icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER
1301	icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second,
1302	while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets.
1303	For security reasons, the precise burst size is randomized.
1304
1305	Default: 50
1306
1307icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
1308	Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
1309
1310	Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
1311
1312	Default mask:     0000001100000011000 (6168)
1313
1314	Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
1315
1316		= =========================
1317		0 Echo Reply
1318		3 Destination Unreachable [1]_
1319		4 Source Quench [1]_
1320		5 Redirect
1321		8 Echo Request
1322		B Time Exceeded [1]_
1323		C Parameter Problem [1]_
1324		D Timestamp Request
1325		E Timestamp Reply
1326		F Info Request
1327		G Info Reply
1328		H Address Mask Request
1329		I Address Mask Reply
1330		= =========================
1331
1332	.. [1] These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
1333
1334icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
1335	Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
1336	frames.  Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
1337	If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
1338	will avoid log file clutter.
1339
1340	Default: 1
1341
1342icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
1343
1344	If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
1345	the exiting interface.
1346
1347	If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
1348	the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
1349	This is the behaviour many network administrators will expect from
1350	a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
1351	much easier.
1352
1353	Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
1354	then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
1355	has one will be used regardless of this setting.
1356
1357	Default: 0
1358
1359igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
1360	Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
1361	Default: 20
1362
1363	Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
1364	report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
1365	datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
1366	intend to).
1367
1368	The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group
1369	report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
1370
1371	M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
1372
1373	Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
1374	So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
1375
1376	(65536-24) / 12 = 5459
1377
1378	The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
1379	this number may be lower.
1380
1381igmp_max_msf - INTEGER
1382	Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a
1383	multicast group.
1384
1385	Default: 10
1386
1387igmp_qrv - INTEGER
1388	Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1).
1389
1390	Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1)
1391
1392	Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1393
1394force_igmp_version - INTEGER
1395	- 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback
1396	  allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier
1397	  Present timer expires.
1398	- 1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if
1399	  receive IGMPv2/v3 query.
1400	- 2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive
1401	  IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query.
1402	- 3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0.
1403
1404	.. note::
1405
1406	   this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376
1407	   Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could
1408	   ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make
1409	   this value as default 0 is recommended.
1410
1411``conf/interface/*``
1412	changes special settings per interface (where
1413	interface" is the name of your network interface)
1414
1415``conf/all/*``
1416	  is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
1417
1418log_martians - BOOLEAN
1419	Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
1420	log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1421	conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
1422	it will be disabled otherwise
1423
1424accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1425	Accept ICMP redirect messages.
1426	accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
1427
1428	- both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
1429	  forwarding for the interface is enabled
1430
1431	or
1432
1433	- at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
1434	  case forwarding for the interface is disabled
1435
1436	accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
1437
1438	default:
1439
1440		- TRUE (host)
1441		- FALSE (router)
1442
1443forwarding - BOOLEAN
1444	Enable IP forwarding on this interface.  This controls whether packets
1445	received _on_ this interface can be forwarded.
1446
1447mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
1448	Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
1449	and a multicast routing daemon is required.
1450	conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
1451	routing	for the interface
1452
1453medium_id - INTEGER
1454	Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
1455	are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
1456	the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
1457	The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
1458	to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
1459
1460	Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
1461	the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
1462	two devices attached to different media.
1463
1464proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
1465	Do proxy arp.
1466
1467	proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1468	conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
1469	it will be disabled otherwise
1470
1471proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
1472	Private VLAN proxy arp.
1473
1474	Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
1475	(from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
1476
1477	This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
1478	3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
1479	communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
1480	the upstream router.  As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
1481	to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
1482	router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
1483	proxy_arp.
1484
1485	This technology is known by different names:
1486
1487	  In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
1488	  Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
1489	  Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
1490	  Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
1491
1492shared_media - BOOLEAN
1493	Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
1494	Overrides secure_redirects.
1495
1496	shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1497	conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
1498	it will be disabled otherwise
1499
1500	default TRUE
1501
1502secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
1503	Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the
1504	interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect
1505	rules still apply.
1506
1507	Overridden by shared_media.
1508
1509	secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1510	conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
1511	it will be disabled otherwise
1512
1513	default TRUE
1514
1515send_redirects - BOOLEAN
1516	Send redirects, if router.
1517
1518	send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1519	conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
1520	it will be disabled otherwise
1521
1522	Default: TRUE
1523
1524bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
1525	Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
1526	not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
1527	BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
1528	conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
1529	for the interface
1530
1531	default FALSE
1532
1533	Not Implemented Yet.
1534
1535accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
1536	Accept packets with SRR option.
1537	conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
1538	with SRR option on the interface
1539
1540	default
1541
1542		- TRUE (router)
1543		- FALSE (host)
1544
1545accept_local - BOOLEAN
1546	Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
1547	suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
1548	local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
1549	default FALSE
1550
1551route_localnet - BOOLEAN
1552	Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination
1553	while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes.
1554
1555	default FALSE
1556
1557rp_filter - INTEGER
1558	- 0 - No source validation.
1559	- 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
1560	  Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
1561	  is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
1562	  By default failed packets are discarded.
1563	- 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
1564	  Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
1565	  and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
1566	  the packet check will fail.
1567
1568	Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
1569	to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
1570	or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
1571
1572	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
1573	when doing source validation on the {interface}.
1574
1575	Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
1576	in startup scripts.
1577
1578src_valid_mark - BOOLEAN
1579	- 0 - The fwmark of the packet is not included in reverse path
1580	  route lookup.  This allows for asymmetric routing configurations
1581	  utilizing the fwmark in only one direction, e.g., transparent
1582	  proxying.
1583
1584	- 1 - The fwmark of the packet is included in reverse path route
1585	  lookup.  This permits rp_filter to function when the fwmark is
1586	  used for routing traffic in both directions.
1587
1588	This setting also affects the utilization of fmwark when
1589	performing source address selection for ICMP replies, or
1590	determining addresses stored for the IPOPT_TS_TSANDADDR and
1591	IPOPT_RR IP options.
1592
1593	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/src_valid_mark is used.
1594
1595	Default value is 0.
1596
1597arp_filter - BOOLEAN
1598	- 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
1599	  subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
1600	  based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
1601	  the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
1602	  based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
1603	  of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
1604
1605	- 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
1606	  from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
1607	  sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
1608	  IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
1609	  particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
1610	  balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
1611
1612	arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1613	conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
1614	it will be disabled otherwise
1615
1616arp_announce - INTEGER
1617	Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
1618	source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
1619	interface:
1620
1621	- 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
1622	- 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
1623	  subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
1624	  hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
1625	  address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
1626	  configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
1627	  request we will check all our subnets that include the
1628	  target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
1629	  such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
1630	  address according to the rules for level 2.
1631	- 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
1632	  In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
1633	  and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
1634	  the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
1635	  for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
1636	  interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
1637	  local address is found we select the first local address
1638	  we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
1639	  with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
1640	  even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
1641
1642	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
1643
1644	Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
1645	receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
1646	the level announces more valid sender's information.
1647
1648arp_ignore - INTEGER
1649	Define different modes for sending replies in response to
1650	received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
1651
1652	- 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
1653	  on any interface
1654	- 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1655	  configured on the incoming interface
1656	- 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1657	  configured on the incoming interface and both with the
1658	  sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
1659	- 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
1660	  only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
1661	- 4-7 - reserved
1662	- 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
1663
1664	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
1665	when ARP request is received on the {interface}
1666
1667arp_notify - BOOLEAN
1668	Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1669
1670	 ==  ==========================================================
1671	  0  (default): do nothing
1672	  1  Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
1673	     or hardware address changes.
1674	 ==  ==========================================================
1675
1676arp_accept - INTEGER
1677	Define behavior for accepting gratuitous ARP (garp) frames from devices
1678	that are not already present in the ARP table:
1679
1680	- 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
1681	- 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
1682	- 2 - create new entries only if the source IP address is in the same
1683	  subnet as an address configured on the interface that received the
1684	  garp message.
1685
1686	Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
1687	ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
1688
1689	If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
1690	gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
1691	if this setting is on or off.
1692
1693arp_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN
1694	Clears the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events. This option is important for
1695	wireless devices where the ARP cache should not be cleared when roaming
1696	between access points on the same network. In most cases this should
1697	remain as the default (1).
1698
1699	- 1 - (default): Clear the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events
1700	- 0 - Do not clear ARP cache on NOCARRIER events
1701
1702mcast_solicit - INTEGER
1703	The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state,
1704	when the associated hardware address is unknown.  Defaults
1705	to 3.
1706
1707ucast_solicit - INTEGER
1708	The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when
1709	the hardware address is being reconfirmed.  Defaults to 3.
1710
1711app_solicit - INTEGER
1712	The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
1713	via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
1714	mcast_resolicit).  Defaults to 0.
1715
1716mcast_resolicit - INTEGER
1717	The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and
1718	app probes in PROBE state.  Defaults to 0.
1719
1720disable_policy - BOOLEAN
1721	Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
1722
1723disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
1724	Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
1725
1726igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1727	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1728	IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place.
1729
1730	Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1731
1732igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1733	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1734	IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place.
1735
1736	Default: 1000 (1 seconds)
1737
1738ignore_routes_with_linkdown - BOOLEAN
1739        Ignore routes whose link is down when performing a FIB lookup.
1740
1741promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN
1742	When a primary IP address is removed from this interface
1743	promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of
1744	removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses.
1745
1746drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1747	Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer
1748	multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1749
1750	This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC
1751	1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons.
1752
1753	Default: off (0)
1754
1755drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN
1756	Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known
1757	good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1758	(or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1759
1760	Default: off (0)
1761
1762
1763tag - INTEGER
1764	Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
1765
1766	Default value is 0.
1767
1768xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1769	(Obsolete since linux-4.14)
1770	The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4
1771	destination cache entries.  At twice this value the system will
1772	refuse new allocations.
1773
1774igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN
1775	Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the
1776	224.0.0.X range.
1777
1778	Default TRUE
1779
1780Alexey Kuznetsov.
1781kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
1782
1783Updated by:
1784
1785- Andi Kleen
1786  ak@muc.de
1787- Nicolas Delon
1788  delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
1789
1790
1791
1792
1793/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables
1794==============================
1795
1796IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*.  tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
1797apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
1798
1799bindv6only - BOOLEAN
1800	Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
1801	which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
1802	only.
1803
1804		- TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
1805		- FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
1806
1807	Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
1808
1809flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN
1810	Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label.
1811	You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the
1812	flow label manager.
1813
1814	- TRUE: enabled
1815	- FALSE: disabled
1816
1817	Default: TRUE
1818
1819auto_flowlabels - INTEGER
1820	Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the
1821	packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to
1822	identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath
1823	Routing (see RFC 6438).
1824
1825	=  ===========================================================
1826	0  automatic flow labels are completely disabled
1827	1  automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be
1828	   disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL
1829	   socket option
1830	2  automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a
1831	   per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option
1832	3  automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot
1833	   be disabled by the socket option
1834	=  ===========================================================
1835
1836	Default: 1
1837
1838flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN
1839	Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is
1840	reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF
1841	is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437.
1842
1843	- TRUE: enabled
1844	- FALSE: disabled
1845
1846	Default: true
1847
1848flowlabel_reflect - INTEGER
1849	Control flow label reflection. Needed for Path MTU
1850	Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast
1851	environments. See RFC 7690 and:
1852	https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01
1853
1854	This is a bitmask.
1855
1856	- 1: enabled for established flows
1857
1858	  Note that this prevents automatic flowlabel changes, as done
1859	  in "tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission"
1860	  and "tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit"
1861
1862	- 2: enabled for TCP RESET packets (no active listener)
1863	  If set, a RST packet sent in response to a SYN packet on a closed
1864	  port will reflect the incoming flow label.
1865
1866	- 4: enabled for ICMPv6 echo reply messages.
1867
1868	Default: 0
1869
1870fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
1871	Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes.
1872
1873	Default: 0 (Layer 3)
1874
1875	Possible values:
1876
1877	- 0 - Layer 3 (source and destination addresses plus flow label)
1878	- 1 - Layer 4 (standard 5-tuple)
1879	- 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
1880	- 3 - Custom multipath hash. Fields used for multipath hash calculation
1881	  are determined by fib_multipath_hash_fields sysctl
1882
1883fib_multipath_hash_fields - UNSIGNED INTEGER
1884	When fib_multipath_hash_policy is set to 3 (custom multipath hash), the
1885	fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by this
1886	sysctl.
1887
1888	This value is a bitmask which enables various fields for multipath hash
1889	calculation.
1890
1891	Possible fields are:
1892
1893	====== ============================
1894	0x0001 Source IP address
1895	0x0002 Destination IP address
1896	0x0004 IP protocol
1897	0x0008 Flow Label
1898	0x0010 Source port
1899	0x0020 Destination port
1900	0x0040 Inner source IP address
1901	0x0080 Inner destination IP address
1902	0x0100 Inner IP protocol
1903	0x0200 Inner Flow Label
1904	0x0400 Inner source port
1905	0x0800 Inner destination port
1906	====== ============================
1907
1908	Default: 0x0007 (source IP, destination IP and IP protocol)
1909
1910anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN
1911	Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6
1912	echo reply
1913
1914	- TRUE:  enabled
1915	- FALSE: disabled
1916
1917	Default: FALSE
1918
1919idgen_delay - INTEGER
1920	Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry
1921	privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is
1922	detected.
1923
1924	Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217)
1925
1926idgen_retries - INTEGER
1927	Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy
1928	address if a DAD conflict is detected.
1929
1930	Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217)
1931
1932mld_qrv - INTEGER
1933	Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1).
1934
1935	Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1)
1936
1937	Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1938
1939max_dst_opts_number - INTEGER
1940	Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Destination
1941	options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1942	then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1943	TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1944
1945	Default: 8
1946
1947max_hbh_opts_number - INTEGER
1948	Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Hop-by-Hop
1949	options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1950	then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1951	TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1952
1953	Default: 8
1954
1955max_dst_opts_length - INTEGER
1956	Maximum length allowed for a Destination options extension
1957	header.
1958
1959	Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1960
1961max_hbh_length - INTEGER
1962	Maximum length allowed for a Hop-by-Hop options extension
1963	header.
1964
1965	Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1966
1967skip_notify_on_dev_down - BOOLEAN
1968	Controls whether an RTM_DELROUTE message is generated for routes
1969	removed when a device is taken down or deleted. IPv4 does not
1970	generate this message; IPv6 does by default. Setting this sysctl
1971	to true skips the message, making IPv4 and IPv6 on par in relying
1972	on userspace caches to track link events and evict routes.
1973
1974	Default: false (generate message)
1975
1976nexthop_compat_mode - BOOLEAN
1977	New nexthop API provides a means for managing nexthops independent of
1978	prefixes. Backwards compatibilty with old route format is enabled by
1979	default which means route dumps and notifications contain the new
1980	nexthop attribute but also the full, expanded nexthop definition.
1981	Further, updates or deletes of a nexthop configuration generate route
1982	notifications for each fib entry using the nexthop. Once a system
1983	understands the new API, this sysctl can be disabled to achieve full
1984	performance benefits of the new API by disabling the nexthop expansion
1985	and extraneous notifications.
1986	Default: true (backward compat mode)
1987
1988fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER
1989        Whether to emit RTM_NEWROUTE notifications whenever RTM_F_OFFLOAD/
1990        RTM_F_TRAP/RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flags are changed.
1991
1992        After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an
1993        acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel,
1994        but not necessarily in hardware.
1995        It is also possible for a route already installed in hardware to change
1996        its action and therefore its flags. For example, a host route that is
1997        trapping packets can be "promoted" to perform decapsulation following
1998        the installation of an IPinIP/VXLAN tunnel.
1999        The notifications will indicate to user-space the state of the route.
2000
2001        Default: 0 (Do not emit notifications.)
2002
2003        Possible values:
2004
2005        - 0 - Do not emit notifications.
2006        - 1 - Emit notifications.
2007        - 2 - Emit notifications only for RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag change.
2008
2009ioam6_id - INTEGER
2010        Define the IOAM id of this node. Uses only 24 bits out of 32 in total.
2011
2012        Min: 0
2013        Max: 0xFFFFFF
2014
2015        Default: 0xFFFFFF
2016
2017ioam6_id_wide - LONG INTEGER
2018        Define the wide IOAM id of this node. Uses only 56 bits out of 64 in
2019        total. Can be different from ioam6_id.
2020
2021        Min: 0
2022        Max: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
2023
2024        Default: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
2025
2026IPv6 Fragmentation:
2027
2028ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
2029	Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
2030	ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
2031	the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
2032	is reached.
2033
2034ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
2035	See ip6frag_high_thresh
2036
2037ip6frag_time - INTEGER
2038	Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
2039
2040``conf/default/*``:
2041	Change the interface-specific default settings.
2042
2043	These settings would be used during creating new interfaces.
2044
2045
2046``conf/all/*``:
2047	Change all the interface-specific settings.
2048
2049	[XXX:  Other special features than forwarding?]
2050
2051conf/all/disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
2052	Changing this value is same as changing ``conf/default/disable_ipv6``
2053	setting and also all per-interface ``disable_ipv6`` settings to the same
2054	value.
2055
2056	Reading this value does not have any particular meaning. It does not say
2057	whether IPv6 support is enabled or disabled. Returned value can be 1
2058	also in the case when some interface has ``disable_ipv6`` set to 0 and
2059	has configured IPv6 addresses.
2060
2061conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
2062	Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
2063
2064	IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
2065	to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
2066
2067	This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
2068	'forwarding' to the specified value.  See below for details.
2069
2070	This referred to as global forwarding.
2071
2072proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
2073	Do proxy ndp.
2074
2075fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
2076	Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not
2077	associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies).
2078	If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
2079	fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
2080
2081	Default: 0
2082
2083``conf/interface/*``:
2084	Change special settings per interface.
2085
2086	The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
2087	depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
2088
2089accept_ra - INTEGER
2090	Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
2091
2092	It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
2093	Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
2094	accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
2095	transmitted.
2096
2097	Possible values are:
2098
2099		==  ===========================================================
2100		 0  Do not accept Router Advertisements.
2101		 1  Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
2102		 2  Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
2103		    even if forwarding is enabled.
2104		==  ===========================================================
2105
2106	Functional default:
2107
2108		- enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
2109		- disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
2110
2111accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
2112	Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
2113
2114	Functional default:
2115
2116		- enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2117		- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2118
2119ra_defrtr_metric - UNSIGNED INTEGER
2120	Route metric for default route learned in Router Advertisement. This value
2121	will be assigned as metric for the default route learned via IPv6 Router
2122	Advertisement. Takes affect only if accept_ra_defrtr is enabled.
2123
2124	Possible values:
2125		1 to 0xFFFFFFFF
2126
2127		Default: IP6_RT_PRIO_USER i.e. 1024.
2128
2129accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN
2130	Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine
2131	if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted.
2132
2133	Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended
2134	network loop.
2135
2136	Functional default:
2137
2138	   - enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled
2139	     on a specific interface.
2140	   - disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled
2141	     on a specific interface.
2142
2143accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER
2144	Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement.
2145
2146	Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this
2147	variable shall be ignored.
2148
2149	Default: 1
2150
2151accept_ra_min_lft - INTEGER
2152	Minimum acceptable lifetime value in Router Advertisement.
2153
2154	RA sections with a lifetime less than this value shall be
2155	ignored. Zero lifetimes stay unaffected.
2156
2157	Default: 0
2158
2159accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
2160	Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
2161
2162	Functional default:
2163
2164		- enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2165		- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2166
2167accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER
2168	Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
2169
2170	Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall
2171	be ignored.
2172
2173	Functional default:
2174
2175		* 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
2176		* -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
2177
2178accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
2179	Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
2180
2181	Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall
2182	be ignored.
2183
2184	Functional default:
2185
2186		* 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
2187		* -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
2188
2189accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
2190	Accept Router Preference in RA.
2191
2192	Functional default:
2193
2194		- enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2195		- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2196
2197accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
2198	Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
2199	disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
2200
2201	Functional default:
2202
2203		- enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2204		- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2205
2206accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
2207	Accept Redirects.
2208
2209	Functional default:
2210
2211		- enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
2212		- disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
2213
2214accept_source_route - INTEGER
2215	Accept source routing (routing extension header).
2216
2217	- >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
2218	- < 0: Do not accept routing header.
2219
2220	Default: 0
2221
2222autoconf - BOOLEAN
2223	Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
2224	Advertisements.
2225
2226	Functional default:
2227
2228		- enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
2229		- disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
2230
2231dad_transmits - INTEGER
2232	The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
2233
2234	Default: 1
2235
2236forwarding - INTEGER
2237	Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
2238
2239	.. note::
2240
2241	   It is recommended to have the same setting on all
2242	   interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
2243
2244	Possible values are:
2245
2246		- 0 Forwarding disabled
2247		- 1 Forwarding enabled
2248
2249	**FALSE (0)**:
2250
2251	By default, Host behaviour is assumed.  This means:
2252
2253	1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
2254	2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
2255	   Solicitations.
2256	3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
2257	   Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
2258	4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
2259
2260	**TRUE (1)**:
2261
2262	If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
2263	This means exactly the reverse from the above:
2264
2265	1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
2266	2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
2267	3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
2268	4. Redirects are ignored.
2269
2270	Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
2271	otherwise 1 (enabled).
2272
2273hop_limit - INTEGER
2274	Default Hop Limit to set.
2275
2276	Default: 64
2277
2278mtu - INTEGER
2279	Default Maximum Transfer Unit
2280
2281	Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
2282
2283ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
2284	If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses,
2285	which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
2286
2287	Default: 0
2288
2289router_probe_interval - INTEGER
2290	Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
2291	in RFC4191.
2292
2293	Default: 60
2294
2295router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
2296	Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
2297	before sending Router Solicitations.
2298
2299	Default: 1
2300
2301router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
2302	Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
2303
2304	Default: 4
2305
2306router_solicitations - INTEGER
2307	Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
2308	routers are present.
2309
2310	Default: 3
2311
2312use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN
2313	When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations
2314	routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
2315	configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
2316
2317	Default: false
2318
2319use_tempaddr - INTEGER
2320	Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
2321
2322	  * <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
2323	  * == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
2324	    addresses over temporary addresses.
2325	  * >  1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
2326	    addresses over public addresses.
2327
2328	Default:
2329
2330		* 0 (for most devices)
2331		* -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
2332
2333temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
2334	valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
2335
2336	Default: 172800 (2 days)
2337
2338temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
2339	Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
2340
2341	Default: 86400 (1 day)
2342
2343keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER
2344	Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static
2345	global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed.
2346
2347	*   >0 : enabled
2348	*    0 : system default
2349	*   <0 : disabled
2350
2351	Default: 0 (addresses are removed)
2352
2353max_desync_factor - INTEGER
2354	Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
2355	that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
2356	other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
2357	value is in seconds.
2358
2359	Default: 600
2360
2361regen_max_retry - INTEGER
2362	Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
2363	valid temporary addresses.
2364
2365	Default: 5
2366
2367max_addresses - INTEGER
2368	Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface.  Setting
2369	to zero disables the limitation.  It is not recommended to set this
2370	value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
2371	crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
2372
2373	Default: 16
2374
2375disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
2376	Disable IPv6 operation.  If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
2377	will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
2378	address.
2379
2380	Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
2381
2382	When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
2383	it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
2384	interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
2385
2386	When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
2387	it will dynamically delete all addresses and routes on the given
2388	interface. From now on it will not possible to add addresses/routes
2389	to the selected interface.
2390
2391accept_dad - INTEGER
2392	Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
2393
2394	 == ==============================================================
2395	  0  Disable DAD
2396	  1  Enable DAD (default)
2397	  2  Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
2398	     link-local address has been found.
2399	 == ==============================================================
2400
2401	DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according
2402	to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad.
2403
2404force_tllao - BOOLEAN
2405	Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
2406	responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
2407
2408	Default: FALSE
2409
2410	Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
2411
2412	"The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
2413	avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
2414	does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
2415	message.  When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
2416	omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
2417	layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
2418	solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
2419	address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
2420	race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
2421	prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
2422
2423ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN
2424	Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
2425
2426	* 0 - (default): do nothing
2427	* 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought
2428	  up or hardware address changes.
2429
2430ndisc_tclass - INTEGER
2431	The IPv6 Traffic Class to use by default when sending IPv6 Neighbor
2432	Discovery (Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor
2433	Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, Redirect) messages.
2434	These 8 bits can be interpreted as 6 high order bits holding the DSCP
2435	value and 2 low order bits representing ECN (which you probably want
2436	to leave cleared).
2437
2438	* 0 - (default)
2439
2440ndisc_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN
2441	Clears the neighbor discovery table on NOCARRIER events. This option is
2442	important for wireless devices where the neighbor discovery cache should
2443	not be cleared when roaming between access points on the same network.
2444	In most cases this should remain as the default (1).
2445
2446	- 1 - (default): Clear neighbor discover cache on NOCARRIER events.
2447	- 0 - Do not clear neighbor discovery cache on NOCARRIER events.
2448
2449mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
2450	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
2451	MLDv1 report retransmit will take place.
2452
2453	Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
2454
2455mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
2456	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
2457	MLDv2 report retransmit will take place.
2458
2459	Default: 1000 (1 second)
2460
2461force_mld_version - INTEGER
2462	* 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed
2463	* 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1
2464	* 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2
2465
2466suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER
2467	Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation
2468	with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior:
2469
2470	* 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets
2471	* 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets
2472
2473optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN
2474	Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429).
2475
2476	* 0: disabled (default)
2477	* 1: enabled
2478
2479	Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled
2480	if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1,
2481	it will be disabled otherwise.
2482
2483use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
2484	If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during
2485	source address selection.  Preferred addresses will still be chosen
2486	before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source
2487	address selection algorithm.
2488
2489	* 0: disabled (default)
2490	* 1: enabled
2491
2492	This will be enabled if at least one of
2493	conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise.
2494
2495stable_secret - IPv6 address
2496	This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6
2497	addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured
2498	ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will
2499	be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the
2500	addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the
2501	secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can
2502	overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused.
2503
2504	It is recommended to generate this secret during installation
2505	of a system and keep it stable after that.
2506
2507	By default the stable secret is unset.
2508
2509addr_gen_mode - INTEGER
2510	Defines how link-local and autoconf addresses are generated.
2511
2512	=  =================================================================
2513	0  generate address based on EUI64 (default)
2514	1  do no generate a link-local address, use EUI64 for addresses
2515	   generated from autoconf
2516	2  generate stable privacy addresses, using the secret from
2517	   stable_secret (RFC7217)
2518	3  generate stable privacy addresses, using a random secret if unset
2519	=  =================================================================
2520
2521drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
2522	Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer
2523	multicast (or broadcast) frames.
2524
2525	By default this is turned off.
2526
2527drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
2528	Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
2529	a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
2530	(or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
2531
2532	By default this is turned off.
2533
2534accept_untracked_na - INTEGER
2535	Define behavior for accepting neighbor advertisements from devices that
2536	are absent in the neighbor cache:
2537
2538	- 0 - (default) Do not accept unsolicited and untracked neighbor
2539	  advertisements.
2540
2541	- 1 - Add a new neighbor cache entry in STALE state for routers on
2542	  receiving a neighbor advertisement (either solicited or unsolicited)
2543	  with target link-layer address option specified if no neighbor entry
2544	  is already present for the advertised IPv6 address. Without this knob,
2545	  NAs received for untracked addresses (absent in neighbor cache) are
2546	  silently ignored.
2547
2548	  This is as per router-side behavior documented in RFC9131.
2549
2550	  This has lower precedence than drop_unsolicited_na.
2551
2552	  This will optimize the return path for the initial off-link
2553	  communication that is initiated by a directly connected host, by
2554	  ensuring that the first-hop router which turns on this setting doesn't
2555	  have to buffer the initial return packets to do neighbor-solicitation.
2556	  The prerequisite is that the host is configured to send unsolicited
2557	  neighbor advertisements on interface bringup. This setting should be
2558	  used in conjunction with the ndisc_notify setting on the host to
2559	  satisfy this prerequisite.
2560
2561	- 2 - Extend option (1) to add a new neighbor cache entry only if the
2562	  source IP address is in the same subnet as an address configured on
2563	  the interface that received the neighbor advertisement.
2564
2565enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN
2566	Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for
2567	duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal
2568	a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false
2569	detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send.
2570	The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of
2571	conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE.
2572
2573	Default: TRUE
2574
2575``icmp/*``:
2576===========
2577
2578ratelimit - INTEGER
2579	Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 messages.
2580
2581	0 to disable any limiting,
2582	otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
2583
2584	Default: 1000
2585
2586ratemask - list of comma separated ranges
2587	For ICMPv6 message types matching the ranges in the ratemask, limit
2588	the sending of the message according to ratelimit parameter.
2589
2590	The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
2591	list of ranges (e.g. "0-127,129" for ICMPv6 message type 0 to 127 and
2592	129). Writing to the file will clear all previous ranges of ICMPv6
2593	message types and update the current list with the input.
2594
2595	Refer to: https://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters/icmpv6-parameters.xhtml
2596	for numerical values of ICMPv6 message types, e.g. echo request is 128
2597	and echo reply is 129.
2598
2599	Default: 0-1,3-127 (rate limit ICMPv6 errors except Packet Too Big)
2600
2601echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
2602	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2603	requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol.
2604
2605	Default: 0
2606
2607echo_ignore_multicast - BOOLEAN
2608	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2609	requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol via multicast.
2610
2611	Default: 0
2612
2613echo_ignore_anycast - BOOLEAN
2614	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2615	requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol destined to anycast address.
2616
2617	Default: 0
2618
2619xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER
2620	(Obsolete since linux-4.14)
2621	The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6
2622	destination cache entries.  At twice this value the system will
2623	refuse new allocations.
2624
2625
2626IPv6 Update by:
2627Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
2628YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2629
2630
2631/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
2632=================================
2633
2634bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
2635	- 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
2636	- 0 : disable this.
2637
2638	Default: 1
2639
2640bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
2641	- 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
2642	- 0 : disable this.
2643
2644	Default: 1
2645
2646bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
2647	- 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
2648	- 0 : disable this.
2649
2650	Default: 1
2651
2652bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
2653	- 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
2654	- 0 : disable this.
2655
2656	Default: 0
2657
2658bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
2659	- 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
2660	- 0 : disable this.
2661
2662	Default: 0
2663
2664bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
2665	- 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
2666	  interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the
2667	  vlan. This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the
2668	  REDIRECT target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces.  When no
2669	  matching vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input
2670	  device is set to the bridge interface.
2671
2672	- 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
2673
2674	Default: 0
2675
2676``proc/sys/net/sctp/*`` Variables:
2677==================================
2678
2679addip_enable - BOOLEAN
2680	Enable or disable extension of  Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2681	(ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061.  This extension provides
2682	the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
2683	associations.
2684
2685	1: Enable extension.
2686
2687	0: Disable extension.
2688
2689	Default: 0
2690
2691pf_enable - INTEGER
2692	Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value
2693	of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of
2694	both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state.
2695	Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace
2696	application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of
2697	pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans
2698	or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is
2699	enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable
2700	and disable pf state. See:
2701	https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for
2702	details.
2703
2704	1: Enable pf.
2705
2706	0: Disable pf.
2707
2708	Default: 1
2709
2710pf_expose - INTEGER
2711	Unset or enable/disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state
2712	exposure.  Applications can control the exposure of the PF path state
2713	in the SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event and the SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO
2714	sockopt.   When it's unset, no SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event with
2715	SCTP_ADDR_PF state will be sent and a SCTP_PF-state transport info
2716	can be got via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt;  When it's enabled,
2717	a SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent for a transport becoming
2718	SCTP_PF state and a SCTP_PF-state transport info can be got via
2719	SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt;  When it's diabled, no
2720	SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent and it returns -EACCES when
2721	trying to get a SCTP_PF-state transport info via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO
2722	sockopt.
2723
2724	0: Unset pf state exposure, Compatible with old applications.
2725
2726	1: Disable pf state exposure.
2727
2728	2: Enable pf state exposure.
2729
2730	Default: 0
2731
2732addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
2733	Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
2734	authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
2735	addresses.  This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
2736	would not be able to hijack associations.  However, older
2737	implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
2738	allowing the ADD-IP extension.  For reasons of interoperability,
2739	we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
2740	authentication requirement.
2741
2742	== ===============================================================
2743	1  Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication.  This
2744	   should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
2745	   with older implementations.
2746
2747	0  Enforce the authentication requirement
2748	== ===============================================================
2749
2750	Default: 0
2751
2752auth_enable - BOOLEAN
2753	Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension.  This extension
2754	provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
2755	required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2756	(ADD-IP) extension.
2757
2758	- 1: Enable this extension.
2759	- 0: Disable this extension.
2760
2761	Default: 0
2762
2763prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
2764	Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
2765	is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
2766
2767	- 1: Enable extension
2768	- 0: Disable
2769
2770	Default: 1
2771
2772max_burst - INTEGER
2773	The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent.  It
2774	controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
2775
2776	Default: 4
2777
2778association_max_retrans - INTEGER
2779	Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
2780	attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable.  If this value
2781	is exceeded, the association is terminated.
2782
2783	Default: 10
2784
2785max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
2786	The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
2787	that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
2788	unreachable and terminating.
2789
2790	Default: 8
2791
2792path_max_retrans - INTEGER
2793	The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
2794	path.  Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
2795	unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
2796	association is multihomed.
2797
2798	Default: 5
2799
2800pf_retrans - INTEGER
2801	The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path
2802	before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one
2803	exist).  Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that
2804	passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used.  Its only
2805	deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack.  This
2806	setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without
2807	having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value.  See:
2808	http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt
2809	for details.  Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans
2810	disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can
2811	be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to
2812	disable pf state.
2813
2814	Default: 0
2815
2816ps_retrans - INTEGER
2817	Primary.Switchover.Max.Retrans (PSMR), it's a tunable parameter coming
2818	from section-5 "Primary Path Switchover" in rfc7829.  The primary path
2819	will be changed to another active path when the path error counter on
2820	the old primary path exceeds PSMR, so that "the SCTP sender is allowed
2821	to continue data transmission on a new working path even when the old
2822	primary destination address becomes active again".   Note this feature
2823	is disabled by initializing 'ps_retrans' per netns as 0xffff by default,
2824	and its value can't be less than 'pf_retrans' when changing by sysctl.
2825
2826	Default: 0xffff
2827
2828rto_initial - INTEGER
2829	The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
2830	in calculating round trip times.  This is the initial time interval
2831	for retransmissions.
2832
2833	Default: 3000
2834
2835rto_max - INTEGER
2836	The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout.  This
2837	is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
2838
2839	Default: 60000
2840
2841rto_min - INTEGER
2842	The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout.  This
2843	is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
2844
2845	Default: 1000
2846
2847hb_interval - INTEGER
2848	The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks.  These chunks
2849	are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
2850	a given path between 2 associations.
2851
2852	Default: 30000
2853
2854sack_timeout - INTEGER
2855	The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
2856	to send a SACK.
2857
2858	Default: 200
2859
2860valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
2861	The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds).  The cookie
2862	is used during association establishment.
2863
2864	Default: 60000
2865
2866cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
2867	Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
2868	that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
2869
2870	- 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
2871	- 0: Disable
2872
2873	Default: 1
2874
2875cookie_hmac_alg - STRING
2876	Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by
2877	a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk.
2878	Valid values are:
2879
2880	* md5
2881	* sha1
2882	* none
2883
2884	Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the
2885	configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and
2886	CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1).
2887
2888	Default: Dependent on configuration.  MD5 if available, else SHA1 if
2889	available, else none.
2890
2891rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
2892	Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
2893	association.   SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
2894	associations on a single socket.  When using this capability, it is
2895	possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
2896	of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
2897	consuming all of the receive buffer space.  To work around this,
2898	the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
2899	to each association instead of the socket.  This prevents the described
2900	blocking.
2901
2902	- 1: rcvbuf space is per association
2903	- 0: rcvbuf space is per socket
2904
2905	Default: 0
2906
2907sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
2908	Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
2909
2910	- 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
2911	- 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
2912
2913	Default: 0
2914
2915sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
2916	Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2917
2918	min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
2919	memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
2920	this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
2921
2922	pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
2923
2924	max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2925
2926	Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
2927
2928sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2929	Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2930	ignored.
2931
2932	min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
2933	It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2934	under moderate memory pressure.
2935
2936	Default: 4K
2937
2938sctp_wmem  - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2939	Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2940	ignored.
2941
2942	min: Minimum size of send buffer that can be used by SCTP sockets.
2943	It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2944	under moderate memory pressure.
2945
2946	Default: 4K
2947
2948addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
2949	Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
2950
2951	- 0   - Disable IPv4 address scoping
2952	- 1   - Enable IPv4 address scoping
2953	- 2   - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
2954	- 3   - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
2955
2956	Default: 1
2957
2958udp_port - INTEGER
2959	The listening port for the local UDP tunneling sock. Normally it's
2960	using the IANA-assigned UDP port number 9899 (sctp-tunneling).
2961
2962	This UDP sock is used for processing the incoming UDP-encapsulated
2963	SCTP packets (from RFC6951), and shared by all applications in the
2964	same net namespace. This UDP sock will be closed when the value is
2965	set to 0.
2966
2967	The value will also be used to set the src port of the UDP header
2968	for the outgoing UDP-encapsulated SCTP packets. For the dest port,
2969	please refer to 'encap_port' below.
2970
2971	Default: 0
2972
2973encap_port - INTEGER
2974	The default remote UDP encapsulation port.
2975
2976	This value is used to set the dest port of the UDP header for the
2977	outgoing UDP-encapsulated SCTP packets by default. Users can also
2978	change the value for each sock/asoc/transport by using setsockopt.
2979	For further information, please refer to RFC6951.
2980
2981	Note that when connecting to a remote server, the client should set
2982	this to the port that the UDP tunneling sock on the peer server is
2983	listening to and the local UDP tunneling sock on the client also
2984	must be started. On the server, it would get the encap_port from
2985	the incoming packet's source port.
2986
2987	Default: 0
2988
2989plpmtud_probe_interval - INTEGER
2990        The time interval (in milliseconds) for the PLPMTUD probe timer,
2991        which is configured to expire after this period to receive an
2992        acknowledgment to a probe packet. This is also the time interval
2993        between the probes for the current pmtu when the probe search
2994        is done.
2995
2996        PLPMTUD will be disabled when 0 is set, and other values for it
2997        must be >= 5000.
2998
2999	Default: 0
3000
3001reconf_enable - BOOLEAN
3002        Enable or disable extension of Stream Reconfiguration functionality
3003        specified in RFC6525. This extension provides the ability to "reset"
3004        a stream, and it includes the Parameters of "Outgoing/Incoming SSN
3005        Reset", "SSN/TSN Reset" and "Add Outgoing/Incoming Streams".
3006
3007	- 1: Enable extension.
3008	- 0: Disable extension.
3009
3010	Default: 0
3011
3012intl_enable - BOOLEAN
3013        Enable or disable extension of User Message Interleaving functionality
3014        specified in RFC8260. This extension allows the interleaving of user
3015        messages sent on different streams. With this feature enabled, I-DATA
3016        chunk will replace DATA chunk to carry user messages if also supported
3017        by the peer. Note that to use this feature, one needs to set this option
3018        to 1 and also needs to set socket options SCTP_FRAGMENT_INTERLEAVE to 2
3019        and SCTP_INTERLEAVING_SUPPORTED to 1.
3020
3021	- 1: Enable extension.
3022	- 0: Disable extension.
3023
3024	Default: 0
3025
3026ecn_enable - BOOLEAN
3027        Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by SCTP.
3028        Like in TCP, ECN is used only when both ends of the SCTP connection
3029        indicate support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses
3030        due to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal congestion
3031        before having to drop packets.
3032
3033        1: Enable ecn.
3034        0: Disable ecn.
3035
3036        Default: 1
3037
3038
3039``/proc/sys/net/core/*``
3040========================
3041
3042	Please see: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries.
3043
3044
3045``/proc/sys/net/unix/*``
3046========================
3047
3048max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
3049	The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
3050
3051	Default: 10
3052
3053