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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index 0f1251cce314..bb620f554598 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -8,15 +8,19 @@ IP Sysctl ============================== ip_forward - BOOLEAN - - 0 - disabled (default) - - not 0 - enabled - Forward Packets between interfaces. This variable is special, its change resets all configuration parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812 for routers) + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) + ip_default_ttl - INTEGER Default value of TTL field (Time To Live) for outgoing (but not forwarded) IP packets. Should be between 1 and 255 inclusive. @@ -62,20 +66,25 @@ ip_forward_use_pmtu - BOOLEAN kernel honoring this information. This is normally not the case. - Default: 0 (disabled) - Possible values: - - 0 - disabled - - 1 - enabled + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv4 reply packets that are not associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMP echo replies). - If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the + If disabled, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If enabled, they have the fwmark of the packet they are replying to. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) fib_multipath_use_neigh - BOOLEAN Use status of existing neighbor entry when determining nexthop for @@ -83,12 +92,12 @@ fib_multipath_use_neigh - BOOLEAN packets could be directed to a failed nexthop. Only valid for kernels built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled. - Default: 0 (disabled) - Possible values: - - 0 - disabled - - 1 - enabled + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes. Only valid @@ -368,7 +377,12 @@ tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior when they know how/when to uncork their sockets. - Default : 1 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered. @@ -408,9 +422,16 @@ tcp_congestion_control - STRING tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) + tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail - losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that + losses into fast recovery (RFC8985). Note that TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below) Possible values: @@ -447,7 +468,12 @@ tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN knob. The value is not used, if tcp_ecn or per route (or congestion control) ECN settings are disabled. - Default: 1 (fallback enabled) + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) tcp_fack - BOOLEAN This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore. @@ -474,7 +500,7 @@ tcp_frto - INTEGER By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO. tcp_fwmark_accept - BOOLEAN - If set, incoming connections to listening sockets that do not have a + If enabled, incoming connections to listening sockets that do not have a socket mark will set the mark of the accepting socket to the fwmark of the incoming SYN packet. This will cause all packets on that connection (starting from the first SYNACK) to be sent with that fwmark. The @@ -482,7 +508,12 @@ tcp_fwmark_accept - BOOLEAN have a fwmark set via setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_MARK, ...) are unaffected. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments @@ -528,6 +559,11 @@ tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + Default: 0 (disabled) tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN @@ -593,10 +629,16 @@ tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER Default: 300 tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN - If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to + If enabled, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to - match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by - default. + match the size required by the path for full throughput. + + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three @@ -621,13 +663,26 @@ tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN when the connection closes, so that connections established in the near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance - degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing + degradation. If enabled, TCP will not cache metrics on closing connections. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) + tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save - BOOLEAN Controls whether TCP saves ssthresh metrics in the route cache. + If enabled, ssthresh metrics are disabled. + + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) - Default is 1, which disables ssthresh metrics. + Default: 1 (enabled) tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection, @@ -645,9 +700,11 @@ tcp_recovery - INTEGER features. ========= ============================================================= - RACK: 0x1 enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost - retransmissions and tail drops. It also subsumes and disables - RFC6675 recovery for SACK connections. + RACK: 0x1 enables RACK loss detection, for fast detection of lost + retransmissions and tail drops, and resilience to + reordering. currently, setting this bit to 0 has no + effect, since RACK is the only supported loss detection + algorithm. RACK: 0x2 makes RACK's reordering window static (min_rtt/4). @@ -664,6 +721,11 @@ tcp_reflect_tos - BOOLEAN This options affects both IPv4 and IPv6. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + Default: 0 (disabled) tcp_reordering - INTEGER @@ -685,6 +747,13 @@ tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in certain TCP stacks. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) + tcp_retries1 - INTEGER This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions, @@ -712,11 +781,16 @@ tcp_retries2 - INTEGER which corresponds to a value of at least 8. tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN - If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset, + If enabled, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset, we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT assassination. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets. @@ -740,6 +814,13 @@ tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max tcp_sack - BOOLEAN Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS). + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) + tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns - LONG INTEGER TCP tries to reduce number of SACK sent, using a timer based on 5% of SRTT, capped by this sysctl, in nano seconds. @@ -762,26 +843,41 @@ tcp_comp_sack_nr - INTEGER Default : 44 tcp_backlog_ack_defer - BOOLEAN - If set, user thread processing socket backlog tries sending + If enabled, user thread processing socket backlog tries sending one ACK for the whole queue. This helps to avoid potential long latencies at end of a TCP socket syscall. - Default : true + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN - If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion + If enabled, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not be timed out after an idle period. - Default: 1 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field. - Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on + Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if enabled, Linux might not communicate correctly with them. - Default: FALSE + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will @@ -838,7 +934,12 @@ tcp_migrate_req - BOOLEAN migration by returning SK_DROP in the type of eBPF program, or disable this option. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) tcp_fastopen - INTEGER Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening @@ -1019,6 +1120,13 @@ tcp_tw_reuse_delay - UNSIGNED INTEGER tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) + tcp_shrink_window - BOOLEAN This changes how the TCP receive window is calculated. @@ -1026,13 +1134,15 @@ tcp_shrink_window - BOOLEAN window can be offered, and that TCP implementations MUST ensure that they handle a shrinking window, as specified in RFC 1122. - - 0 - Disabled. The window is never shrunk. - - 1 - Enabled. The window is shrunk when necessary to remain within - the memory limit set by autotuning (sk_rcvbuf). - This only occurs if a non-zero receive window - scaling factor is also in effect. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - The window is never shrunk. + - 1 (enabled) - The window is shrunk when necessary to remain within + the memory limit set by autotuning (sk_rcvbuf). + This only occurs if a non-zero receive window + scaling factor is also in effect. - Default: 0 + Default: 0 (disabled) tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets. @@ -1069,16 +1179,21 @@ tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF) tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN - If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the + If enabled, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity. - If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do + If disabled, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do not receive a window scaling option from them. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams. - If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to + If enabled, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight). As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is @@ -1087,7 +1202,12 @@ tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN For more information on thin streams, see Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.rst - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket. @@ -1139,7 +1259,7 @@ tcp_child_ehash_entries - INTEGER Default: 0 tcp_plb_enabled - BOOLEAN - If set and the underlying congestion control (e.g. DCTCP) supports + If enabled and the underlying congestion control (e.g. DCTCP) supports and enables PLB feature, TCP PLB (Protective Load Balancing) is enabled. PLB is described in the following paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544216.3544226. Based on PLB parameters, @@ -1155,12 +1275,17 @@ tcp_plb_enabled - BOOLEAN by switches to determine next hop. In either case, further host and switch side changes will be needed. - When set, PLB assumes that congestion signal (e.g. ECN) is made + If enabled, PLB assumes that congestion signal (e.g. ECN) is made available and used by congestion control module to estimate a congestion measure (e.g. ce_ratio). PLB needs a congestion measure to make repathing decisions. - Default: FALSE + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) tcp_plb_idle_rehash_rounds - INTEGER Number of consecutive congested rounds (RTT) seen after which @@ -1260,6 +1385,11 @@ udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + Default: 0 (disabled) udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max @@ -1320,19 +1450,29 @@ raw_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + Default: 1 (enabled) CIPSOv4 Variables ================= cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN - If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping - cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a + If enabled, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping + cache. If disabled, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and off and the cache will always be "safe". - Default: 1 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each @@ -1350,17 +1490,27 @@ cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) -cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN - If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when - ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during + Default: 0 (disabled) + +cipso_rbm_strictvalid - BOOLEAN + If enabled, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when + ip_options_compile() is called. If disabled, relax the checks done during ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems with other implementations that require strict checking. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) IP Variables ============ @@ -1417,10 +1567,15 @@ ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER Default: 1024 ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN - If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses, + If enabled, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses, which can be quite useful - but may break some applications. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) ip_autobind_reuse - BOOLEAN By default, bind() does not select the ports automatically even if @@ -1429,7 +1584,13 @@ ip_autobind_reuse - BOOLEAN when you use bind()+connect(), but may break some applications. The preferred solution is to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT and this option should only be set by experts. - Default: 0 + + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) ip_dynaddr - INTEGER If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses. @@ -1447,7 +1608,12 @@ ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it. - Default: 1 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) ping_group_range - 2 INTEGERS Restrict ICMP_PROTO datagram sockets to users in the group range. @@ -1459,31 +1625,56 @@ ping_group_range - 2 INTEGERS tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN Enable early demux for established TCP sockets. - Default: 1 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if your system could experience more unconnected load. - Default: 1 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN - If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO + If enabled, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO requests sent to it. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) icmp_echo_enable_probe - BOOLEAN - If set to one, then the kernel will respond to RFC 8335 PROBE + If enabled, then the kernel will respond to RFC 8335 PROBE requests sent to it. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN - If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and + If enabled, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast. - Default: 1 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches @@ -1540,17 +1731,22 @@ icmp_ratemask - INTEGER icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning. - If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which + If enabled, the kernel will not give such warnings, which will avoid log file clutter. - Default: 1 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN - If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of + If disabled, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of the exiting interface. - If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of + If enabled, the message will be sent with the primary address of the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error. This is the behaviour many network administrators will expect from a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts @@ -1560,7 +1756,12 @@ icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that has one will be used regardless of this setting. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to. @@ -1690,10 +1891,10 @@ proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN This technology is known by different names: - In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation. - Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN. - Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation. - Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft). + - In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation. + - Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN. + - Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation. + - Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft). proxy_delay - INTEGER Delay proxy response. @@ -1910,8 +2111,12 @@ arp_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN between access points on the same network. In most cases this should remain as the default (1). - - 1 - (default): Clear the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events - - 0 - Do not clear ARP cache on NOCARRIER events + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - Do not clear ARP cache on NOCARRIER events + - 1 (enabled) - Clear the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events + + Default: 1 (enabled) mcast_solicit - INTEGER The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state, @@ -1934,9 +2139,23 @@ mcast_resolicit - INTEGER disable_policy - BOOLEAN Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) + disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) + igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place. @@ -1952,11 +2171,25 @@ igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER ignore_routes_with_linkdown - BOOLEAN Ignore routes whose link is down when performing a FIB lookup. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) + promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN When a primary IP address is removed from this interface promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) + drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer multicast (or broadcast) frames. @@ -1964,14 +2197,24 @@ drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC 1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons. - Default: off (0) + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.) - Default: off (0) + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) tag - INTEGER @@ -2015,20 +2258,24 @@ bindv6only - BOOLEAN which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication only. - - TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature - - FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - enable IPv4-mapped address feature + - 1 (enabled) - disable IPv4-mapped address feature - Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493) + Default: 0 (disabled) flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label. You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the flow label manager. - - TRUE: enabled - - FALSE: disabled + Possible values: - Default: TRUE + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) auto_flowlabels - INTEGER Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the @@ -2054,10 +2301,13 @@ flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437. - - TRUE: enabled - - FALSE: disabled + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) - Default: true flowlabel_reflect - INTEGER Control flow label reflection. Needed for Path MTU @@ -2125,10 +2375,13 @@ anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6 echo reply - - TRUE: enabled - - FALSE: disabled + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) - Default: FALSE idgen_delay - INTEGER Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry @@ -2185,7 +2438,12 @@ skip_notify_on_dev_down - BOOLEAN to true skips the message, making IPv4 and IPv6 on par in relying on userspace caches to track link events and evict routes. - Default: false (generate message) + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - generate the message + - 1 (enabled) - skip generating the message + + Default: 0 (disabled) nexthop_compat_mode - BOOLEAN New nexthop API provides a means for managing nexthops independent of @@ -2229,8 +2487,10 @@ fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER ioam6_id - INTEGER Define the IOAM id of this node. Uses only 24 bits out of 32 in total. - Min: 0 - Max: 0xFFFFFF + Possible value range: + + - Min: 0 + - Max: 0xFFFFFF Default: 0xFFFFFF @@ -2238,8 +2498,10 @@ ioam6_id_wide - LONG INTEGER Define the wide IOAM id of this node. Uses only 56 bits out of 64 in total. Can be different from ioam6_id. - Min: 0 - Max: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF + Possible value range: + + - Min: 0 + - Max: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF Default: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF @@ -2281,8 +2543,8 @@ conf/all/disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces. - IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used - to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not. + IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; the ``force_forwarding`` flag must + be used to control which interfaces may forward packets. This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details. @@ -2292,13 +2554,30 @@ conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN Do proxy ndp. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) + +force_forwarding - BOOLEAN + Enable forwarding on this interface only -- regardless of the setting on + ``conf/all/forwarding``. When setting ``conf.all.forwarding`` to 0, + the ``force_forwarding`` flag will be reset on all interfaces. + fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies). - If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the + If disabled, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If enabled, they have the fwmark of the packet they are replying to. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) ``conf/interface/*``: Change special settings per interface. @@ -2389,9 +2668,11 @@ ra_honor_pio_life - BOOLEAN lifetime of an address matching a prefix sent in a Router Advertisement Prefix Information Option. - - If enabled, the PIO valid lifetime will always be honored. - - If disabled, RFC4862 section 5.5.3e is used to determine + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - RFC4862 section 5.5.3e is used to determine the valid lifetime of the address. + - 1 (enabled) - the PIO valid lifetime will always be honored. Default: 0 (disabled) @@ -2403,8 +2684,10 @@ ra_honor_pio_pflag - BOOLEAN P-flag suppresses any effects of the A-flag within the same PIO. For a given PIO, P=1 and A=1 is treated as A=0. - - If disabled, the P-flag is ignored. - - If enabled, the P-flag will disable SLAAC autoconfiguration + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - the P-flag is ignored. + - 1 (enabled) - the P-flag will disable SLAAC autoconfiguration for the given Prefix Information Option. Default: 0 (disabled) @@ -2526,10 +2809,15 @@ mtu - INTEGER Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum) ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN - If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses, + If enabled, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses, which can be quite useful - but may break some applications. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) router_probe_interval - INTEGER Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described @@ -2559,7 +2847,12 @@ use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4). - Default: false + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) use_tempaddr - INTEGER Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041). @@ -2684,10 +2977,14 @@ force_tllao - BOOLEAN ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN Define mode for notification of address and device changes. - * 0 - (default): do nothing - * 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - do nothing + - 1 (enabled) - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought up or hardware address changes. + Default: 0 (disabled) + ndisc_tclass - INTEGER The IPv6 Traffic Class to use by default when sending IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor @@ -2704,8 +3001,12 @@ ndisc_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN not be cleared when roaming between access points on the same network. In most cases this should remain as the default (1). - - 1 - (default): Clear neighbor discover cache on NOCARRIER events. - - 0 - Do not clear neighbor discovery cache on NOCARRIER events. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - Do not clear neighbor discovery cache on NOCARRIER events. + - 1 (enabled) - Clear neighbor discover cache on NOCARRIER events. + + Default: 1 (enabled) mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited @@ -2734,25 +3035,34 @@ suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429). - * 0: disabled (default) - * 1: enabled - Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1, it will be disabled otherwise. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) + + use_optimistic - BOOLEAN If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during source address selection. Preferred addresses will still be chosen before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source address selection algorithm. - * 0: disabled (default) - * 1: enabled - This will be enabled if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) + stable_secret - IPv6 address This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6 addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured @@ -2783,14 +3093,24 @@ drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer multicast (or broadcast) frames. - By default this is turned off. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.) - By default this is turned off. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled). accept_untracked_na - INTEGER Define behavior for accepting neighbor advertisements from devices that @@ -2831,7 +3151,12 @@ enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE. - Default: TRUE + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 1 (enabled) ``icmp/*``: =========== @@ -2860,29 +3185,49 @@ ratemask - list of comma separated ranges Default: 0-1,3-127 (rate limit ICMPv6 errors except Packet Too Big) echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN - If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO + If enabled, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) echo_ignore_multicast - BOOLEAN - If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO + If enabled, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol via multicast. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) echo_ignore_anycast - BOOLEAN - If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO + If enabled, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol destined to anycast address. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) error_anycast_as_unicast - BOOLEAN - If set to 1, then the kernel will respond with ICMP Errors + If enabled, then the kernel will respond with ICMP Errors resulting from requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol destined to anycast address essentially treating anycast as unicast. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + + Default: 0 (disabled) xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER (Obsolete since linux-4.14) @@ -2900,34 +3245,49 @@ YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> ================================= bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN - - 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain. - - 0 : disable this. - Default: 1 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - disable this. + - 1 (enabled) - pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain. + + Default: 1 (enabled) bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN - - 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains. - - 0 : disable this. - Default: 1 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - disable this. + - 1 (enabled) - pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains. + + Default: 1 (enabled) bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN - - 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains. - - 0 : disable this. - Default: 1 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - disable this. + - 1 (enabled) - pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains. + + Default: 1 (enabled) bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN - - 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables. - - 0 : disable this. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - disable this. + - 1 (enabled) - pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables + + Default: 0 (disabled) bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN - - 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables. - - 0 : disable this. - Default: 0 + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - disable this. + - 1 (enabled) - pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables. + + Default: 0 (disabled) bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN - 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan @@ -2950,11 +3310,12 @@ addip_enable - BOOLEAN the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP associations. - 1: Enable extension. + Possible values: - 0: Disable extension. + - 0 (disabled) - disable extension. + - 1 (enabled) - enable extension - Default: 0 + Default: 0 (disabled) pf_enable - INTEGER Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value @@ -2969,31 +3330,27 @@ pf_enable - INTEGER https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for details. - 1: Enable pf. + Possible values: - 0: Disable pf. + - 1: Enable pf. + - 0: Disable pf. Default: 1 pf_expose - INTEGER Unset or enable/disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state exposure. Applications can control the exposure of the PF path state - in the SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event and the SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO - sockopt. When it's unset, no SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event with - SCTP_ADDR_PF state will be sent and a SCTP_PF-state transport info - can be got via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt; When it's enabled, - a SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent for a transport becoming - SCTP_PF state and a SCTP_PF-state transport info can be got via - SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt; When it's disabled, no - SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent and it returns -EACCES when - trying to get a SCTP_PF-state transport info via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO - sockopt. - - 0: Unset pf state exposure, Compatible with old applications. + in the SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event and access of SCTP_PF-state + transport info via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt. - 1: Disable pf state exposure. + Possible values: - 2: Enable pf state exposure. + - 0: Unset pf state exposure (compatible with old applications). No + event will be sent but the transport info can be queried. + - 1: Disable pf state exposure. No event will be sent and trying to + obtain transport info will return -EACCESS. + - 2: Enable pf state exposure. The event will be sent for a transport + becoming SCTP_PF state and transport info can be obtained. Default: 0 @@ -3023,19 +3380,23 @@ auth_enable - BOOLEAN required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) extension. - - 1: Enable this extension. - - 0: Disable this extension. + Possible values: - Default: 0 + - 0 (disabled) - disable extension. + - 1 (enabled) - enable extension + + Default: 0 (disabled) prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected. - - 1: Enable extension - - 0: Disable + Possible values: - Default: 1 + - 0 (disabled) - disable extension. + - 1 (enabled) - enable extension + + Default: 1 (enabled) max_burst - INTEGER The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It @@ -3135,10 +3496,12 @@ cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association - - 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension. - - 0: Disable + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) - disable. + - 1 (enabled) - enable cookie lifetime extension. - Default: 1 + Default: 1 (enabled) cookie_hmac_alg - STRING Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by @@ -3183,13 +3546,11 @@ sndbuf_policy - INTEGER sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets. - min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its - memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds - this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage. - - pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem. - - max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets. + * min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its + memory usage. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds + this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage. + * pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem. + * max: Maximum number of allowed pages. Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory. @@ -3197,9 +3558,9 @@ sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are ignored. - min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket. - It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even - under moderate memory pressure. + * min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket. + It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even + under moderate memory pressure. Default: 4K @@ -3207,14 +3568,16 @@ sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are ignored. - min: Minimum size of send buffer that can be used by SCTP sockets. - It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even - under moderate memory pressure. + * min: Minimum size of send buffer that can be used by SCTP sockets. + It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even + under moderate memory pressure. Default: 4K addr_scope_policy - INTEGER - Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00 + Control IPv4 address scoping (see + https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4/00/ + for details). - 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping - 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping @@ -3272,10 +3635,12 @@ reconf_enable - BOOLEAN a stream, and it includes the Parameters of "Outgoing/Incoming SSN Reset", "SSN/TSN Reset" and "Add Outgoing/Incoming Streams". - - 1: Enable extension. - - 0: Disable extension. + Possible values: - Default: 0 + - 0 (disabled) - Disable extension. + - 1 (enabled) - Enable extension. + + Default: 0 (disabled) intl_enable - BOOLEAN Enable or disable extension of User Message Interleaving functionality @@ -3286,10 +3651,12 @@ intl_enable - BOOLEAN to 1 and also needs to set socket options SCTP_FRAGMENT_INTERLEAVE to 2 and SCTP_INTERLEAVING_SUPPORTED to 1. - - 1: Enable extension. - - 0: Disable extension. + Possible values: - Default: 0 + - 0 (disabled) - Disable extension. + - 1 (enabled) - Enable extension. + + Default: 0 (disabled) ecn_enable - BOOLEAN Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by SCTP. @@ -3298,10 +3665,12 @@ ecn_enable - BOOLEAN due to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal congestion before having to drop packets. - 1: Enable ecn. - 0: Disable ecn. + Possible values: - Default: 1 + - 0 (disabled) - Disable ecn. + - 1 (enabled) - Enable ecn. + + Default: 1 (enabled) l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work @@ -3310,6 +3679,11 @@ l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. + Possible values: + + - 0 (disabled) + - 1 (enabled) + Default: 1 (enabled) |