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| author | Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> | 2023-10-24 15:23:10 -0600 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-10-25 18:23:07 -0700 |
| commit | ec575f885e3eca6b003e007f4acfba9a0ec3c04a (patch) | |
| tree | ebc3efa8e94185cbba8e40956d9c4790692ea65e /Documentation | |
| parent | 433d6c8048cb297c3e25af237d6d006daa2195f9 (diff) | |
Documentation: networking: explain what happens if temp_prefered_lft is too small or too large
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024212312.299370-5-alexhenrie24@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index 6134ff4561e8..4dfe0d9a57bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -2509,7 +2509,11 @@ temp_valid_lft - INTEGER Default: 172800 (2 days) temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER - Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. + Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. If + temp_prefered_lft is less than the minimum required lifetime (typically + 5 seconds), the preferred lifetime is the minimum required. If + temp_prefered_lft is greater than temp_valid_lft, the preferred lifetime + is temp_valid_lft. Default: 86400 (1 day) |