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@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
Possible values:
0 - Layer 3
1 - Layer 4
+ 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
fib_sync_mem - UNSIGNED INTEGER
Amount of dirty memory from fib entries that can be backlogged before
@@ -255,6 +256,14 @@ tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled,
this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
+tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER
+ TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option,
+ as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691.
+ If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss,
+ it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss.
+
+ Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
+
tcp_congestion_control - STRING
Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
@@ -792,6 +801,14 @@ tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
Default: 100
+tcp_rx_skb_cache - BOOLEAN
+ Controls a per TCP socket cache of one skb, that might help
+ performance of some workloads. This might be dangerous
+ on systems with a lot of TCP sockets, since it increases
+ memory usage.
+
+ Default: 0 (disabled)
+
UDP variables:
udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
@@ -1429,14 +1446,24 @@ flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN
FALSE: disabled
Default: true
-flowlabel_reflect - BOOLEAN
- Automatically reflect the flow label. Needed for Path MTU
+flowlabel_reflect - INTEGER
+ Control flow label reflection. Needed for Path MTU
Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast
environments. See RFC 7690 and:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01
- TRUE: enabled
- FALSE: disabled
- Default: FALSE
+
+ This is a mask of two bits.
+ 1: enabled for established flows
+
+ Note that this prevents automatic flowlabel changes, as done
+ in "tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission"
+ and "tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit"
+
+ 2: enabled for TCP RESET packets (no active listener)
+ If set, a RST packet sent in response to a SYN packet on a closed
+ port will reflect the incoming flow label.
+
+ Default: 0
fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes.