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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt | 8 |
3 files changed, 42 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt index 58e49042fc20..ff23b755f5e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt @@ -115,14 +115,17 @@ The "bat0" interface can be used like any other regular inter- face. It needs an IP address which can be either statically con- figured or dynamically (by using DHCP or similar services): -# NodeA: ifconfig bat0 192.168.0.1 -# NodeB: ifconfig bat0 192.168.0.2 +# NodeA: ip link set up dev bat0 +# NodeA: ip addr add 192.168.0.1/24 dev bat0 + +# NodeB: ip link set up dev bat0 +# NodeB: ip addr add 192.168.0.2/24 dev bat0 # NodeB: ping 192.168.0.1 Note: In order to avoid problems remove all IP addresses previ- ously assigned to interfaces now used by batman advanced, e.g. -# ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 +# ip addr flush dev eth0 LOGGING/DEBUGGING diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 2ea4c45cf1c8..ceb44a095a27 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -335,6 +335,14 @@ tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries. +tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN + Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index. + Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work + across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets + derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in + which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was + compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. + tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower latency as opposed to higher throughput. By default, this @@ -1723,6 +1731,25 @@ addip_enable - BOOLEAN Default: 0 +pf_enable - INTEGER + Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value + of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of + both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state. + Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace + application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of + pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans + or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is + enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable + and disable pf state. See: + https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for + details. + + 1: Enable pf. + + 0: Disable pf. + + Default: 1 + addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new @@ -1799,7 +1826,9 @@ pf_retrans - INTEGER having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See: http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans - disables this feature + disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can + be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to + disable pf state. Default: 0 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt index 91994134efca..fad63136ee3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt @@ -304,8 +304,12 @@ certain netdevs from flooding unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry. IGMP Snooping ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -XXX: complete this section - +In order to support IGMP snooping, the port netdevs should trap to the bridge +driver all IGMP join and leave messages. +The bridge multicast module will notify port netdevs on every multicast group +changed whether it is static configured or dynamically joined/leave. +The hardware implementation should be forwarding all registered multicast +traffic groups only to the configured ports. L3 Routing Offload ------------------ |