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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001/proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables:
2
3ip_forward - BOOLEAN
4 0 - disabled (default)
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00005 not 0 - enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07006
7 Forward Packets between interfaces.
8
9 This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
10 parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
11 for routers)
12
13ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
Eric Dumazetcc6f02d2010-12-13 12:50:49 -080014 Default value of TTL field (Time To Live) for outgoing (but not
15 forwarded) IP packets. Should be between 1 and 255 inclusive.
16 Default: 64 (as recommended by RFC1700)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017
Hannes Frederic Sowacd174e62013-12-14 05:13:45 +010018ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER
19 Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled in mode 1 and a
Hannes Frederic Sowa188b04d2013-12-14 04:42:13 +010020 fragmentation-required ICMP is received, the PMTU to this
21 destination will be set to min_pmtu (see below). You will need
22 to raise min_pmtu to the smallest interface MTU on your system
23 manually if you want to avoid locally generated fragments.
Hannes Frederic Sowacd174e62013-12-14 05:13:45 +010024
25 In mode 2 incoming Path MTU Discovery messages will be
26 discarded. Outgoing frames are handled the same as in mode 1,
27 implicitly setting IP_PMTUDISC_DONT on every created socket.
28
Hannes Frederic Sowa8ed1dc42014-01-09 10:01:17 +010029 Mode 3 is a hardend pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only
30 accept fragmentation-needed errors if the underlying protocol
31 can verify them besides a plain socket lookup. Current
32 protocols for which pmtu events will be honored are TCP, SCTP
33 and DCCP as they verify e.g. the sequence number or the
34 association. This mode should not be enabled globally but is
35 only intended to secure e.g. name servers in namespaces where
36 TCP path mtu must still work but path MTU information of other
37 protocols should be discarded. If enabled globally this mode
38 could break other protocols.
39
40 Possible values: 0-3
Hannes Frederic Sowa188b04d2013-12-14 04:42:13 +010041 Default: FALSE
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070042
43min_pmtu - INTEGER
Eric Dumazet20db93c2011-11-08 14:21:44 -050044 default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070045
Hannes Frederic Sowaf87c10a2014-01-09 10:01:15 +010046ip_forward_use_pmtu - BOOLEAN
47 By default we don't trust protocol path MTUs while forwarding
48 because they could be easily forged and can lead to unwanted
49 fragmentation by the router.
50 You only need to enable this if you have user-space software
51 which tries to discover path mtus by itself and depends on the
52 kernel honoring this information. This is normally not the
53 case.
54 Default: 0 (disabled)
55 Possible values:
56 0 - disabled
57 1 - enabled
58
Loganaden Velvindron219b5f22014-11-04 03:02:49 -080059fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
60 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv4 reply packets that are not
61 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMP echo replies).
62 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
63 fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
64 Default: 0
65
David Aherna6db4492016-04-07 07:21:00 -070066fib_multipath_use_neigh - BOOLEAN
67 Use status of existing neighbor entry when determining nexthop for
68 multipath routes. If disabled, neighbor information is not used and
69 packets could be directed to a failed nexthop. Only valid for kernels
70 built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled.
71 Default: 0 (disabled)
72 Possible values:
73 0 - disabled
74 1 - enabled
75
Nikolay Aleksandrovbf4e0a32017-03-16 15:28:00 +020076fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
77 Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes. Only valid
78 for kernels built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled.
79 Default: 0 (Layer 3)
80 Possible values:
81 0 - Layer 3
82 1 - Layer 4
83
Ben Greearcbaf0872010-11-08 09:13:48 +000084route/max_size - INTEGER
85 Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase
86 this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
Ani Sinha25050c62015-01-07 15:45:56 -080087 From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
88 as route cache is no longer used.
Ben Greearcbaf0872010-11-08 09:13:48 +000089
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明27246802013-01-22 05:20:05 +000090neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
91 Minimum number of entries to keep. Garbage collector will not
92 purge entries if there are fewer than this number.
Li RongQingb66c66d2013-03-14 22:49:47 +000093 Default: 128
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明27246802013-01-22 05:20:05 +000094
stephen hemmingera3d12142014-08-25 15:05:30 -070095neigh/default/gc_thresh2 - INTEGER
96 Threshold when garbage collector becomes more aggressive about
97 purging entries. Entries older than 5 seconds will be cleared
98 when over this number.
99 Default: 512
100
Ben Greearcbaf0872010-11-08 09:13:48 +0000101neigh/default/gc_thresh3 - INTEGER
102 Maximum number of neighbor entries allowed. Increase this
103 when using large numbers of interfaces and when communicating
104 with large numbers of directly-connected peers.
Shan Weicc868022012-12-04 18:50:35 +0000105 Default: 1024
Ben Greearcbaf0872010-11-08 09:13:48 +0000106
Eric Dumazet8b5c1712011-11-09 12:07:14 +0000107neigh/default/unres_qlen_bytes - INTEGER
108 The maximum number of bytes which may be used by packets
109 queued for each unresolved address by other network layers.
110 (added in linux 3.3)
stephen hemminger3b09adc2013-01-03 07:50:29 +0000111 Setting negative value is meaningless and will return error.
Eric Dumazeteaa72dc2017-08-29 15:16:01 -0700112 Default: SK_WMEM_MAX, (same as net.core.wmem_default).
113 Exact value depends on architecture and kernel options,
114 but should be enough to allow queuing 256 packets
115 of medium size.
Eric Dumazet8b5c1712011-11-09 12:07:14 +0000116
117neigh/default/unres_qlen - INTEGER
118 The maximum number of packets which may be queued for each
119 unresolved address by other network layers.
120 (deprecated in linux 3.3) : use unres_qlen_bytes instead.
Shan Weicc868022012-12-04 18:50:35 +0000121 Prior to linux 3.3, the default value is 3 which may cause
Shan Wei5d248c42012-12-06 16:27:51 +0000122 unexpected packet loss. The current default value is calculated
Shan Weicc868022012-12-04 18:50:35 +0000123 according to default value of unres_qlen_bytes and true size of
124 packet.
Eric Dumazeteaa72dc2017-08-29 15:16:01 -0700125 Default: 101
Eric Dumazet8b5c1712011-11-09 12:07:14 +0000126
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700127mtu_expires - INTEGER
128 Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
129
130min_adv_mss - INTEGER
131 The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
132 never be lower than this setting.
133
134IP Fragmentation:
135
136ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000137 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700138 ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
139 the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh
Nikolay Aleksandrov1bab4c72014-07-24 16:50:37 +0200140 is reached. This also serves as a maximum limit to namespaces
141 different from the initial one.
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000142
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700143ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER
Florian Westphalb13d3cb2014-07-24 16:50:32 +0200144 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments before the kernel
145 begins to remove incomplete fragment queues to free up resources.
146 The kernel still accepts new fragments for defragmentation.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700147
148ipfrag_time - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000149 Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700150
Herbert Xu89cee8b2005-12-13 23:14:27 -0800151ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000152 ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
153 maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
154 common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
155 not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
156 IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
157 probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
158 have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
159 is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
160 ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
161 address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
162 address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
163 lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
Herbert Xu89cee8b2005-12-13 23:14:27 -0800164 started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
165
166 Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
167 result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000168 reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
169 performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
170 likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
Herbert Xu89cee8b2005-12-13 23:14:27 -0800171 from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
172 Default: 64
173
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700174INET peer storage:
175
176inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000177 The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700178 entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines
179 entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
180 passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
181
182inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
183 Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
184 time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
185 guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
Stephen Hemminger77a538d2008-07-01 17:22:48 -0700186 Measured in seconds.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700187
188inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
189 Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
190 this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
191 when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
Stephen Hemminger77a538d2008-07-01 17:22:48 -0700192 Measured in seconds.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700193
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000194TCP variables:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700195
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800196somaxconn - INTEGER
197 Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
198 Defaults to 128. See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
199 for TCP sockets.
200
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800201tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
202 If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
203 reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
204 occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
205 option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
206 cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
207 option can harm clients of your server.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700208
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800209tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
210 Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
211 (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
212 if it is <= 0.
Alexey Dobriyan0147fc02010-11-22 12:54:21 +0000213 Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
Eric Dumazetb49960a2012-05-02 02:28:41 +0000214 Default: 1
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800215
216tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
217 Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
218 processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
219 tcp_available_congestion_control.
220 Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
221
222tcp_app_win - INTEGER
223 Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
224 buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
225 Default: 31
226
Eric Dumazetf54b3112013-12-05 22:36:05 -0800227tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN
228 Enable TCP auto corking :
229 When applications do consecutive small write()/sendmsg() system calls,
230 we try to coalesce these small writes as much as possible, to lower
231 total amount of sent packets. This is done if at least one prior
232 packet for the flow is waiting in Qdisc queues or device transmit
233 queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior
234 when they know how/when to uncork their sockets.
235 Default : 1
236
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800237tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
238 Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
239 More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
240 but not loaded.
241
John Heffner71599cd2007-02-27 10:03:56 -0800242tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700243 The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
244 Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled,
245 this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
John Heffner71599cd2007-02-27 10:03:56 -0800246
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800247tcp_congestion_control - STRING
248 Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
249 connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
250 additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
251 Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
Eric Dumazetd8a6e652011-11-30 01:02:41 +0000252 For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice
253 is inherited.
254 [see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800255
256tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
257 Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
258
Yuchung Chengeed530b2012-05-02 13:30:03 +0000259tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER
Yuchung Chengbec41a12017-01-12 22:11:39 -0800260 Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail
261 losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that
262 TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below)
Yuchung Chengeed530b2012-05-02 13:30:03 +0000263 Possible values:
Yuchung Chengbec41a12017-01-12 22:11:39 -0800264 0 disables TLP
265 3 or 4 enables TLP
Nandita Dukkipati6ba8a3b2013-03-11 10:00:43 +0000266 Default: 3
Yuchung Chengeed530b2012-05-02 13:30:03 +0000267
Peter Chubb34a6ef32011-02-02 15:39:58 -0800268tcp_ecn - INTEGER
Rick Jones7e3a2dc2012-11-28 09:53:10 +0000269 Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by TCP.
270 ECN is used only when both ends of the TCP connection indicate
271 support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses due
272 to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal
273 congestion before having to drop packets.
Ilpo Järvinen255cac92009-05-04 11:07:36 -0700274 Possible values are:
Rick Jones7e3a2dc2012-11-28 09:53:10 +0000275 0 Disable ECN. Neither initiate nor accept ECN.
Vijay Subramanian3d55b322013-01-09 12:21:30 +0000276 1 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections and
277 also request ECN on outgoing connection attempts.
278 2 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections
Rick Jones7e3a2dc2012-11-28 09:53:10 +0000279 but do not request ECN on outgoing connections.
Ilpo Järvinen255cac92009-05-04 11:07:36 -0700280 Default: 2
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800281
Daniel Borkmann49213552015-05-19 21:04:22 +0200282tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN
283 If the kernel detects that ECN connection misbehaves, enable fall
284 back to non-ECN. Currently, this knob implements the fallback
285 from RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1., but we reserve that in future,
286 additional detection mechanisms could be implemented under this
287 knob. The value is not used, if tcp_ecn or per route (or congestion
288 control) ECN settings are disabled.
289 Default: 1 (fallback enabled)
290
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800291tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
292 Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
293 The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
294
295tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
Rick Jonesd825da22012-12-10 11:33:00 +0000296 The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any
297 application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state
298 before it is aborted at the local end. While a perfectly
299 valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an
300 orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait
301 forever for the remote to close its end of the connection.
302 Cf. tcp_max_orphans
303 Default: 60 seconds
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800304
Ilpo Järvinen89808062007-02-27 10:10:55 -0800305tcp_frto - INTEGER
Yuchung Chenge33099f2013-03-20 13:33:00 +0000306 Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682.
Ilpo Järvinencd998892007-09-20 11:35:26 -0700307 F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
Yuchung Chenge33099f2013-03-20 13:33:00 +0000308 timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in networks where the
309 RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only
310 modification. It does not require any support from the peer.
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700311
Yuchung Chenge33099f2013-03-20 13:33:00 +0000312 By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700313
Neal Cardwell032ee422015-02-06 16:04:38 -0500314tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER
315 Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments
316 in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing
317 connection but that are invalid due to any of these reasons:
318
319 (a) out-of-window sequence number,
320 (b) out-of-window acknowledgment number, or
321 (c) PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) check failure
322
323 This can help mitigate simple "ack loop" DoS attacks, wherein
324 a buggy or malicious middlebox or man-in-the-middle can
325 rewrite TCP header fields in manner that causes each endpoint
326 to think that the other is sending invalid TCP segments, thus
327 causing each side to send an unterminating stream of duplicate
328 acknowledgments for invalid segments.
329
330 Using 0 disables rate-limiting of dupacks in response to
331 invalid segments; otherwise this value specifies the minimal
332 space between sending such dupacks, in milliseconds.
333
334 Default: 500 (milliseconds).
335
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700336tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
337 How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
338 Default: 2hours.
339
340tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
341 How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
342 connection is broken. Default value: 9.
343
344tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
345 How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
346 tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
347 after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
348 will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
349
David Ahern6dd9a142015-12-16 13:20:44 -0800350tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
351 Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index.
352 Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work
353 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets
354 derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in
355 which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was
356 compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
357
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800358tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
Florian Westphalb6690b12017-07-30 03:57:20 +0200359 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700360
361tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
362 Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
363 held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
364 reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
365 only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
366 or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
367 (probably, after increasing installed memory),
368 if network conditions require more than default value,
369 and tune network services to linger and kill such states
370 more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
371 up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
372
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700373tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
Peter Pan(潘卫平)99b53bd2011-12-05 21:39:41 +0000374 Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which have not
375 received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
376 The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
377 increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
378 If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700379
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800380tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
381 Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
382 If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
383 and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
384 simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
385 but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
386 if network conditions require more than default value.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700387
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800388tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
389 min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
390 memory appetite.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700391
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800392 pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
393 of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
394 pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
395 under "min".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700396
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800397 max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700398
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800399 Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
400 memory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700401
Yuchung Chengf6722582015-10-16 21:57:42 -0700402tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER
403 The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT.
404 A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher)
405 minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic
406 engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT
407 inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds.
408 Default: 300
409
John Heffner71599cd2007-02-27 10:03:56 -0800410tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700411 If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
John Heffner71599cd2007-02-27 10:03:56 -0800412 automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
413 match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by
414 default.
415
416tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
417 Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three
418 values:
419 0 - Disabled
420 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
421 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
422
Fan Dufab42762015-03-06 11:18:25 +0800423tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER
424 Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
425 Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
426 per RFC4821.
427
428tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
429 Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
430 will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
431 is 8 bytes.
432
John Heffner71599cd2007-02-27 10:03:56 -0800433tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
434 By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
435 when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
436 near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this
437 increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
Simon Arlott0f035b82007-10-20 01:30:25 +0200438 degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
John Heffner71599cd2007-02-27 10:03:56 -0800439 connections.
440
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800441tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
Damian Lukowski5d789222009-09-01 10:24:04 +0000442 This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
443 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
444 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
445
David S. Miller06b8fc52011-07-08 09:31:31 -0700446 The default value is 8.
Damian Lukowski5d789222009-09-01 10:24:04 +0000447 If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800448 you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
449 may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700450
Yuchung Cheng4f41b1c2015-10-16 21:57:47 -0700451tcp_recovery - INTEGER
452 This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery
453 features.
454
455 RACK: 0x1 enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost
456 retransmissions and tail drops.
Priyaranjan Jha1f255692017-11-03 16:38:48 -0700457 RACK: 0x2 makes RACK's reordering window static (min_rtt/4).
Yuchung Cheng4f41b1c2015-10-16 21:57:47 -0700458
459 Default: 0x1
460
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700461tcp_reordering - INTEGER
Eric Dumazetdca145f2014-10-27 21:45:24 -0700462 Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
463 TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level
464 between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000465 Default: 3
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700466
Eric Dumazetdca145f2014-10-27 21:45:24 -0700467tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER
468 Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
469 300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it
470 if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode)
471 Default: 300
472
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700473tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
474 Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
475 On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
476 certain TCP stacks.
477
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800478tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
Damian Lukowski5d789222009-09-01 10:24:04 +0000479 This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
480 something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
481 and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
482 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
483
484 RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
485 default.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700486
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800487tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
Damian Lukowski5d789222009-09-01 10:24:04 +0000488 This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
489 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
490 Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
491 exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
492 retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
493
494 The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
495 seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
496 TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
497 hypothetical timeout.
498
499 RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
500 which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700501
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800502tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
503 If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
504 we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
505 assassination.
506 Default: 0
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700507
508tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
509 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
510 It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
511 pressure.
Max Matveev6539fef2011-06-21 21:18:13 +0000512 Default: 1 page
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700513
J. Bruce Fields53025f52008-07-10 16:47:41 -0700514 default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700515 This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
516 Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
517 default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
518 less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
519
520 max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
521 selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
J. Bruce Fields53025f52008-07-10 16:47:41 -0700522 net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
523 automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
524 case this value is ignored.
Eric Dumazetb49960a2012-05-02 02:28:41 +0000525 Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700526
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800527tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
528 Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
Rick Jones15d99e02006-03-20 22:40:29 -0800529
David S. Miller35089bb2006-06-13 22:33:04 -0700530tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
531 If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
532 window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
533 the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
534 be timed out after an idle period.
535 Default: 1
536
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800537tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700538 Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800539 Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
540 Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
541 Default: FALSE
542
543tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
544 Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
545 be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
Alex Bergmann6c9ff972012-08-31 02:48:31 +0000546 is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission
547 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
548 for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800549
550tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
Shan Weia3c910d2013-06-21 15:18:32 +0800551 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800552 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700553 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
Shan Weia3c910d2013-06-21 15:18:32 +0800554 Default: 1
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800555
556 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
557 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700558 against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800559 in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
560 because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
561 another parameters until this warning disappear.
562 See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
563
564 syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
565 to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
566 of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
567 but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700568 SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800569 is seriously misconfigured.
570
Hannes Frederic Sowa5ad37d52013-07-26 17:43:23 +0200571 If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
572 network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
573 unconditionally generation of syncookies.
574
Yuchung Chengcf60af02012-07-19 06:43:09 +0000575tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
Yuchung Chengcebc5cb2016-08-22 17:17:54 -0700576 Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening
577 SYN packet.
578
579 The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client
580 then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag,
581 rather than connect() to send data in SYN.
582
583 The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then
584 either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or
585 enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with
586 the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog.
Yuchung Chengcf60af02012-07-19 06:43:09 +0000587
Jerry Chu10467162012-08-31 12:29:11 +0000588 The values (bitmap) are
Yuchung Chengcebc5cb2016-08-22 17:17:54 -0700589 0x1: (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
590 0x2: (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in
591 a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the
592 application before 3-way handshake finishes.
593 0x4: (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie
594 availability and without a cookie option.
595 0x200: (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
596 0x400: (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by
597 default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option.
Yuchung Chengcf60af02012-07-19 06:43:09 +0000598
Yuchung Chengcebc5cb2016-08-22 17:17:54 -0700599 Default: 0x1
Yuchung Chengcf60af02012-07-19 06:43:09 +0000600
Yuchung Chengcebc5cb2016-08-22 17:17:54 -0700601 Note that that additional client or server features are only
602 effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively.
Jerry Chu10467162012-08-31 12:29:11 +0000603
Wei Wangcf1ef3f2017-04-20 14:45:46 -0700604tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER
605 Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets
606 when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens.
607 This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues
608 get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to
609 initial value when the blackhole issue goes away.
610 By default, it is set to 1hr.
611
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800612tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
613 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
Xin Longbffae692016-01-20 16:12:33 +0800614 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value
stephen hemminger3b09adc2013-01-03 07:50:29 +0000615 is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission
Alex Bergmann6c9ff972012-08-31 02:48:31 +0000616 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
617 for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800618
Florian Westphal25429d72016-12-01 11:32:07 +0100619tcp_timestamps - INTEGER
620Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
621 0: Disabled.
622 1: Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323 and use random offset for
623 each connection rather than only using the current time.
624 2: Like 1, but without random offsets.
625 Default: 1
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800626
Eric Dumazet95bd09e2013-08-27 05:46:32 -0700627tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER
628 Minimal number of segments per TSO frame.
629 Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames,
630 depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets.
631 For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big
632 TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets
633 if available window is too small.
634 Default: 2
635
Eric Dumazet43e122b2015-08-21 17:38:02 -0700636tcp_pacing_ss_ratio - INTEGER
637 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
638 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
639 If TCP is in slow start, tcp_pacing_ss_ratio is applied
640 to let TCP probe for bigger speeds, assuming cwnd can be
641 doubled every other RTT.
642 Default: 200
643
644tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER
645 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
646 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
647 If TCP is in congestion avoidance phase, tcp_pacing_ca_ratio
648 is applied to conservatively probe for bigger throughput.
649 Default: 120
650
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800651tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
652 This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
653 can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
654 The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
655 building larger TSO frames.
656 Default: 3
657
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800658tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
659 Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
660 safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
661 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
662 experts.
663
664tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
665 Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
666
667tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
J. Bruce Fields53025f52008-07-10 16:47:41 -0700668 min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800669 Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
Max Matveev6539fef2011-06-21 21:18:13 +0000670 Default: 1 page
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800671
J. Bruce Fields53025f52008-07-10 16:47:41 -0700672 default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets. This
673 value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
674 It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800675 Default: 16K
676
J. Bruce Fields53025f52008-07-10 16:47:41 -0700677 max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
678 send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
679 net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
680 automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
681 this value is ignored.
682 Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800683
Eric Dumazetc9bee3b72013-07-22 20:27:07 -0700684tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER
685 A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue,
686 thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll()
687 reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per
688 socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will
689 also not add new buffers if the limit is hit.
690
691 This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for
692 sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change
693 to the global variable has immediate effect.
694
695 Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF)
696
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800697tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
698 If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
699 remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
700 If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
701 not receive a window scaling option from them.
702 Default: 0
703
Andreas Petlund36e31b0a2010-02-18 02:47:01 +0000704tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
705 Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
706 If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
707 determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
708 As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
709 timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
710 initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
711 non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
712 For more information on thin streams, see
713 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
714 Default: 0
715
Eric Dumazet46d3cea2012-07-11 05:50:31 +0000716tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER
717 Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket.
718 TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it
719 gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can
720 result in a large amount of packets queued in qdisc/device
721 on the local machine, hurting latency of other flows, for
722 typical pfifo_fast qdiscs.
723 tcp_limit_output_bytes limits the number of bytes on qdisc
724 or device to reduce artificial RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat.
Niklas Cassel821b41442015-11-09 15:59:00 +0100725 Default: 262144
Eric Dumazet46d3cea2012-07-11 05:50:31 +0000726
Eric Dumazet282f23c2012-07-17 10:13:05 +0200727tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
728 Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
729 in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
730 Default: 100
731
Hideo Aoki95766ff2007-12-31 00:29:24 -0800732UDP variables:
733
Robert Shearman63a6fff2017-01-26 18:02:24 +0000734udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
735 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
736 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
737 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
738 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
739 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
740
Hideo Aoki95766ff2007-12-31 00:29:24 -0800741udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
742 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
743
744 min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its
745 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds
746 this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage.
747
748 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
749
750 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
751
752 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
753
754udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
755 Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
756 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
757 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
Max Matveev6539fef2011-06-21 21:18:13 +0000758 Default: 1 page
Hideo Aoki95766ff2007-12-31 00:29:24 -0800759
760udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
761 Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
762 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if
763 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
Max Matveev6539fef2011-06-21 21:18:13 +0000764 Default: 1 page
Hideo Aoki95766ff2007-12-31 00:29:24 -0800765
Paul Moore8802f612006-08-03 16:45:49 -0700766CIPSOv4 Variables:
767
768cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
769 If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
770 cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
771 miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
772 invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
773 off and the cache will always be "safe".
774 Default: 1
775
776cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
777 The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
778 hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits
779 the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
780 more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of
781 entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
782 causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
783 Default: 10
784
785cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
786 Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
787 the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
788 This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
789 categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
790 Default: 0
791
792cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
793 If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
794 ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during
795 ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
796 where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
797 result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
798 with other implementations that require strict checking.
799 Default: 0
800
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700801IP Variables:
802
803ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
804 Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000805 choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
Eric Dumazet07f4c902015-05-24 14:49:35 -0700806 second the last local port number.
807 If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity.
808 (one even and one odd values)
809 The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700810
Amerigo Wange3826f12010-05-05 00:27:06 +0000811ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
812 Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
813 applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
814 assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
815 number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
816
817 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
818 list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
819 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
820 ports and update the current list with the one given in the
821 input.
822
823 Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
824 settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
825 when determining which ports are available for automatic port
826 assignments.
827
828 You can reserve ports which are not in the current
829 ip_local_port_range, e.g.:
830
831 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
Eric Dumazet07f4c902015-05-24 14:49:35 -0700832 32000 60999
Amerigo Wange3826f12010-05-05 00:27:06 +0000833 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
834 8080,9148
835
836 although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
837 if later the port range is changed to a value that will
838 include the reserved ports.
839
840 Default: Empty
841
Krister Johansen4548b682017-01-20 17:49:11 -0800842ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER
843 This is a per-namespace sysctl. It defines the first
844 unprivileged port in the network namespace. Privileged ports
845 require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them.
846 To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0. It may not
847 overlap with the ip_local_reserved_ports range.
848
849 Default: 1024
850
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700851ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
852 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
853 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
854 Default: 0
855
856ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
857 If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
858 If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
859 message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
860 occurs.
861 Default: 0
862
Cong Wange3d73bc2013-06-11 18:54:39 +0800863ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN
864 Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for
865 certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this
subashab@codeaurora.orgdddb64b2017-03-23 13:34:16 -0600866 for established TCP and connected UDP sockets.
Cong Wange3d73bc2013-06-11 18:54:39 +0800867
868 It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that
869 reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it.
870 Default: 1
871
subashab@codeaurora.orgdddb64b2017-03-23 13:34:16 -0600872tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
873 Enable early demux for established TCP sockets.
874 Default: 1
875
876udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
877 Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if
878 your system could experience more unconnected load.
879 Default: 1
880
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700881icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
David S. Miller7ce312462005-10-03 16:07:30 -0700882 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
883 requests sent to it.
884 Default: 0
885
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700886icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
David S. Miller7ce312462005-10-03 16:07:30 -0700887 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
888 TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
889 Default: 1
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700890
891icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
892 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
893 icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
Stephen Hemminger6dbf4bc2008-07-01 19:29:07 -0700894 0 to disable any limiting,
895 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
Eric Dumazet4cdf5072014-09-19 07:38:40 -0700896 Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number
897 of ICMP packets sent on all targets.
Stephen Hemminger6dbf4bc2008-07-01 19:29:07 -0700898 Default: 1000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700899
Eric Dumazet4cdf5072014-09-19 07:38:40 -0700900icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER
901 Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host.
902 Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are
903 controlled by this limit.
904 Default: 1000
905
906icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER
907 icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second,
908 while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets.
909 Default: 50
910
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700911icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
912 Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
913 Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
914 Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168)
915
916 Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
917 0 Echo Reply
918 3 Destination Unreachable *
919 4 Source Quench *
920 5 Redirect
921 8 Echo Request
922 B Time Exceeded *
923 C Parameter Problem *
924 D Timestamp Request
925 E Timestamp Reply
926 F Info Request
927 G Info Reply
928 H Address Mask Request
929 I Address Mask Reply
930
931 * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
932
933icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
934 Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
935 frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
936 If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
937 will avoid log file clutter.
Rami Rosene8b265e2013-06-07 20:16:19 +0000938 Default: 1
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700939
Horms95f7daf2006-02-02 17:02:25 -0800940icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
941
Paolo Abeni02a6d612015-10-14 14:25:53 +0200942 If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
943 the exiting interface.
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000944
Horms95f7daf2006-02-02 17:02:25 -0800945 If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
946 the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
947 This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
948 a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000949 much easier.
Horms95f7daf2006-02-02 17:02:25 -0800950
951 Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
952 then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
Matt LaPlanted6bc8ac2006-10-03 22:54:15 +0200953 has one will be used regardless of this setting.
Horms95f7daf2006-02-02 17:02:25 -0800954
955 Default: 0
956
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700957igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
958 Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
959 Default: 20
960
Jeremy Ederd67ef352010-11-15 05:41:31 +0000961 Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
962 report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
963 datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
964 intend to).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700965
Jeremy Ederd67ef352010-11-15 05:41:31 +0000966 The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group
967 report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
968
969 M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
970
971 Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
972 So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
973
974 (65536-24) / 12 = 5459
975
976 The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
977 this number may be lower.
978
Benjamin Poirier537377d2016-03-21 13:21:40 -0700979igmp_max_msf - INTEGER
980 Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a
981 multicast group.
982 Default: 10
983
Hannes Frederic Sowaa9fe8e22014-09-02 15:49:26 +0200984igmp_qrv - INTEGER
Benjamin Poirier537377d2016-03-21 13:21:40 -0700985 Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1).
986 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1)
987 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
Hannes Frederic Sowaa9fe8e22014-09-02 15:49:26 +0200988
Hangbin Liu1af92832016-11-07 14:51:23 +0800989force_igmp_version - INTEGER
990 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback
991 allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier
992 Present timer expires.
993 1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if
994 receive IGMPv2/v3 query.
995 2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive
996 IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query.
997 3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0.
998
999 Note: this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376
1000 Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could
1001 ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make
1002 this value as default 0 is recommended.
1003
Benjamin Poirier6b226e22016-03-21 13:21:39 -07001004conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where
1005"interface" is the name of your network interface)
1006
1007conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
1008
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001009log_martians - BOOLEAN
1010 Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
1011 log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1012 conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
1013 it will be disabled otherwise
1014
1015accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1016 Accept ICMP redirect messages.
1017 accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001018 - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
1019 forwarding for the interface is enabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001020 or
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001021 - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
1022 case forwarding for the interface is disabled
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001023 accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
1024 default TRUE (host)
1025 FALSE (router)
1026
1027forwarding - BOOLEAN
Neil Jerram88a7cdd2017-03-10 12:24:57 +00001028 Enable IP forwarding on this interface. This controls whether packets
1029 received _on_ this interface can be forwarded.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001030
1031mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
1032 Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
1033 and a multicast routing daemon is required.
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001034 conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
1035 routing for the interface
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001036
1037medium_id - INTEGER
1038 Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
1039 are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
1040 the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
1041 The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
1042 to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001043
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001044 Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
1045 the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
1046 two devices attached to different media.
1047
1048proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
1049 Do proxy arp.
1050 proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1051 conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
1052 it will be disabled otherwise
1053
Jesper Dangaard Brouer65324142010-01-05 05:50:47 +00001054proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
1055 Private VLAN proxy arp.
1056 Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
1057 (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
1058
1059 This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
1060 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
1061 communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
1062 the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
1063 to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
1064 router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
1065 proxy_arp.
1066
1067 This technology is known by different names:
1068 In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
1069 Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
1070 Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
1071 Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
1072
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001073shared_media - BOOLEAN
1074 Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
Eric Garver176b3462016-05-26 12:28:05 -04001075 Overrides secure_redirects.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001076 shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1077 conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
1078 it will be disabled otherwise
1079 default TRUE
1080
1081secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
Eric Garver176b3462016-05-26 12:28:05 -04001082 Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the
1083 interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect
1084 rules still apply.
1085 Overridden by shared_media.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001086 secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1087 conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
1088 it will be disabled otherwise
1089 default TRUE
1090
1091send_redirects - BOOLEAN
1092 Send redirects, if router.
1093 send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1094 conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
1095 it will be disabled otherwise
1096 Default: TRUE
1097
1098bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
1099 Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
1100 not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
1101 BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
1102 conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
1103 for the interface
1104 default FALSE
1105 Not Implemented Yet.
1106
1107accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
1108 Accept packets with SRR option.
1109 conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
1110 with SRR option on the interface
1111 default TRUE (router)
1112 FALSE (host)
1113
Patrick McHardy8153a102009-12-03 01:25:58 +00001114accept_local - BOOLEAN
Sébastien Barré72b126a2014-09-10 18:20:23 +02001115 Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
1116 suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
1117 local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
Patrick McHardy8153a102009-12-03 01:25:58 +00001118 default FALSE
1119
Thomas Grafd0daebc32012-06-12 00:44:01 +00001120route_localnet - BOOLEAN
1121 Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination
1122 while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes.
1123 default FALSE
1124
Stephen Hemmingerc1cf8422009-02-20 08:25:36 +00001125rp_filter - INTEGER
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001126 0 - No source validation.
Stephen Hemmingerc1cf8422009-02-20 08:25:36 +00001127 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
1128 Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
1129 is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
1130 By default failed packets are discarded.
1131 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
1132 Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
1133 and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
1134 the packet check will fail.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001135
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001136 Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
Jesper Dangaard Brouerbf869c32009-02-23 04:37:55 +00001137 to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001138 or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
Stephen Hemmingerc1cf8422009-02-20 08:25:36 +00001139
Shan Wei1f5865e2009-12-02 15:39:04 -08001140 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
1141 when doing source validation on the {interface}.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001142
1143 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
1144 in startup scripts.
1145
1146arp_filter - BOOLEAN
1147 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
1148 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
1149 based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
1150 the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
1151 based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
1152 of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
1153
1154 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
1155 from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
1156 sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
1157 IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
1158 particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
1159 balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
1160
1161 arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1162 conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
1163 it will be disabled otherwise
1164
1165arp_announce - INTEGER
1166 Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
1167 source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
1168 interface:
1169 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
1170 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
1171 subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
1172 hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
1173 address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
1174 configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
1175 request we will check all our subnets that include the
1176 target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
1177 such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
1178 address according to the rules for level 2.
1179 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
1180 In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
1181 and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
1182 the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
1183 for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
1184 interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
1185 local address is found we select the first local address
1186 we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
1187 with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
1188 even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
1189
1190 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
1191
1192 Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
1193 receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
1194 the level announces more valid sender's information.
1195
1196arp_ignore - INTEGER
1197 Define different modes for sending replies in response to
1198 received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
1199 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
1200 on any interface
1201 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1202 configured on the incoming interface
1203 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1204 configured on the incoming interface and both with the
1205 sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
1206 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
1207 only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
1208 4-7 - reserved
1209 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
1210
1211 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
1212 when ARP request is received on the {interface}
1213
Stephen Hemmingereefef1c2009-02-01 01:04:33 -08001214arp_notify - BOOLEAN
1215 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1216 0 - (default): do nothing
Ian Campbell3f8dc232010-05-26 00:09:41 +00001217 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
Stephen Hemmingereefef1c2009-02-01 01:04:33 -08001218 or hardware address changes.
1219
Neil Hormanc1b1bce2006-03-20 22:40:03 -08001220arp_accept - BOOLEAN
Octavian Purdila6d955182010-01-18 12:58:44 +00001221 Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not
1222 already present in the ARP table:
1223 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
1224 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
1225
1226 Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
1227 ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
1228
1229 If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
1230 gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
1231 if this setting is on or off.
1232
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明89c69d32015-03-19 22:42:04 +09001233mcast_solicit - INTEGER
1234 The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state,
1235 when the associated hardware address is unknown. Defaults
1236 to 3.
1237
1238ucast_solicit - INTEGER
1239 The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when
1240 the hardware address is being reconfirmed. Defaults to 3.
Neil Hormanc1b1bce2006-03-20 22:40:03 -08001241
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001242app_solicit - INTEGER
1243 The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
1244 via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明89c69d32015-03-19 22:42:04 +09001245 mcast_resolicit). Defaults to 0.
1246
1247mcast_resolicit - INTEGER
1248 The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and
1249 app probes in PROBE state. Defaults to 0.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001250
1251disable_policy - BOOLEAN
1252 Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
1253
1254disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
1255 Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
1256
Hannes Frederic Sowafc4eba52013-08-14 01:03:46 +02001257igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1258 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1259 IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place.
1260 Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001261
Hannes Frederic Sowafc4eba52013-08-14 01:03:46 +02001262igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1263 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1264 IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place.
1265 Default: 1000 (1 seconds)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001266
Martin Schwenked922e1c2014-01-28 15:26:42 +11001267promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN
1268 When a primary IP address is removed from this interface
1269 promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of
1270 removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses.
1271
Johannes Berg12b74df2016-02-04 13:31:17 +01001272drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1273 Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer
1274 multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1275 This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC
1276 1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons.
1277 Default: off (0)
1278
Johannes Berg97daf332016-02-04 13:31:18 +01001279drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN
1280 Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known
1281 good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1282 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1283 Default: off (0)
1284
Martin Schwenked922e1c2014-01-28 15:26:42 +11001285
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001286tag - INTEGER
1287 Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
1288 Default value is 0.
1289
Alexander Duycke69948a2015-08-11 13:35:01 -07001290xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1291 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4
1292 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will
Florian Westphal3c2a89d2017-07-17 13:57:20 +02001293 refuse new allocations.
Alexander Duycke69948a2015-08-11 13:35:01 -07001294
Philip Downey87583eb2015-08-31 11:30:38 +01001295igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN
1296 Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the
1297 224.0.0.X range.
1298 Default TRUE
1299
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001300Alexey Kuznetsov.
1301kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
1302
1303Updated by:
1304Andi Kleen
1305ak@muc.de
1306Nicolas Delon
1307delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
1308
1309
1310
1311
1312/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
1313
1314IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
1315apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
1316
1317bindv6only - BOOLEAN
1318 Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001319 which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001320 only.
1321 TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
1322 FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
1323
Geoffrey Thomasd5c073ca2011-08-22 11:28:57 -07001324 Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001325
Florent Fourcot6444f722014-01-17 17:15:05 +01001326flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN
1327 Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label.
1328 You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the
1329 flow label manager.
1330 TRUE: enabled
1331 FALSE: disabled
1332 Default: TRUE
1333
Tom Herbert42240902015-07-31 16:52:12 -07001334auto_flowlabels - INTEGER
1335 Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the
1336 packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to
1337 identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath
Tom Herbertcb1ce2e2014-07-01 21:33:10 -07001338 Routing (see RFC 6438).
Tom Herbert42240902015-07-31 16:52:12 -07001339 0: automatic flow labels are completely disabled
1340 1: automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be
1341 disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL
1342 socket option
1343 2: automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a
1344 per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option
1345 3: automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot
1346 be disabled by the socket option
Tom Herbertb5677412015-07-31 16:52:14 -07001347 Default: 1
Tom Herbertcb1ce2e2014-07-01 21:33:10 -07001348
Tom Herbert82a584b2015-04-29 15:33:21 -07001349flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN
1350 Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is
1351 reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF
1352 is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437.
1353 TRUE: enabled
1354 FALSE: disabled
1355 Default: true
1356
Jakub Sitnicki22b67222017-08-23 09:55:41 +02001357flowlabel_reflect - BOOLEAN
1358 Automatically reflect the flow label. Needed for Path MTU
1359 Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast
1360 environments. See RFC 7690 and:
1361 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01
1362 TRUE: enabled
1363 FALSE: disabled
1364 Default: FALSE
1365
FX Le Bail509aba32014-01-07 14:57:27 +01001366anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN
1367 Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6
1368 echo reply
1369 TRUE: enabled
1370 FALSE: disabled
1371 Default: FALSE
1372
Hannes Frederic Sowa9f0761c2015-03-23 23:36:06 +01001373idgen_delay - INTEGER
1374 Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry
1375 privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is
1376 detected.
1377 Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217)
1378
1379idgen_retries - INTEGER
1380 Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy
1381 address if a DAD conflict is detected.
1382 Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217)
1383
Hannes Frederic Sowa2f711932014-09-02 15:49:25 +02001384mld_qrv - INTEGER
1385 Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1).
1386 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1)
1387 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1388
Tom Herbert47d3d7a2017-10-30 14:16:00 -07001389max_dst_opts_cnt - INTEGER
1390 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Destination
1391 options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1392 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1393 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1394 Default: 8
1395
1396max_hbh_opts_cnt - INTEGER
1397 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Hop-by-Hop
1398 options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1399 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1400 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1401 Default: 8
1402
1403max dst_opts_len - INTEGER
1404 Maximum length allowed for a Destination options extension
1405 header.
1406 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1407
1408max hbh_opts_len - INTEGER
1409 Maximum length allowed for a Hop-by-Hop options extension
1410 header.
1411 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1412
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001413IPv6 Fragmentation:
1414
1415ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001416 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001417 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
1418 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
1419 is reached.
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001420
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001421ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001422 See ip6frag_high_thresh
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001423
1424ip6frag_time - INTEGER
1425 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
1426
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001427conf/default/*:
1428 Change the interface-specific default settings.
1429
1430
1431conf/all/*:
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001432 Change all the interface-specific settings.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001433
1434 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
1435
1436conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001437 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001438
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001439 IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001440 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
1441
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001442 This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001443 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details.
1444
1445 This referred to as global forwarding.
1446
YOSHIFUJI Hideakifbea49e2006-09-22 14:43:49 -07001447proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
1448 Do proxy ndp.
1449
Loganaden Velvindron219b5f22014-11-04 03:02:49 -08001450fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
1451 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not
1452 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies).
1453 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
1454 fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
1455 Default: 0
1456
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001457conf/interface/*:
1458 Change special settings per interface.
1459
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001460 The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001461 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
1462
Roy.Li605b91c2011-09-28 19:51:54 +00001463accept_ra - INTEGER
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001464 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001465
Tore Anderson026359b2011-08-28 23:47:33 +00001466 It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
1467 Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
1468 accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
1469 transmitted.
1470
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001471 Possible values are:
1472 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements.
1473 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
1474 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
1475 even if forwarding is enabled.
1476
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001477 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1478 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1479
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki65f5c7c2006-03-20 16:55:08 -08001480accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
1481 Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
1482
1483 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1484 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1485
Ben Greeard9333192014-06-25 14:44:53 -07001486accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN
1487 Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine
1488 if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted.
1489 Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended
1490 network loop.
1491
1492 Functional default:
1493 enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled
1494 on a specific interface.
1495 disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled
1496 on a specific interface.
1497
Hangbin Liu8013d1d2015-07-30 14:28:42 +08001498accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER
1499 Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement.
1500
1501 Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this
1502 variable shall be ignored.
1503
1504 Default: 1
1505
YOSHIFUJI Hideakic4fd30e2006-03-20 16:55:26 -08001506accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
Matt LaPlante2fe0ae72006-10-03 22:50:39 +02001507 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
YOSHIFUJI Hideakic4fd30e2006-03-20 16:55:26 -08001508
1509 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1510 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1511
Joel Scherpelzbbea1242017-03-22 18:19:04 +09001512accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER
1513 Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1514
1515 Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall
1516 be ignored.
1517
1518 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1519 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1520
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki09c884d2006-03-20 17:07:03 -08001521accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
1522 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1523
Joel Scherpelzbbea1242017-03-22 18:19:04 +09001524 Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall
1525 be ignored.
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki09c884d2006-03-20 17:07:03 -08001526
1527 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1528 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1529
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki930d6ff2006-03-20 17:05:30 -08001530accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
1531 Accept Router Preference in RA.
1532
1533 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1534 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1535
Harout Hedeshianc2943f12015-01-20 10:06:05 -07001536accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
1537 Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
1538 disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
1539
1540 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1541 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1542
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001543accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1544 Accept Redirects.
1545
1546 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1547 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1548
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki0bcbc922007-04-24 14:58:30 -07001549accept_source_route - INTEGER
1550 Accept source routing (routing extension header).
1551
YOSHIFUJI Hideakibb4dbf92007-07-10 22:55:49 -07001552 >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki0bcbc922007-04-24 14:58:30 -07001553 < 0: Do not accept routing header.
1554
1555 Default: 0
1556
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001557autoconf - BOOLEAN
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001558 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001559 Advertisements.
1560
YOSHIFUJI Hideakic4fd30e2006-03-20 16:55:26 -08001561 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
1562 disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001563
1564dad_transmits - INTEGER
1565 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
1566 Default: 1
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001567
Roy.Li605b91c2011-09-28 19:51:54 +00001568forwarding - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001569 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
1570
1571 Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001572 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
1573
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001574 Possible values are:
1575 0 Forwarding disabled
1576 1 Forwarding enabled
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001577
1578 FALSE (0):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001579
1580 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
1581
1582 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
Tore Anderson026359b2011-08-28 23:47:33 +00001583 2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
1584 Solicitations.
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001585 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001586 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
1587 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
1588
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001589 TRUE (1):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001590
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001591 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001592 This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1593
1594 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
Tore Anderson026359b2011-08-28 23:47:33 +00001595 2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001596 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001597 4. Redirects are ignored.
1598
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001599 Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
1600 otherwise 1 (enabled).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001601
1602hop_limit - INTEGER
1603 Default Hop Limit to set.
1604 Default: 64
1605
1606mtu - INTEGER
1607 Default Maximum Transfer Unit
1608 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
1609
Tom Herbert35a256f2015-07-08 16:58:22 -07001610ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
1611 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses,
1612 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
1613 Default: 0
1614
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki52e163562006-03-20 17:05:47 -08001615router_probe_interval - INTEGER
1616 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
1617 in RFC4191.
1618
1619 Default: 60
1620
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001621router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
1622 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
1623 before sending Router Solicitations.
1624 Default: 1
1625
1626router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
1627 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
1628 Default: 4
1629
1630router_solicitations - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001631 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001632 routers are present.
1633 Default: 3
1634
Erik Kline3985e8a2015-07-22 16:38:25 +09001635use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN
1636 When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations
1637 routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
1638 configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
1639
1640 Default: false
1641
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001642use_tempaddr - INTEGER
1643 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
1644 <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
1645 == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
1646 addresses over temporary addresses.
1647 > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
1648 addresses over public addresses.
1649 Default: 0 (for most devices)
1650 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
1651
1652temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
1653 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1654 Default: 604800 (7 days)
1655
1656temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
1657 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1658 Default: 86400 (1 day)
1659
David Ahernf1705ec2016-02-24 09:25:37 -08001660keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER
1661 Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static
1662 global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed.
1663 >0 : enabled
1664 0 : system default
1665 <0 : disabled
1666
1667 Default: 0 (addresses are removed)
1668
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001669max_desync_factor - INTEGER
1670 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001671 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001672 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
1673 value is in seconds.
1674 Default: 600
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001675
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001676regen_max_retry - INTEGER
1677 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
1678 valid temporary addresses.
1679 Default: 5
1680
1681max_addresses - INTEGER
Brian Haleye79dc482010-02-22 12:27:21 +00001682 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting
1683 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this
1684 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
1685 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001686 Default: 16
1687
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki778d80b2008-06-28 14:17:11 +09001688disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
Brian Haley9bdd8d42009-03-18 18:22:48 -07001689 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
1690 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
1691 address.
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki778d80b2008-06-28 14:17:11 +09001692 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
1693
Brian Haley56d417b2009-06-01 03:07:33 -07001694 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
1695 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
1696 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
1697
1698 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
1699 it will dynamically delete all address on the given interface.
1700
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki1b34be72008-06-28 14:18:38 +09001701accept_dad - INTEGER
1702 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
1703 0: Disable DAD
1704 1: Enable DAD (default)
1705 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
1706 link-local address has been found.
1707
Matteo Croce35e015e2017-09-12 17:46:37 +02001708 DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according
1709 to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad.
1710
Octavian Purdilaf7734fd2009-10-02 11:39:15 +00001711force_tllao - BOOLEAN
1712 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
1713 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
1714 Default: FALSE
1715
1716 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
1717
1718 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
1719 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
1720 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
1721 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
1722 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
1723 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
1724 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
1725 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
1726 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
1727 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
1728
Hannes Frederic Sowadb2b6202013-01-01 00:35:31 +00001729ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN
1730 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1731 0 - (default): do nothing
1732 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought
1733 up or hardware address changes.
1734
Hannes Frederic Sowafc4eba52013-08-14 01:03:46 +02001735mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1736 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1737 MLDv1 report retransmit will take place.
1738 Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1739
1740mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1741 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1742 MLDv2 report retransmit will take place.
1743 Default: 1000 (1 second)
1744
Daniel Borkmannf2127812013-09-04 00:19:44 +02001745force_mld_version - INTEGER
1746 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed
1747 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1
1748 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2
1749
Hannes Frederic Sowab800c3b2013-08-27 01:36:51 +02001750suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER
1751 Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation
1752 with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior:
1753 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1754 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1755
Erik Kline7fd25612014-10-28 18:11:14 +09001756optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN
1757 Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429).
Matteo Croce35e015e2017-09-12 17:46:37 +02001758 0: disabled (default)
1759 1: enabled
1760
1761 Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled
1762 if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1,
1763 it will be disabled otherwise.
Erik Kline7fd25612014-10-28 18:11:14 +09001764
1765use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
1766 If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during
1767 source address selection. Preferred addresses will still be chosen
1768 before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source
1769 address selection algorithm.
Matteo Croce35e015e2017-09-12 17:46:37 +02001770 0: disabled (default)
1771 1: enabled
1772
1773 This will be enabled if at least one of
1774 conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise.
Erik Kline7fd25612014-10-28 18:11:14 +09001775
Hannes Frederic Sowa9f0761c2015-03-23 23:36:06 +01001776stable_secret - IPv6 address
1777 This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6
1778 addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured
1779 ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will
1780 be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the
1781 addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the
1782 secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can
1783 overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused.
1784
1785 It is recommended to generate this secret during installation
1786 of a system and keep it stable after that.
1787
1788 By default the stable secret is unset.
1789
Johannes Bergabbc3042016-02-04 13:31:19 +01001790drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1791 Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer
1792 multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1793
1794 By default this is turned off.
1795
Johannes Berg7a02bf82016-02-04 13:31:20 +01001796drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
1797 Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
1798 a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1799 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1800
1801 By default this is turned off.
1802
Erik Nordmarkadc176c2016-12-02 14:00:08 -08001803enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN
1804 Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for
1805 duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal
1806 a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false
1807 detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send.
1808 The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of
1809 conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE.
1810 Default: TRUE
1811
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001812icmp/*:
1813ratelimit - INTEGER
1814 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
Stephen Hemminger6dbf4bc2008-07-01 19:29:07 -07001815 0 to disable any limiting,
1816 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1817 Default: 1000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001818
Alexander Duycke69948a2015-08-11 13:35:01 -07001819xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1820 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6
1821 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will
Florian Westphal3c2a89d2017-07-17 13:57:20 +02001822 refuse new allocations.
Alexander Duycke69948a2015-08-11 13:35:01 -07001823
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001824
1825IPv6 Update by:
1826Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
1827YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
1828
1829
1830/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
1831
1832bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
1833 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
1834 0 : disable this.
1835 Default: 1
1836
1837bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
1838 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
1839 0 : disable this.
1840 Default: 1
1841
1842bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
1843 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
1844 0 : disable this.
1845 Default: 1
1846
1847bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
Michael Milner516299d2007-04-12 22:14:23 -07001848 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
1849 0 : disable this.
Pablo Neira Ayuso49816822012-05-08 19:36:44 +02001850 Default: 0
Michael Milner516299d2007-04-12 22:14:23 -07001851
1852bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
1853 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001854 0 : disable this.
Pablo Neira Ayuso49816822012-05-08 19:36:44 +02001855 Default: 0
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001856
Pablo Neira Ayuso49816822012-05-08 19:36:44 +02001857bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
1858 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
1859 interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the vlan.
1860 This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the REDIRECT
1861 target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces. When no matching
1862 vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input device is
1863 set to the bridge interface.
1864 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
1865 Default: 0
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001866
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07001867proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
1868
1869addip_enable - BOOLEAN
1870 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1871 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides
1872 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
1873 associations.
1874
1875 1: Enable extension.
1876
1877 0: Disable extension.
1878
1879 Default: 0
1880
Zhu Yanjun566178f2015-12-16 13:55:04 +08001881pf_enable - INTEGER
1882 Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value
1883 of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of
1884 both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state.
1885 Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace
1886 application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of
1887 pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans
1888 or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is
1889 enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable
1890 and disable pf state. See:
1891 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for
1892 details.
1893
1894 1: Enable pf.
1895
1896 0: Disable pf.
1897
1898 Default: 1
1899
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07001900addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
1901 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
1902 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
1903 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
1904 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older
1905 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
1906 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability,
1907 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
1908 authentication requirement.
1909
1910 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This
1911 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
1912 with older implementations.
1913
1914 0: Enforce the authentication requirement
1915
1916 Default: 0
1917
1918auth_enable - BOOLEAN
1919 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension
1920 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
1921 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1922 (ADD-IP) extension.
1923
1924 1: Enable this extension.
1925 0: Disable this extension.
1926
1927 Default: 0
1928
1929prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
1930 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
1931 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
1932
1933 1: Enable extension
1934 0: Disable
1935
1936 Default: 1
1937
1938max_burst - INTEGER
1939 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It
1940 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
1941
1942 Default: 4
1943
1944association_max_retrans - INTEGER
1945 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
1946 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value
1947 is exceeded, the association is terminated.
1948
1949 Default: 10
1950
1951max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
1952 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
1953 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
1954 unreachable and terminating.
1955
1956 Default: 8
1957
1958path_max_retrans - INTEGER
1959 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
1960 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
1961 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
1962 association is multihomed.
1963
1964 Default: 5
1965
Neil Horman5aa93bc2012-07-21 07:56:07 +00001966pf_retrans - INTEGER
1967 The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path
1968 before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one
1969 exist). Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that
1970 passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used. Its only
1971 deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack. This
1972 setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without
1973 having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See:
1974 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt
1975 for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans
Zhu Yanjun566178f2015-12-16 13:55:04 +08001976 disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can
1977 be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to
1978 disable pf state.
Neil Horman5aa93bc2012-07-21 07:56:07 +00001979
1980 Default: 0
1981
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07001982rto_initial - INTEGER
1983 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
1984 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval
1985 for retransmissions.
1986
1987 Default: 3000
1988
1989rto_max - INTEGER
1990 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
1991 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
1992
1993 Default: 60000
1994
1995rto_min - INTEGER
1996 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
1997 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
1998
1999 Default: 1000
2000
2001hb_interval - INTEGER
2002 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks
2003 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
2004 a given path between 2 associations.
2005
2006 Default: 30000
2007
2008sack_timeout - INTEGER
2009 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
2010 to send a SACK.
2011
2012 Default: 200
2013
2014valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
2015 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie
2016 is used during association establishment.
2017
2018 Default: 60000
2019
2020cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
2021 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
2022 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
2023
2024 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
2025 0: Disable
2026
2027 Default: 1
2028
Neil Horman3c681982012-10-24 09:20:03 +00002029cookie_hmac_alg - STRING
2030 Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by
2031 a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk.
2032 Valid values are:
2033 * md5
2034 * sha1
2035 * none
2036 Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the
stephen hemminger3b09adc2013-01-03 07:50:29 +00002037 configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and
Neil Horman3c681982012-10-24 09:20:03 +00002038 CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1).
2039
2040 Default: Dependent on configuration. MD5 if available, else SHA1 if
2041 available, else none.
2042
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07002043rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
2044 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
2045 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
2046 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is
2047 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
2048 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
2049 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this,
2050 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
2051 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described
2052 blocking.
2053
2054 1: rcvbuf space is per association
stephen hemminger3b09adc2013-01-03 07:50:29 +00002055 0: rcvbuf space is per socket
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07002056
2057 Default: 0
2058
2059sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
2060 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
2061
2062 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
2063 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
2064
2065 Default: 0
2066
2067sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
2068 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2069
2070 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
2071 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
2072 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
2073
2074 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
2075
2076 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2077
2078 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
2079
2080sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
Max Matveeva6e12042011-06-19 22:08:10 +00002081 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2082 ignored.
2083
2084 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
2085 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2086 under moderate memory pressure.
2087
2088 Default: 1 page
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07002089
2090sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
Max Matveeva6e12042011-06-19 22:08:10 +00002091 Currently this tunable has no effect.
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07002092
Bhaskar Dutta72388432009-09-03 17:25:47 +05302093addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
2094 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
2095
2096 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
2097 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
2098 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
2099 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
2100
2101 Default: 1
2102
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002103
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -07002104/proc/sys/net/core/*
Shan Weic60f6aa2012-04-26 16:52:52 +00002105 Please see: Documentation/sysctl/net.txt for descriptions of these entries.
Wang Tinggong705efc32009-05-14 22:49:36 +00002106
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002107
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -07002108/proc/sys/net/unix/*
Wang Tinggong705efc32009-05-14 22:49:36 +00002109max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
2110 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
2111
2112 Default: 10
2113
2114
2115UNDOCUMENTED:
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -07002116
2117/proc/sys/net/irda/*
2118 fast_poll_increase FIXME
2119 warn_noreply_time FIXME
2120 discovery_slots FIXME
2121 slot_timeout FIXME
2122 max_baud_rate FIXME
2123 discovery_timeout FIXME
2124 lap_keepalive_time FIXME
2125 max_noreply_time FIXME
2126 max_tx_data_size FIXME
2127 max_tx_window FIXME
2128 min_tx_turn_time FIXME