ipv4: Documenting two sysctls for tcp PMTU probe
Namely tcp_probe_interval to control how often to restart
a probe. And tcp_probe_threshold to control when stop the
probing in respect to the width of search range in bytes
Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 1b8c964..4412f69 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -388,6 +388,16 @@
1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
+tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER
+ Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
+ Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
+ per RFC4821.
+
+tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
+ Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
+ will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
+ is 8 bytes.
+
tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
when the connection closes, so that connections established in the