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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
Yuchung Cheng713bafe2017-11-08 13:01:26 -0800292 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800293
294tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
Rick Jonesd825da22012-12-10 11:33:00 +0000295 The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any
296 application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state
297 before it is aborted at the local end. While a perfectly
298 valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an
299 orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait
300 forever for the remote to close its end of the connection.
301 Cf. tcp_max_orphans
302 Default: 60 seconds
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800303
Ilpo Järvinen89808062007-02-27 10:10:55 -0800304tcp_frto - INTEGER
Yuchung Chenge33099f2013-03-20 13:33:00 +0000305 Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682.
Ilpo Järvinencd998892007-09-20 11:35:26 -0700306 F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
Yuchung Chenge33099f2013-03-20 13:33:00 +0000307 timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in networks where the
308 RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only
309 modification. It does not require any support from the peer.
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700310
Yuchung Chenge33099f2013-03-20 13:33:00 +0000311 By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700312
Neal Cardwell032ee422015-02-06 16:04:38 -0500313tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER
314 Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments
315 in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing
316 connection but that are invalid due to any of these reasons:
317
318 (a) out-of-window sequence number,
319 (b) out-of-window acknowledgment number, or
320 (c) PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) check failure
321
322 This can help mitigate simple "ack loop" DoS attacks, wherein
323 a buggy or malicious middlebox or man-in-the-middle can
324 rewrite TCP header fields in manner that causes each endpoint
325 to think that the other is sending invalid TCP segments, thus
326 causing each side to send an unterminating stream of duplicate
327 acknowledgments for invalid segments.
328
329 Using 0 disables rate-limiting of dupacks in response to
330 invalid segments; otherwise this value specifies the minimal
331 space between sending such dupacks, in milliseconds.
332
333 Default: 500 (milliseconds).
334
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700335tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
336 How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
337 Default: 2hours.
338
339tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
340 How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
341 connection is broken. Default value: 9.
342
343tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
344 How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
345 tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
346 after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
347 will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
348
David Ahern6dd9a142015-12-16 13:20:44 -0800349tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
350 Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index.
351 Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work
352 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets
353 derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in
354 which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was
355 compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
356
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800357tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
Florian Westphalb6690b12017-07-30 03:57:20 +0200358 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700359
360tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
361 Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
362 held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
363 reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
364 only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
365 or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
366 (probably, after increasing installed memory),
367 if network conditions require more than default value,
368 and tune network services to linger and kill such states
369 more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
370 up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
371
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700372tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
Peter Pan(潘卫平)99b53bd2011-12-05 21:39:41 +0000373 Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which have not
374 received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
375 The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
376 increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
377 If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700378
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800379tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
380 Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
381 If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
382 and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
383 simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
384 but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
385 if network conditions require more than default value.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700386
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800387tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
388 min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
389 memory appetite.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700390
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800391 pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
392 of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
393 pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
394 under "min".
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700395
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800396 max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700397
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800398 Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
399 memory.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700400
Yuchung Chengf6722582015-10-16 21:57:42 -0700401tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER
402 The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT.
403 A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher)
404 minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic
405 engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT
406 inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds.
407 Default: 300
408
John Heffner71599cd2007-02-27 10:03:56 -0800409tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700410 If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
John Heffner71599cd2007-02-27 10:03:56 -0800411 automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
412 match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by
413 default.
414
415tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
416 Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three
417 values:
418 0 - Disabled
419 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
420 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
421
Fan Dufab42762015-03-06 11:18:25 +0800422tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER
423 Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
424 Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
425 per RFC4821.
426
427tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
428 Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
429 will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
430 is 8 bytes.
431
John Heffner71599cd2007-02-27 10:03:56 -0800432tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
433 By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
434 when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
435 near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this
436 increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
Simon Arlott0f035b82007-10-20 01:30:25 +0200437 degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
John Heffner71599cd2007-02-27 10:03:56 -0800438 connections.
439
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800440tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
Damian Lukowski5d789222009-09-01 10:24:04 +0000441 This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
442 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
443 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
444
David S. Miller06b8fc52011-07-08 09:31:31 -0700445 The default value is 8.
Damian Lukowski5d789222009-09-01 10:24:04 +0000446 If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800447 you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
448 may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700449
Yuchung Cheng4f41b1c2015-10-16 21:57:47 -0700450tcp_recovery - INTEGER
451 This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery
452 features.
453
454 RACK: 0x1 enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost
455 retransmissions and tail drops.
Priyaranjan Jha1f255692017-11-03 16:38:48 -0700456 RACK: 0x2 makes RACK's reordering window static (min_rtt/4).
Yuchung Cheng4f41b1c2015-10-16 21:57:47 -0700457
458 Default: 0x1
459
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700460tcp_reordering - INTEGER
Eric Dumazetdca145f2014-10-27 21:45:24 -0700461 Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
462 TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level
463 between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +0000464 Default: 3
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700465
Eric Dumazetdca145f2014-10-27 21:45:24 -0700466tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER
467 Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
468 300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it
469 if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode)
470 Default: 300
471
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700472tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
473 Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
474 On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
475 certain TCP stacks.
476
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800477tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
Damian Lukowski5d789222009-09-01 10:24:04 +0000478 This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
479 something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
480 and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
481 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
482
483 RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
484 default.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700485
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800486tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
Damian Lukowski5d789222009-09-01 10:24:04 +0000487 This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
488 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
489 Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
490 exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
491 retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
492
493 The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
494 seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
495 TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
496 hypothetical timeout.
497
498 RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
499 which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700500
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800501tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
502 If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
503 we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
504 assassination.
505 Default: 0
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700506
507tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
508 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
509 It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
510 pressure.
Tonghao Zhanga61a86f2018-02-04 18:07:10 -0800511 Default: 4K
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700512
J. Bruce Fields53025f52008-07-10 16:47:41 -0700513 default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700514 This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
515 Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
516 default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
517 less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
518
519 max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
520 selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
J. Bruce Fields53025f52008-07-10 16:47:41 -0700521 net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
522 automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
523 case this value is ignored.
Eric Dumazetb49960a2012-05-02 02:28:41 +0000524 Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700525
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800526tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
527 Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
Rick Jones15d99e02006-03-20 22:40:29 -0800528
David S. Miller35089bb2006-06-13 22:33:04 -0700529tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
530 If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
531 window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
532 the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
533 be timed out after an idle period.
534 Default: 1
535
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800536tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700537 Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800538 Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
539 Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
540 Default: FALSE
541
542tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
543 Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
544 be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
Alex Bergmann6c9ff972012-08-31 02:48:31 +0000545 is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission
546 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
547 for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800548
549tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
Shan Weia3c910d2013-06-21 15:18:32 +0800550 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800551 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700552 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
Shan Weia3c910d2013-06-21 15:18:32 +0800553 Default: 1
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800554
555 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
556 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700557 against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800558 in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
559 because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
560 another parameters until this warning disappear.
561 See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
562
563 syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
564 to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
565 of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
566 but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -0700567 SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
Stephen Hemmingeref56e622006-11-09 16:37:26 -0800568 is seriously misconfigured.
569
Hannes Frederic Sowa5ad37d52013-07-26 17:43:23 +0200570 If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
571 network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
572 unconditionally generation of syncookies.
573
Yuchung Chengcf60af02012-07-19 06:43:09 +0000574tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
Yuchung Chengcebc5cb2016-08-22 17:17:54 -0700575 Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening
576 SYN packet.
577
578 The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client
579 then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag,
580 rather than connect() to send data in SYN.
581
582 The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then
583 either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or
584 enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with
585 the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog.
Yuchung Chengcf60af02012-07-19 06:43:09 +0000586
Jerry Chu10467162012-08-31 12:29:11 +0000587 The values (bitmap) are
Yuchung Chengcebc5cb2016-08-22 17:17:54 -0700588 0x1: (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
589 0x2: (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in
590 a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the
591 application before 3-way handshake finishes.
592 0x4: (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie
593 availability and without a cookie option.
594 0x200: (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
595 0x400: (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by
596 default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option.
Yuchung Chengcf60af02012-07-19 06:43:09 +0000597
Yuchung Chengcebc5cb2016-08-22 17:17:54 -0700598 Default: 0x1
Yuchung Chengcf60af02012-07-19 06:43:09 +0000599
Yuchung Chengcebc5cb2016-08-22 17:17:54 -0700600 Note that that additional client or server features are only
601 effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively.
Jerry Chu10467162012-08-31 12:29:11 +0000602
Wei Wangcf1ef3f2017-04-20 14:45:46 -0700603tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER
604 Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets
605 when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens.
606 This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues
607 get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to
608 initial value when the blackhole issue goes away.
Yuchung Cheng72685862017-12-12 13:10:40 -0800609 0 to disable the blackhole detection.
Wei Wangcf1ef3f2017-04-20 14:45:46 -0700610 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.
Tonghao Zhanga61a86f2018-02-04 18:07:10 -0800670 Default: 4K
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.
Tonghao Zhang320bd6d2018-03-13 21:57:17 -0700758 Default: 4K
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.
Tonghao Zhang320bd6d2018-03-13 21:57:17 -0700764 Default: 4K
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
David Ahernb4bac172018-03-02 08:32:18 -08001366fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
1367 Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes.
1368 Default: 0 (Layer 3)
1369 Possible values:
1370 0 - Layer 3 (source and destination addresses plus flow label)
1371 1 - Layer 4 (standard 5-tuple)
1372
FX Le Bail509aba32014-01-07 14:57:27 +01001373anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN
1374 Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6
1375 echo reply
1376 TRUE: enabled
1377 FALSE: disabled
1378 Default: FALSE
1379
Hannes Frederic Sowa9f0761c2015-03-23 23:36:06 +01001380idgen_delay - INTEGER
1381 Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry
1382 privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is
1383 detected.
1384 Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217)
1385
1386idgen_retries - INTEGER
1387 Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy
1388 address if a DAD conflict is detected.
1389 Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217)
1390
Hannes Frederic Sowa2f711932014-09-02 15:49:25 +02001391mld_qrv - INTEGER
1392 Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1).
1393 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1)
1394 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1395
Tom Herbert47d3d7a2017-10-30 14:16:00 -07001396max_dst_opts_cnt - INTEGER
1397 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Destination
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_hbh_opts_cnt - INTEGER
1404 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Hop-by-Hop
1405 options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1406 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1407 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1408 Default: 8
1409
1410max dst_opts_len - INTEGER
1411 Maximum length allowed for a Destination options extension
1412 header.
1413 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1414
1415max hbh_opts_len - INTEGER
1416 Maximum length allowed for a Hop-by-Hop options extension
1417 header.
1418 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1419
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001420IPv6 Fragmentation:
1421
1422ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001423 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001424 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
1425 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
1426 is reached.
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001427
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001428ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001429 See ip6frag_high_thresh
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001430
1431ip6frag_time - INTEGER
1432 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
1433
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001434conf/default/*:
1435 Change the interface-specific default settings.
1436
1437
1438conf/all/*:
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001439 Change all the interface-specific settings.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001440
1441 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
1442
1443conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001444 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001445
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001446 IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001447 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
1448
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001449 This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001450 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details.
1451
1452 This referred to as global forwarding.
1453
YOSHIFUJI Hideakifbea49e2006-09-22 14:43:49 -07001454proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
1455 Do proxy ndp.
1456
Loganaden Velvindron219b5f22014-11-04 03:02:49 -08001457fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
1458 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not
1459 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies).
1460 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
1461 fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
1462 Default: 0
1463
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001464conf/interface/*:
1465 Change special settings per interface.
1466
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001467 The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001468 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
1469
Roy.Li605b91c2011-09-28 19:51:54 +00001470accept_ra - INTEGER
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001471 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001472
Tore Anderson026359b2011-08-28 23:47:33 +00001473 It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
1474 Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
1475 accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
1476 transmitted.
1477
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001478 Possible values are:
1479 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements.
1480 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
1481 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
1482 even if forwarding is enabled.
1483
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001484 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1485 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1486
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki65f5c7c2006-03-20 16:55:08 -08001487accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
1488 Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
1489
1490 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1491 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1492
Ben Greeard9333192014-06-25 14:44:53 -07001493accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN
1494 Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine
1495 if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted.
1496 Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended
1497 network loop.
1498
1499 Functional default:
1500 enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled
1501 on a specific interface.
1502 disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled
1503 on a specific interface.
1504
Hangbin Liu8013d1d2015-07-30 14:28:42 +08001505accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER
1506 Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement.
1507
1508 Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this
1509 variable shall be ignored.
1510
1511 Default: 1
1512
YOSHIFUJI Hideakic4fd30e2006-03-20 16:55:26 -08001513accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
Matt LaPlante2fe0ae72006-10-03 22:50:39 +02001514 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
YOSHIFUJI Hideakic4fd30e2006-03-20 16:55:26 -08001515
1516 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1517 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1518
Joel Scherpelzbbea1242017-03-22 18:19:04 +09001519accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER
1520 Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1521
1522 Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall
1523 be ignored.
1524
1525 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1526 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1527
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki09c884d2006-03-20 17:07:03 -08001528accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
1529 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1530
Joel Scherpelzbbea1242017-03-22 18:19:04 +09001531 Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall
1532 be ignored.
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki09c884d2006-03-20 17:07:03 -08001533
1534 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1535 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1536
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki930d6ff2006-03-20 17:05:30 -08001537accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
1538 Accept Router Preference in RA.
1539
1540 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1541 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1542
Harout Hedeshianc2943f12015-01-20 10:06:05 -07001543accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
1544 Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
1545 disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
1546
1547 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1548 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1549
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001550accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1551 Accept Redirects.
1552
1553 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1554 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1555
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki0bcbc922007-04-24 14:58:30 -07001556accept_source_route - INTEGER
1557 Accept source routing (routing extension header).
1558
YOSHIFUJI Hideakibb4dbf92007-07-10 22:55:49 -07001559 >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki0bcbc922007-04-24 14:58:30 -07001560 < 0: Do not accept routing header.
1561
1562 Default: 0
1563
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001564autoconf - BOOLEAN
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001565 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001566 Advertisements.
1567
YOSHIFUJI Hideakic4fd30e2006-03-20 16:55:26 -08001568 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
1569 disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001570
1571dad_transmits - INTEGER
1572 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
1573 Default: 1
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001574
Roy.Li605b91c2011-09-28 19:51:54 +00001575forwarding - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001576 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
1577
1578 Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001579 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
1580
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001581 Possible values are:
1582 0 Forwarding disabled
1583 1 Forwarding enabled
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001584
1585 FALSE (0):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001586
1587 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
1588
1589 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
Tore Anderson026359b2011-08-28 23:47:33 +00001590 2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
1591 Solicitations.
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001592 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001593 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
1594 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
1595
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001596 TRUE (1):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001597
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001598 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001599 This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1600
1601 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
Tore Anderson026359b2011-08-28 23:47:33 +00001602 2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001603 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001604 4. Redirects are ignored.
1605
Thomas Grafae8abfa2010-09-03 05:47:30 +00001606 Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
1607 otherwise 1 (enabled).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001608
1609hop_limit - INTEGER
1610 Default Hop Limit to set.
1611 Default: 64
1612
1613mtu - INTEGER
1614 Default Maximum Transfer Unit
1615 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
1616
Tom Herbert35a256f2015-07-08 16:58:22 -07001617ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
1618 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses,
1619 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
1620 Default: 0
1621
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki52e163562006-03-20 17:05:47 -08001622router_probe_interval - INTEGER
1623 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
1624 in RFC4191.
1625
1626 Default: 60
1627
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001628router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
1629 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
1630 before sending Router Solicitations.
1631 Default: 1
1632
1633router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
1634 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
1635 Default: 4
1636
1637router_solicitations - INTEGER
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001638 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001639 routers are present.
1640 Default: 3
1641
Erik Kline3985e8a2015-07-22 16:38:25 +09001642use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN
1643 When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations
1644 routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
1645 configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
1646
1647 Default: false
1648
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001649use_tempaddr - INTEGER
1650 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
1651 <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
1652 == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
1653 addresses over temporary addresses.
1654 > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
1655 addresses over public addresses.
1656 Default: 0 (for most devices)
1657 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
1658
1659temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
1660 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1661 Default: 604800 (7 days)
1662
1663temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
1664 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1665 Default: 86400 (1 day)
1666
David Ahernf1705ec2016-02-24 09:25:37 -08001667keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER
1668 Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static
1669 global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed.
1670 >0 : enabled
1671 0 : system default
1672 <0 : disabled
1673
1674 Default: 0 (addresses are removed)
1675
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001676max_desync_factor - INTEGER
1677 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001678 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001679 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
1680 value is in seconds.
1681 Default: 600
Jesper Dangaard Brouere18f5fe2009-02-23 04:39:04 +00001682
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001683regen_max_retry - INTEGER
1684 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
1685 valid temporary addresses.
1686 Default: 5
1687
1688max_addresses - INTEGER
Brian Haleye79dc482010-02-22 12:27:21 +00001689 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting
1690 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this
1691 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
1692 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001693 Default: 16
1694
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki778d80b2008-06-28 14:17:11 +09001695disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
Brian Haley9bdd8d42009-03-18 18:22:48 -07001696 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
1697 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
1698 address.
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki778d80b2008-06-28 14:17:11 +09001699 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
1700
Brian Haley56d417b2009-06-01 03:07:33 -07001701 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
1702 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
1703 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
1704
1705 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
1706 it will dynamically delete all address on the given interface.
1707
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki1b34be72008-06-28 14:18:38 +09001708accept_dad - INTEGER
1709 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
1710 0: Disable DAD
1711 1: Enable DAD (default)
1712 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
1713 link-local address has been found.
1714
Matteo Croce35e015e2017-09-12 17:46:37 +02001715 DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according
1716 to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad.
1717
Octavian Purdilaf7734fd2009-10-02 11:39:15 +00001718force_tllao - BOOLEAN
1719 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
1720 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
1721 Default: FALSE
1722
1723 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
1724
1725 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
1726 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
1727 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
1728 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
1729 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
1730 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
1731 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
1732 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
1733 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
1734 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
1735
Hannes Frederic Sowadb2b6202013-01-01 00:35:31 +00001736ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN
1737 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1738 0 - (default): do nothing
1739 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought
1740 up or hardware address changes.
1741
Maciej Żenczykowski2210d6b2017-11-07 21:52:09 -08001742ndisc_tclass - INTEGER
1743 The IPv6 Traffic Class to use by default when sending IPv6 Neighbor
1744 Discovery (Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor
1745 Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, Redirect) messages.
1746 These 8 bits can be interpreted as 6 high order bits holding the DSCP
1747 value and 2 low order bits representing ECN (which you probably want
1748 to leave cleared).
1749 0 - (default)
1750
Hannes Frederic Sowafc4eba52013-08-14 01:03:46 +02001751mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1752 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1753 MLDv1 report retransmit will take place.
1754 Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1755
1756mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1757 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1758 MLDv2 report retransmit will take place.
1759 Default: 1000 (1 second)
1760
Daniel Borkmannf2127812013-09-04 00:19:44 +02001761force_mld_version - INTEGER
1762 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed
1763 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1
1764 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2
1765
Hannes Frederic Sowab800c3b2013-08-27 01:36:51 +02001766suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER
1767 Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation
1768 with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior:
1769 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1770 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1771
Erik Kline7fd25612014-10-28 18:11:14 +09001772optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN
1773 Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429).
Matteo Croce35e015e2017-09-12 17:46:37 +02001774 0: disabled (default)
1775 1: enabled
1776
1777 Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled
1778 if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1,
1779 it will be disabled otherwise.
Erik Kline7fd25612014-10-28 18:11:14 +09001780
1781use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
1782 If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during
1783 source address selection. Preferred addresses will still be chosen
1784 before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source
1785 address selection algorithm.
Matteo Croce35e015e2017-09-12 17:46:37 +02001786 0: disabled (default)
1787 1: enabled
1788
1789 This will be enabled if at least one of
1790 conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise.
Erik Kline7fd25612014-10-28 18:11:14 +09001791
Hannes Frederic Sowa9f0761c2015-03-23 23:36:06 +01001792stable_secret - IPv6 address
1793 This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6
1794 addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured
1795 ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will
1796 be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the
1797 addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the
1798 secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can
1799 overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused.
1800
1801 It is recommended to generate this secret during installation
1802 of a system and keep it stable after that.
1803
1804 By default the stable secret is unset.
1805
Johannes Bergabbc3042016-02-04 13:31:19 +01001806drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1807 Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer
1808 multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1809
1810 By default this is turned off.
1811
Johannes Berg7a02bf82016-02-04 13:31:20 +01001812drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
1813 Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
1814 a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1815 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1816
1817 By default this is turned off.
1818
Erik Nordmarkadc176c2016-12-02 14:00:08 -08001819enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN
1820 Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for
1821 duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal
1822 a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false
1823 detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send.
1824 The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of
1825 conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE.
1826 Default: TRUE
1827
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001828icmp/*:
1829ratelimit - INTEGER
1830 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
Stephen Hemminger6dbf4bc2008-07-01 19:29:07 -07001831 0 to disable any limiting,
1832 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1833 Default: 1000
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001834
Alexander Duycke69948a2015-08-11 13:35:01 -07001835xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1836 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6
1837 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will
Florian Westphal3c2a89d2017-07-17 13:57:20 +02001838 refuse new allocations.
Alexander Duycke69948a2015-08-11 13:35:01 -07001839
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001840
1841IPv6 Update by:
1842Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
1843YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
1844
1845
1846/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
1847
1848bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
1849 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
1850 0 : disable this.
1851 Default: 1
1852
1853bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
1854 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
1855 0 : disable this.
1856 Default: 1
1857
1858bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
1859 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
1860 0 : disable this.
1861 Default: 1
1862
1863bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
Michael Milner516299d2007-04-12 22:14:23 -07001864 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
1865 0 : disable this.
Pablo Neira Ayuso49816822012-05-08 19:36:44 +02001866 Default: 0
Michael Milner516299d2007-04-12 22:14:23 -07001867
1868bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
1869 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001870 0 : disable this.
Pablo Neira Ayuso49816822012-05-08 19:36:44 +02001871 Default: 0
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001872
Pablo Neira Ayuso49816822012-05-08 19:36:44 +02001873bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
1874 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
1875 interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the vlan.
1876 This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the REDIRECT
1877 target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces. When no matching
1878 vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input device is
1879 set to the bridge interface.
1880 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
1881 Default: 0
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001882
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07001883proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
1884
1885addip_enable - BOOLEAN
1886 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1887 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides
1888 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
1889 associations.
1890
1891 1: Enable extension.
1892
1893 0: Disable extension.
1894
1895 Default: 0
1896
Zhu Yanjun566178f2015-12-16 13:55:04 +08001897pf_enable - INTEGER
1898 Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value
1899 of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of
1900 both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state.
1901 Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace
1902 application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of
1903 pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans
1904 or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is
1905 enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable
1906 and disable pf state. See:
1907 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for
1908 details.
1909
1910 1: Enable pf.
1911
1912 0: Disable pf.
1913
1914 Default: 1
1915
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07001916addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
1917 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
1918 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
1919 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
1920 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older
1921 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
1922 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability,
1923 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
1924 authentication requirement.
1925
1926 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This
1927 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
1928 with older implementations.
1929
1930 0: Enforce the authentication requirement
1931
1932 Default: 0
1933
1934auth_enable - BOOLEAN
1935 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension
1936 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
1937 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1938 (ADD-IP) extension.
1939
1940 1: Enable this extension.
1941 0: Disable this extension.
1942
1943 Default: 0
1944
1945prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
1946 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
1947 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
1948
1949 1: Enable extension
1950 0: Disable
1951
1952 Default: 1
1953
1954max_burst - INTEGER
1955 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It
1956 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
1957
1958 Default: 4
1959
1960association_max_retrans - INTEGER
1961 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
1962 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value
1963 is exceeded, the association is terminated.
1964
1965 Default: 10
1966
1967max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
1968 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
1969 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
1970 unreachable and terminating.
1971
1972 Default: 8
1973
1974path_max_retrans - INTEGER
1975 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
1976 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
1977 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
1978 association is multihomed.
1979
1980 Default: 5
1981
Neil Horman5aa93bc2012-07-21 07:56:07 +00001982pf_retrans - INTEGER
1983 The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path
1984 before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one
1985 exist). Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that
1986 passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used. Its only
1987 deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack. This
1988 setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without
1989 having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See:
1990 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt
1991 for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans
Zhu Yanjun566178f2015-12-16 13:55:04 +08001992 disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can
1993 be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to
1994 disable pf state.
Neil Horman5aa93bc2012-07-21 07:56:07 +00001995
1996 Default: 0
1997
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07001998rto_initial - INTEGER
1999 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
2000 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval
2001 for retransmissions.
2002
2003 Default: 3000
2004
2005rto_max - INTEGER
2006 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
2007 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
2008
2009 Default: 60000
2010
2011rto_min - INTEGER
2012 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
2013 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
2014
2015 Default: 1000
2016
2017hb_interval - INTEGER
2018 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks
2019 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
2020 a given path between 2 associations.
2021
2022 Default: 30000
2023
2024sack_timeout - INTEGER
2025 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
2026 to send a SACK.
2027
2028 Default: 200
2029
2030valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
2031 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie
2032 is used during association establishment.
2033
2034 Default: 60000
2035
2036cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
2037 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
2038 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
2039
2040 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
2041 0: Disable
2042
2043 Default: 1
2044
Neil Horman3c681982012-10-24 09:20:03 +00002045cookie_hmac_alg - STRING
2046 Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by
2047 a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk.
2048 Valid values are:
2049 * md5
2050 * sha1
2051 * none
2052 Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the
stephen hemminger3b09adc2013-01-03 07:50:29 +00002053 configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and
Neil Horman3c681982012-10-24 09:20:03 +00002054 CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1).
2055
2056 Default: Dependent on configuration. MD5 if available, else SHA1 if
2057 available, else none.
2058
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07002059rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
2060 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
2061 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
2062 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is
2063 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
2064 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
2065 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this,
2066 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
2067 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described
2068 blocking.
2069
2070 1: rcvbuf space is per association
stephen hemminger3b09adc2013-01-03 07:50:29 +00002071 0: rcvbuf space is per socket
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07002072
2073 Default: 0
2074
2075sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
2076 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
2077
2078 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
2079 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
2080
2081 Default: 0
2082
2083sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
2084 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2085
2086 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
2087 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
2088 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
2089
2090 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
2091
2092 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2093
2094 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
2095
2096sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
Max Matveeva6e12042011-06-19 22:08:10 +00002097 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2098 ignored.
2099
2100 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
2101 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2102 under moderate memory pressure.
2103
Tonghao Zhang320bd6d2018-03-13 21:57:17 -07002104 Default: 4K
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07002105
2106sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
Max Matveeva6e12042011-06-19 22:08:10 +00002107 Currently this tunable has no effect.
Vlad Yasevich32e8d492008-07-08 16:43:29 -07002108
Bhaskar Dutta72388432009-09-03 17:25:47 +05302109addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
2110 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
2111
2112 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
2113 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
2114 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
2115 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
2116
2117 Default: 1
2118
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002119
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -07002120/proc/sys/net/core/*
Shan Weic60f6aa2012-04-26 16:52:52 +00002121 Please see: Documentation/sysctl/net.txt for descriptions of these entries.
Wang Tinggong705efc32009-05-14 22:49:36 +00002122
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002123
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -07002124/proc/sys/net/unix/*
Wang Tinggong705efc32009-05-14 22:49:36 +00002125max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
2126 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
2127
2128 Default: 10
2129
2130
2131UNDOCUMENTED:
Stephen Hemminger4edc2f32008-07-10 16:50:26 -07002132
2133/proc/sys/net/irda/*
2134 fast_poll_increase FIXME
2135 warn_noreply_time FIXME
2136 discovery_slots FIXME
2137 slot_timeout FIXME
2138 max_baud_rate FIXME
2139 discovery_timeout FIXME
2140 lap_keepalive_time FIXME
2141 max_noreply_time FIXME
2142 max_tx_data_size FIXME
2143 max_tx_window FIXME
2144 min_tx_turn_time FIXME