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7 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/* Variables:
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13 It sets the always mode drop rate, which is used in the mode 3
14 of the drop_rate defense.
19 It sets the available memory threshold (in pages), which is
20 used in the automatic modes of defense. When there is no
21 enough available memory, the respective strategy will be
22 enabled and the variable is automatically set to 2, otherwise
23 the strategy is disabled and the variable is set to 1.
26 - 0 - disabled (default)
29 If set, disable the director function while the server is
30 in backup mode to avoid packet loops for DR/TUN methods.
32 conn_reuse_mode - INTEGER
35 Controls how ipvs will deal with connections that are detected
36 port reuse. It is a bitmap, with the values being:
38 0: disable any special handling on port reuse. The new
39 connection will be delivered to the same real server that was
40 servicing the previous connection.
42 bit 1: enable rescheduling of new connections when it is safe.
43 That is, whenever expire_nodest_conn and for TCP sockets, when
44 the connection is in TIME_WAIT state (which is only possible if
47 bit 2: it is bit 1 plus, for TCP connections, when connections
48 are in FIN_WAIT state, as this is the last state seen by load
49 balancer in Direct Routing mode. This bit helps on adding new
50 real servers to a very busy cluster.
53 - 0 - disabled (default)
56 If set, maintain connection tracking entries for
57 connections handled by IPVS.
59 This should be enabled if connections handled by IPVS are to be
60 also handled by stateful firewall rules. That is, iptables rules
61 that make use of connection tracking. It is a performance
62 optimisation to disable this setting otherwise.
64 Connections handled by the IPVS FTP application module
65 will have connection tracking entries regardless of this setting.
67 Only available when IPVS is compiled with CONFIG_IP_VS_NFCT enabled.
69 cache_bypass - BOOLEAN
70 - 0 - disabled (default)
73 If it is enabled, forward packets to the original destination
74 directly when no cache server is available and destination
75 address is not local (iph->daddr is RTN_UNICAST). It is mostly
76 used in transparent web cache cluster.
79 - 0 - transmission error messages (default)
80 - 1 - non-fatal error messages
82 - 3 - destination trash
86 - 7 - connection new/expire, lookup and synchronization
87 - 8 - state transition
88 - 9 - binding destination, template checks and applications
89 - 10 - IPVS packet transmission
90 - 11 - IPVS packet handling (ip_vs_in/ip_vs_out)
91 - 12 or more - packet traversal
93 Only available when IPVS is compiled with CONFIG_IP_VS_DEBUG enabled.
95 Higher debugging levels include the messages for lower debugging
96 levels, so setting debug level 2, includes level 0, 1 and 2
97 messages. Thus, logging becomes more and more verbose the higher
101 - 0 - disabled (default)
103 The drop_entry defense is to randomly drop entries in the
104 connection hash table, just in order to collect back some
105 memory for new connections. In the current code, the
106 drop_entry procedure can be activated every second, then it
107 randomly scans 1/32 of the whole and drops entries that are in
108 the SYN-RECV/SYNACK state, which should be effective against
111 The valid values of drop_entry are from 0 to 3, where 0 means
112 that this strategy is always disabled, 1 and 2 mean automatic
113 modes (when there is no enough available memory, the strategy
114 is enabled and the variable is automatically set to 2,
115 otherwise the strategy is disabled and the variable is set to
116 1), and 3 means that the strategy is always enabled.
118 drop_packet - INTEGER
119 - 0 - disabled (default)
121 The drop_packet defense is designed to drop 1/rate packets
122 before forwarding them to real servers. If the rate is 1, then
123 drop all the incoming packets.
125 The value definition is the same as that of the drop_entry. In
126 the automatic mode, the rate is determined by the follow
127 formula: rate = amemthresh / (amemthresh - available_memory)
128 when available memory is less than the available memory
129 threshold. When the mode 3 is set, the always mode drop rate
130 is controlled by the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/vs/am_droprate.
132 est_cpulist - CPULIST
133 Allowed CPUs for estimation kthreads
135 Syntax: standard cpulist format
136 empty list - stop kthread tasks and estimation
137 default - the system's housekeeping CPUs for kthreads
140 "all": all possible CPUs
141 "0-N": all possible CPUs, N denotes last CPU number
142 "0,1-N:1/2": first and all CPUs with odd number
147 Valid range: -20 (more favorable) .. 19 (less favorable)
149 Niceness value to use for the estimation kthreads (scheduling
152 expire_nodest_conn - BOOLEAN
153 - 0 - disabled (default)
156 The default value is 0, the load balancer will silently drop
157 packets when its destination server is not available. It may
158 be useful, when user-space monitoring program deletes the
159 destination server (because of server overload or wrong
160 detection) and add back the server later, and the connections
161 to the server can continue.
163 If this feature is enabled, the load balancer will expire the
164 connection immediately when a packet arrives and its
165 destination server is not available, then the client program
166 will be notified that the connection is closed. This is
167 equivalent to the feature some people requires to flush
168 connections when its destination is not available.
170 expire_quiescent_template - BOOLEAN
171 - 0 - disabled (default)
174 When set to a non-zero value, the load balancer will expire
175 persistent templates when the destination server is quiescent.
176 This may be useful, when a user makes a destination server
177 quiescent by setting its weight to 0 and it is desired that
178 subsequent otherwise persistent connections are sent to a
179 different destination server. By default new persistent
180 connections are allowed to quiescent destination servers.
182 If this feature is enabled, the load balancer will expire the
183 persistence template if it is to be used to schedule a new
184 connection and the destination server is quiescent.
186 ignore_tunneled - BOOLEAN
187 - 0 - disabled (default)
190 If set, ipvs will set the ipvs_property on all packets which are of
191 unrecognized protocols. This prevents us from routing tunneled
192 protocols like ipip, which is useful to prevent rescheduling
193 packets that have been tunneled to the ipvs host (i.e. to prevent
194 ipvs routing loops when ipvs is also acting as a real server).
196 nat_icmp_send - BOOLEAN
197 - 0 - disabled (default)
200 It controls sending icmp error messages (ICMP_DEST_UNREACH)
201 for VS/NAT when the load balancer receives packets from real
202 servers but the connection entries don't exist.
206 - not 0 - enabled (default)
208 By default, reject with FRAG_NEEDED all DF packets that exceed
209 the PMTU, irrespective of the forwarding method. For TUN method
210 the flag can be disabled to fragment such packets.
213 - 0 - disabled (default)
215 The secure_tcp defense is to use a more complicated TCP state
216 transition table. For VS/NAT, it also delays entering the
217 TCP ESTABLISHED state until the three way handshake is completed.
219 The value definition is the same as that of drop_entry and
222 sync_threshold - vector of 2 INTEGERs: sync_threshold, sync_period
225 It sets synchronization threshold, which is the minimum number
226 of incoming packets that a connection needs to receive before
227 the connection will be synchronized. A connection will be
228 synchronized, every time the number of its incoming packets
229 modulus sync_period equals the threshold. The range of the
230 threshold is from 0 to sync_period.
232 When sync_period and sync_refresh_period are 0, send sync only
233 for state changes or only once when pkts matches sync_threshold
235 sync_refresh_period - UNSIGNED INTEGER
238 In seconds, difference in reported connection timer that triggers
239 new sync message. It can be used to avoid sync messages for the
240 specified period (or half of the connection timeout if it is lower)
241 if connection state is not changed since last sync.
243 This is useful for normal connections with high traffic to reduce
244 sync rate. Additionally, retry sync_retries times with period of
245 sync_refresh_period/8.
247 sync_retries - INTEGER
250 Defines sync retries with period of sync_refresh_period/8. Useful
251 to protect against loss of sync messages. The range of the
252 sync_retries is from 0 to 3.
254 sync_qlen_max - UNSIGNED LONG
256 Hard limit for queued sync messages that are not sent yet. It
257 defaults to 1/32 of the memory pages but actually represents
258 number of messages. It will protect us from allocating large
259 parts of memory when the sending rate is lower than the queuing
262 sync_sock_size - INTEGER
265 Configuration of SNDBUF (master) or RCVBUF (slave) socket limit.
266 Default value is 0 (preserve system defaults).
271 The number of threads that master and backup servers can use for
272 sync traffic. Every thread will use single UDP port, thread 0 will
273 use the default port 8848 while last thread will use port
276 snat_reroute - BOOLEAN
278 - not 0 - enabled (default)
280 If enabled, recalculate the route of SNATed packets from
281 realservers so that they are routed as if they originate from the
282 director. Otherwise they are routed as if they are forwarded by the
285 If policy routing is in effect then it is possible that the route
286 of a packet originating from a director is routed differently to a
287 packet being forwarded by the director.
289 If policy routing is not in effect then the recalculated route will
290 always be the same as the original route so it is an optimisation
291 to disable snat_reroute and avoid the recalculation.
293 sync_persist_mode - INTEGER
296 Controls the synchronisation of connections when using persistence
298 0: All types of connections are synchronised
300 1: Attempt to reduce the synchronisation traffic depending on
301 the connection type. For persistent services avoid synchronisation
302 for normal connections, do it only for persistence templates.
303 In such case, for TCP and SCTP it may need enabling sloppy_tcp and
304 sloppy_sctp flags on backup servers. For non-persistent services
305 such optimization is not applied, mode 0 is assumed.
307 sync_version - INTEGER
310 The version of the synchronisation protocol used when sending
311 synchronisation messages.
313 0 selects the original synchronisation protocol (version 0). This
314 should be used when sending synchronisation messages to a legacy
315 system that only understands the original synchronisation protocol.
317 1 selects the current synchronisation protocol (version 1). This
318 should be used where possible.
320 Kernels with this sync_version entry are able to receive messages
321 of both version 1 and version 2 of the synchronisation protocol.
323 run_estimation - BOOLEAN
325 not 0 - enabled (default)
327 If disabled, the estimation will be suspended and kthread tasks
330 You can always re-enable estimation by setting this value to 1.
331 But be careful, the first estimation after re-enable is not