1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables:
7 Forward Packets between interfaces.
9 This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
10 parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
13 ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
14 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)
18 ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER
19 Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled in mode 1 and a
20 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.
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.
29 Mode 3 is a hardened 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.
44 default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU
46 ip_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
59 fwmark_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.
66 fib_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.
76 fib_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.
83 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
85 fib_sync_mem - UNSIGNED INTEGER
86 Amount of dirty memory from fib entries that can be backlogged before
87 synchronize_rcu is forced.
88 Default: 512kB Minimum: 64kB Maximum: 64MB
90 ip_forward_update_priority - INTEGER
91 Whether to update SKB priority from "TOS" field in IPv4 header after it
92 is forwarded. The new SKB priority is mapped from TOS field value
93 according to an rt_tos2priority table (see e.g. man tc-prio).
94 Default: 1 (Update priority.)
96 0 - Do not update priority.
99 route/max_size - INTEGER
100 Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase
101 this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
102 From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
103 as route cache is no longer used.
105 neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
106 Minimum number of entries to keep. Garbage collector will not
107 purge entries if there are fewer than this number.
110 neigh/default/gc_thresh2 - INTEGER
111 Threshold when garbage collector becomes more aggressive about
112 purging entries. Entries older than 5 seconds will be cleared
113 when over this number.
116 neigh/default/gc_thresh3 - INTEGER
117 Maximum number of non-PERMANENT neighbor entries allowed. Increase
118 this when using large numbers of interfaces and when communicating
119 with large numbers of directly-connected peers.
122 neigh/default/unres_qlen_bytes - INTEGER
123 The maximum number of bytes which may be used by packets
124 queued for each unresolved address by other network layers.
126 Setting negative value is meaningless and will return error.
127 Default: SK_WMEM_MAX, (same as net.core.wmem_default).
128 Exact value depends on architecture and kernel options,
129 but should be enough to allow queuing 256 packets
132 neigh/default/unres_qlen - INTEGER
133 The maximum number of packets which may be queued for each
134 unresolved address by other network layers.
135 (deprecated in linux 3.3) : use unres_qlen_bytes instead.
136 Prior to linux 3.3, the default value is 3 which may cause
137 unexpected packet loss. The current default value is calculated
138 according to default value of unres_qlen_bytes and true size of
142 mtu_expires - INTEGER
143 Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
145 min_adv_mss - INTEGER
146 The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
147 never be lower than this setting.
151 ipfrag_high_thresh - LONG INTEGER
152 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments.
154 ipfrag_low_thresh - LONG INTEGER
155 (Obsolete since linux-4.17)
156 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments before the kernel
157 begins to remove incomplete fragment queues to free up resources.
158 The kernel still accepts new fragments for defragmentation.
160 ipfrag_time - INTEGER
161 Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
163 ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
164 ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
165 maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
166 common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
167 not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
168 IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
169 probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
170 have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
171 is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
172 ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
173 address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
174 address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
175 lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
176 started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
178 Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
179 result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
180 reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
181 performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
182 likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
183 from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
188 inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
189 The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold
190 entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines
191 entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
192 passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
194 inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
195 Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment
196 time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is
197 guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
200 inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
201 Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after
202 this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
203 when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
209 Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
210 Defaults to 4096. (Was 128 before linux-5.4)
211 See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning for TCP sockets.
213 tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
214 If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
215 reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
216 occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
217 option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
218 cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
219 option can harm clients of your server.
221 tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
222 Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
223 (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
225 Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
228 tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
229 Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
230 processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
231 tcp_available_congestion_control.
232 Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
234 tcp_app_win - INTEGER
235 Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
236 buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
239 tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN
240 Enable TCP auto corking :
241 When applications do consecutive small write()/sendmsg() system calls,
242 we try to coalesce these small writes as much as possible, to lower
243 total amount of sent packets. This is done if at least one prior
244 packet for the flow is waiting in Qdisc queues or device transmit
245 queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior
246 when they know how/when to uncork their sockets.
249 tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
250 Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
251 More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
254 tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
255 The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
256 Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled,
257 this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
259 tcp_mtu_probe_floor - INTEGER
260 If MTU probing is enabled this caps the minimum MSS used for search_low
265 tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER
266 TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option,
267 as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691.
268 If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss,
269 it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss.
271 Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
273 tcp_congestion_control - STRING
274 Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
275 connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
276 additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
277 Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
278 For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice
280 [see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
283 Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
285 tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER
286 Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail
287 losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that
288 TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below)
295 Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by TCP.
296 ECN is used only when both ends of the TCP connection indicate
297 support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses due
298 to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal
299 congestion before having to drop packets.
301 0 Disable ECN. Neither initiate nor accept ECN.
302 1 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections and
303 also request ECN on outgoing connection attempts.
304 2 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections
305 but do not request ECN on outgoing connections.
308 tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN
309 If the kernel detects that ECN connection misbehaves, enable fall
310 back to non-ECN. Currently, this knob implements the fallback
311 from RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1., but we reserve that in future,
312 additional detection mechanisms could be implemented under this
313 knob. The value is not used, if tcp_ecn or per route (or congestion
314 control) ECN settings are disabled.
315 Default: 1 (fallback enabled)
318 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
320 tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
321 The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any
322 application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state
323 before it is aborted at the local end. While a perfectly
324 valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an
325 orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait
326 forever for the remote to close its end of the connection.
331 Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682.
332 F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
333 timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in networks where the
334 RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only
335 modification. It does not require any support from the peer.
337 By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO.
339 tcp_fwmark_accept - BOOLEAN
340 If set, incoming connections to listening sockets that do not have a
341 socket mark will set the mark of the accepting socket to the fwmark of
342 the incoming SYN packet. This will cause all packets on that connection
343 (starting from the first SYNACK) to be sent with that fwmark. The
344 listening socket's mark is unchanged. Listening sockets that already
345 have a fwmark set via setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_MARK, ...) are
350 tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER
351 Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments
352 in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing
353 connection but that are invalid due to any of these reasons:
355 (a) out-of-window sequence number,
356 (b) out-of-window acknowledgment number, or
357 (c) PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) check failure
359 This can help mitigate simple "ack loop" DoS attacks, wherein
360 a buggy or malicious middlebox or man-in-the-middle can
361 rewrite TCP header fields in manner that causes each endpoint
362 to think that the other is sending invalid TCP segments, thus
363 causing each side to send an unterminating stream of duplicate
364 acknowledgments for invalid segments.
366 Using 0 disables rate-limiting of dupacks in response to
367 invalid segments; otherwise this value specifies the minimal
368 space between sending such dupacks, in milliseconds.
370 Default: 500 (milliseconds).
372 tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
373 How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
376 tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
377 How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
378 connection is broken. Default value: 9.
380 tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
381 How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
382 tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
383 after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
384 will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
386 tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
387 Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index.
388 Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work
389 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets
390 derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in
391 which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was
392 compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
393 Default: 0 (disabled)
395 tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
396 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
398 tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
399 Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
400 held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
401 reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
402 only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
403 or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
404 (probably, after increasing installed memory),
405 if network conditions require more than default value,
406 and tune network services to linger and kill such states
407 more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
408 up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
410 tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
411 Maximal number of remembered connection requests (SYN_RECV),
412 which have not received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
413 This is a per-listener limit.
414 The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
415 increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
416 If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
417 Remember to also check /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
418 A SYN_RECV request socket consumes about 304 bytes of memory.
420 tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
421 Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
422 If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
423 and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
424 simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
425 but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
426 if network conditions require more than default value.
428 tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
429 min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
432 pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
433 of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
434 pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
437 max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
439 Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
442 tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER
443 The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT.
444 A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher)
445 minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic
446 engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT
447 inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds.
448 Possible values: 0 - 86400 (1 day)
451 tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
452 If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
453 automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
454 match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by
457 tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
458 Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three
461 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
462 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
464 tcp_probe_interval - UNSIGNED INTEGER
465 Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
466 Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
469 tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
470 Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
471 will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
474 tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
475 By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
476 when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
477 near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this
478 increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
479 degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
482 tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
483 Controls whether TCP saves ssthresh metrics in the route cache.
484 Default is 1, which disables ssthresh metrics.
486 tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
487 This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
488 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
489 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
491 The default value is 8.
492 If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
493 you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
494 may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
496 tcp_recovery - INTEGER
497 This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery
500 RACK: 0x1 enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost
501 retransmissions and tail drops. It also subsumes and disables
502 RFC6675 recovery for SACK connections.
503 RACK: 0x2 makes RACK's reordering window static (min_rtt/4).
504 RACK: 0x4 disables RACK's DUPACK threshold heuristic
508 tcp_reordering - INTEGER
509 Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
510 TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level
511 between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering
514 tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER
515 Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
516 300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it
517 if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode)
520 tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
521 Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
522 On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
525 tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
526 This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
527 something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
528 and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
529 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
531 RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
534 tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
535 This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
536 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
537 Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
538 exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
539 retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
541 The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
542 seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
543 TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
544 hypothetical timeout.
546 RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
547 which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
549 tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
550 If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
551 we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
555 tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
556 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
557 It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
561 default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
562 This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
563 Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
564 default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
565 less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
567 max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
568 selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
569 net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
570 automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
571 case this value is ignored.
572 Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
575 Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
577 tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns - LONG INTEGER
578 TCP tries to reduce number of SACK sent, using a timer
579 based on 5% of SRTT, capped by this sysctl, in nano seconds.
580 The default is 1ms, based on TSO autosizing period.
582 Default : 1,000,000 ns (1 ms)
584 tcp_comp_sack_nr - INTEGER
585 Max number of SACK that can be compressed.
586 Using 0 disables SACK compression.
590 tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
591 If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
592 window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
593 the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
594 be timed out after an idle period.
598 Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
599 Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
600 Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
603 tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
604 Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
605 be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
606 is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission
607 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
608 for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
610 tcp_syncookies - INTEGER
611 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
612 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
613 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
616 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
617 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
618 against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
619 in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
620 because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
621 another parameters until this warning disappear.
622 See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
624 syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
625 to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
626 of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
627 but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
628 SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
629 is seriously misconfigured.
631 If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
632 network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
633 unconditionally generation of syncookies.
635 tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
636 Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening
639 The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client
640 then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag,
641 rather than connect() to send data in SYN.
643 The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then
644 either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or
645 enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with
646 the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog.
648 The values (bitmap) are
649 0x1: (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
650 0x2: (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in
651 a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the
652 application before 3-way handshake finishes.
653 0x4: (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie
654 availability and without a cookie option.
655 0x200: (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
656 0x400: (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by
657 default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option.
661 Note that that additional client or server features are only
662 effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively.
664 tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER
665 Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets
666 when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens.
667 This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues
668 get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to
669 initial value when the blackhole issue goes away.
670 0 to disable the blackhole detection.
671 By default, it is set to 1hr.
673 tcp_fastopen_key - list of comma separated 32-digit hexadecimal INTEGERs
674 The list consists of a primary key and an optional backup key. The
675 primary key is used for both creating and validating cookies, while the
676 optional backup key is only used for validating cookies. The purpose of
677 the backup key is to maximize TFO validation when keys are rotated.
679 A randomly chosen primary key may be configured by the kernel if
680 the tcp_fastopen sysctl is set to 0x400 (see above), or if the
681 TCP_FASTOPEN setsockopt() optname is set and a key has not been
682 previously configured via sysctl. If keys are configured via
683 setsockopt() by using the TCP_FASTOPEN_KEY optname, then those
684 per-socket keys will be used instead of any keys that are specified via
687 A key is specified as 4 8-digit hexadecimal integers which are separated
688 by a '-' as: xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx. Leading zeros may be
689 omitted. A primary and a backup key may be specified by separating them
690 by a comma. If only one key is specified, it becomes the primary key and
691 any previously configured backup keys are removed.
693 tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
694 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
695 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value
696 is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission
697 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
698 for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
700 tcp_timestamps - INTEGER
701 Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
703 1: Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323 and use random offset for
704 each connection rather than only using the current time.
705 2: Like 1, but without random offsets.
708 tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER
709 Minimal number of segments per TSO frame.
710 Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames,
711 depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets.
712 For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big
713 TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets
714 if available window is too small.
717 tcp_pacing_ss_ratio - INTEGER
718 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
719 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
720 If TCP is in slow start, tcp_pacing_ss_ratio is applied
721 to let TCP probe for bigger speeds, assuming cwnd can be
722 doubled every other RTT.
725 tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER
726 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
727 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
728 If TCP is in congestion avoidance phase, tcp_pacing_ca_ratio
729 is applied to conservatively probe for bigger throughput.
732 tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
733 This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
734 can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
735 The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
736 building larger TSO frames.
739 tcp_tw_reuse - INTEGER
740 Enable reuse of TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
741 safe from protocol viewpoint.
744 2 - enable for loopback traffic only
745 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
749 tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
750 Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
752 tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
753 min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
754 Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
757 default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets. This
758 value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
759 It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
762 max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
763 send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
764 net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
765 automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
766 this value is ignored.
767 Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
769 tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER
770 A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue,
771 thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll()
772 reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per
773 socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will
774 also not add new buffers if the limit is hit.
776 This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for
777 sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change
778 to the global variable has immediate effect.
780 Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF)
782 tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
783 If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
784 remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
785 If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
786 not receive a window scaling option from them.
789 tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
790 Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
791 If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
792 determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
793 As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
794 timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
795 initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
796 non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
797 For more information on thin streams, see
798 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
801 tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER
802 Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket.
803 TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it
804 gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can
805 result in a large amount of packets queued on the local machine
806 (e.g.: qdiscs, CPU backlog, or device) hurting latency of other
807 flows, for typical pfifo_fast qdiscs. tcp_limit_output_bytes
808 limits the number of bytes on qdisc or device to reduce artificial
809 RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat.
810 Default: 1048576 (16 * 65536)
812 tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
813 Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
814 in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
817 tcp_rx_skb_cache - BOOLEAN
818 Controls a per TCP socket cache of one skb, that might help
819 performance of some workloads. This might be dangerous
820 on systems with a lot of TCP sockets, since it increases
823 Default: 0 (disabled)
827 udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
828 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
829 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
830 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
831 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
832 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
833 Default: 0 (disabled)
835 udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
836 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
838 min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its
839 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds
840 this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage.
842 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
844 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
846 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
848 udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
849 Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
850 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
851 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
854 udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
855 Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
856 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if
857 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
862 raw_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
863 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
864 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
865 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
866 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
867 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
872 cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
873 If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
874 cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
875 miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
876 invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
877 off and the cache will always be "safe".
880 cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
881 The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
882 hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits
883 the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
884 more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of
885 entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
886 causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
889 cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
890 Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
891 the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
892 This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
893 categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
896 cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
897 If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
898 ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during
899 ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
900 where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
901 result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
902 with other implementations that require strict checking.
907 ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
908 Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
909 choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
910 second the last local port number.
911 If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity
912 (one even and one odd value).
913 Must be greater than or equal to ip_unprivileged_port_start.
914 The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively.
916 ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
917 Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
918 applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
919 assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
920 number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
922 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
923 list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
924 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
925 ports and update the current list with the one given in the
928 Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
929 settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
930 when determining which ports are available for automatic port
933 You can reserve ports which are not in the current
934 ip_local_port_range, e.g.:
936 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
938 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
941 although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
942 if later the port range is changed to a value that will
943 include the reserved ports.
947 ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER
948 This is a per-namespace sysctl. It defines the first
949 unprivileged port in the network namespace. Privileged ports
950 require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them.
951 To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0. They must not
952 overlap with the ip_local_port_range.
956 ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
957 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
958 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
962 If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
963 If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
964 message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
968 ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN
969 Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for
970 certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this
971 for established TCP and connected UDP sockets.
973 It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that
974 reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it.
977 tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
978 Enable early demux for established TCP sockets.
981 udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
982 Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if
983 your system could experience more unconnected load.
986 icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
987 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
991 icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
992 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
993 TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
996 icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
997 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
998 icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
999 0 to disable any limiting,
1000 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1001 Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number
1002 of ICMP packets sent on all targets.
1005 icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER
1006 Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host.
1007 Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are
1008 controlled by this limit.
1011 icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER
1012 icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second,
1013 while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets.
1016 icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
1017 Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
1018 Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
1019 Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168)
1021 Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
1023 3 Destination Unreachable *
1028 C Parameter Problem *
1033 H Address Mask Request
1034 I Address Mask Reply
1036 * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
1038 icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
1039 Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
1040 frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
1041 If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
1042 will avoid log file clutter.
1045 icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
1047 If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
1048 the exiting interface.
1050 If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
1051 the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
1052 This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
1053 a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
1056 Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
1057 then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
1058 has one will be used regardless of this setting.
1062 igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
1063 Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
1066 Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
1067 report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
1068 datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
1071 The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group
1072 report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
1074 M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
1076 Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
1077 So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
1079 (65536-24) / 12 = 5459
1081 The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
1082 this number may be lower.
1084 igmp_max_msf - INTEGER
1085 Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a
1090 Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1).
1091 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1)
1092 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1094 force_igmp_version - INTEGER
1095 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback
1096 allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier
1097 Present timer expires.
1098 1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if
1099 receive IGMPv2/v3 query.
1100 2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive
1101 IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query.
1102 3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0.
1104 Note: this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376
1105 Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could
1106 ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make
1107 this value as default 0 is recommended.
1109 conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where
1110 "interface" is the name of your network interface)
1112 conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
1114 log_martians - BOOLEAN
1115 Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
1116 log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1117 conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
1118 it will be disabled otherwise
1120 accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1121 Accept ICMP redirect messages.
1122 accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
1123 - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
1124 forwarding for the interface is enabled
1126 - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
1127 case forwarding for the interface is disabled
1128 accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
1132 forwarding - BOOLEAN
1133 Enable IP forwarding on this interface. This controls whether packets
1134 received _on_ this interface can be forwarded.
1136 mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
1137 Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
1138 and a multicast routing daemon is required.
1139 conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
1140 routing for the interface
1143 Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
1144 are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
1145 the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
1146 The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
1147 to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
1149 Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
1150 the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
1151 two devices attached to different media.
1155 proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1156 conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
1157 it will be disabled otherwise
1159 proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
1160 Private VLAN proxy arp.
1161 Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
1162 (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
1164 This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
1165 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
1166 communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
1167 the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
1168 to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
1169 router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
1172 This technology is known by different names:
1173 In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
1174 Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
1175 Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
1176 Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
1178 shared_media - BOOLEAN
1179 Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
1180 Overrides secure_redirects.
1181 shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1182 conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
1183 it will be disabled otherwise
1186 secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
1187 Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the
1188 interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect
1190 Overridden by shared_media.
1191 secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1192 conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
1193 it will be disabled otherwise
1196 send_redirects - BOOLEAN
1197 Send redirects, if router.
1198 send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1199 conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
1200 it will be disabled otherwise
1203 bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
1204 Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
1205 not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
1206 BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
1207 conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
1210 Not Implemented Yet.
1212 accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
1213 Accept packets with SRR option.
1214 conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
1215 with SRR option on the interface
1216 default TRUE (router)
1219 accept_local - BOOLEAN
1220 Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
1221 suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
1222 local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
1225 route_localnet - BOOLEAN
1226 Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination
1227 while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes.
1231 0 - No source validation.
1232 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
1233 Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
1234 is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
1235 By default failed packets are discarded.
1236 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
1237 Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
1238 and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
1239 the packet check will fail.
1241 Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
1242 to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
1243 or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
1245 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
1246 when doing source validation on the {interface}.
1248 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
1251 arp_filter - BOOLEAN
1252 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
1253 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
1254 based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
1255 the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
1256 based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
1257 of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
1259 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
1260 from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
1261 sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
1262 IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
1263 particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
1264 balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
1266 arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1267 conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
1268 it will be disabled otherwise
1270 arp_announce - INTEGER
1271 Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
1272 source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
1274 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
1275 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
1276 subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
1277 hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
1278 address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
1279 configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
1280 request we will check all our subnets that include the
1281 target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
1282 such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
1283 address according to the rules for level 2.
1284 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
1285 In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
1286 and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
1287 the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
1288 for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
1289 interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
1290 local address is found we select the first local address
1291 we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
1292 with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
1293 even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
1295 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
1297 Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
1298 receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
1299 the level announces more valid sender's information.
1301 arp_ignore - INTEGER
1302 Define different modes for sending replies in response to
1303 received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
1304 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
1306 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1307 configured on the incoming interface
1308 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1309 configured on the incoming interface and both with the
1310 sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
1311 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
1312 only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
1314 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
1316 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
1317 when ARP request is received on the {interface}
1319 arp_notify - BOOLEAN
1320 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1321 0 - (default): do nothing
1322 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
1323 or hardware address changes.
1325 arp_accept - BOOLEAN
1326 Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not
1327 already present in the ARP table:
1328 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
1329 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
1331 Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
1332 ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
1334 If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
1335 gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
1336 if this setting is on or off.
1338 mcast_solicit - INTEGER
1339 The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state,
1340 when the associated hardware address is unknown. Defaults
1343 ucast_solicit - INTEGER
1344 The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when
1345 the hardware address is being reconfirmed. Defaults to 3.
1347 app_solicit - INTEGER
1348 The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
1349 via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
1350 mcast_resolicit). Defaults to 0.
1352 mcast_resolicit - INTEGER
1353 The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and
1354 app probes in PROBE state. Defaults to 0.
1356 disable_policy - BOOLEAN
1357 Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
1359 disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
1360 Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
1362 igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1363 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1364 IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place.
1365 Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1367 igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1368 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1369 IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place.
1370 Default: 1000 (1 seconds)
1372 promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN
1373 When a primary IP address is removed from this interface
1374 promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of
1375 removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses.
1377 drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1378 Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer
1379 multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1380 This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC
1381 1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons.
1384 drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN
1385 Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known
1386 good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1387 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1392 Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
1395 xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1396 (Obsolete since linux-4.14)
1397 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4
1398 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will
1399 refuse new allocations.
1401 igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN
1402 Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the
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1418 /proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
1420 IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
1421 apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
1423 bindv6only - BOOLEAN
1424 Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
1425 which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
1427 TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
1428 FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
1430 Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
1432 flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN
1433 Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label.
1434 You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the
1440 auto_flowlabels - INTEGER
1441 Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the
1442 packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to
1443 identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath
1444 Routing (see RFC 6438).
1445 0: automatic flow labels are completely disabled
1446 1: automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be
1447 disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL
1449 2: automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a
1450 per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option
1451 3: automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot
1452 be disabled by the socket option
1455 flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN
1456 Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is
1457 reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF
1458 is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437.
1463 flowlabel_reflect - INTEGER
1464 Control flow label reflection. Needed for Path MTU
1465 Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast
1466 environments. See RFC 7690 and:
1467 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01
1470 1: enabled for established flows
1472 Note that this prevents automatic flowlabel changes, as done
1473 in "tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission"
1474 and "tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit"
1476 2: enabled for TCP RESET packets (no active listener)
1477 If set, a RST packet sent in response to a SYN packet on a closed
1478 port will reflect the incoming flow label.
1480 4: enabled for ICMPv6 echo reply messages.
1484 fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
1485 Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes.
1486 Default: 0 (Layer 3)
1488 0 - Layer 3 (source and destination addresses plus flow label)
1489 1 - Layer 4 (standard 5-tuple)
1490 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
1492 anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN
1493 Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6
1499 idgen_delay - INTEGER
1500 Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry
1501 privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is
1503 Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217)
1505 idgen_retries - INTEGER
1506 Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy
1507 address if a DAD conflict is detected.
1508 Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217)
1511 Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1).
1512 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1)
1513 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1515 max_dst_opts_number - INTEGER
1516 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Destination
1517 options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1518 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1519 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1522 max_hbh_opts_number - INTEGER
1523 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Hop-by-Hop
1524 options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1525 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1526 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1529 max_dst_opts_length - INTEGER
1530 Maximum length allowed for a Destination options extension
1532 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1534 max_hbh_length - INTEGER
1535 Maximum length allowed for a Hop-by-Hop options extension
1537 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1539 skip_notify_on_dev_down - BOOLEAN
1540 Controls whether an RTM_DELROUTE message is generated for routes
1541 removed when a device is taken down or deleted. IPv4 does not
1542 generate this message; IPv6 does by default. Setting this sysctl
1543 to true skips the message, making IPv4 and IPv6 on par in relying
1544 on userspace caches to track link events and evict routes.
1545 Default: false (generate message)
1549 ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
1550 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
1551 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
1552 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
1555 ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
1556 See ip6frag_high_thresh
1558 ip6frag_time - INTEGER
1559 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
1561 IPv6 Segment Routing:
1563 seg6_flowlabel - INTEGER
1564 Controls the behaviour of computing the flowlabel of outer
1565 IPv6 header in case of SR T.encaps
1567 -1 set flowlabel to zero.
1568 0 copy flowlabel from Inner packet in case of Inner IPv6
1569 (Set flowlabel to 0 in case IPv4/L2)
1570 1 Compute the flowlabel using seg6_make_flowlabel()
1575 Change the interface-specific default settings.
1579 Change all the interface-specific settings.
1581 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
1583 conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
1584 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
1586 IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
1587 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
1589 This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
1590 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details.
1592 This referred to as global forwarding.
1597 fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
1598 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not
1599 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies).
1600 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
1601 fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
1605 Change special settings per interface.
1607 The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
1608 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
1611 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
1613 It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
1614 Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
1615 accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
1618 Possible values are:
1619 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements.
1620 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
1621 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
1622 even if forwarding is enabled.
1624 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1625 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1627 accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
1628 Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
1630 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1631 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1633 accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN
1634 Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine
1635 if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted.
1636 Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended
1640 enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled
1641 on a specific interface.
1642 disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled
1643 on a specific interface.
1645 accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER
1646 Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement.
1648 Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this
1649 variable shall be ignored.
1653 accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
1654 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
1656 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1657 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1659 accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER
1660 Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1662 Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall
1665 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1666 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1668 accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
1669 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1671 Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall
1674 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1675 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1677 accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
1678 Accept Router Preference in RA.
1680 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1681 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1683 accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
1684 Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
1685 disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
1687 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1688 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1690 accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1693 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1694 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1696 accept_source_route - INTEGER
1697 Accept source routing (routing extension header).
1699 >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
1700 < 0: Do not accept routing header.
1705 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
1708 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
1709 disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
1711 dad_transmits - INTEGER
1712 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
1715 forwarding - INTEGER
1716 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
1718 Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
1719 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
1721 Possible values are:
1722 0 Forwarding disabled
1723 1 Forwarding enabled
1727 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
1729 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1730 2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
1732 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
1733 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
1734 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
1738 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
1739 This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1741 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1742 2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
1743 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
1744 4. Redirects are ignored.
1746 Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
1747 otherwise 1 (enabled).
1750 Default Hop Limit to set.
1754 Default Maximum Transfer Unit
1755 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
1757 ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
1758 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses,
1759 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
1762 router_probe_interval - INTEGER
1763 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
1768 router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
1769 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
1770 before sending Router Solicitations.
1773 router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
1774 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
1777 router_solicitations - INTEGER
1778 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
1779 routers are present.
1782 use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN
1783 When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations
1784 routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
1785 configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
1789 use_tempaddr - INTEGER
1790 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
1791 <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
1792 == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
1793 addresses over temporary addresses.
1794 > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
1795 addresses over public addresses.
1796 Default: 0 (for most devices)
1797 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
1799 temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
1800 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1801 Default: 604800 (7 days)
1803 temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
1804 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1805 Default: 86400 (1 day)
1807 keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER
1808 Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static
1809 global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed.
1814 Default: 0 (addresses are removed)
1816 max_desync_factor - INTEGER
1817 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
1818 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
1819 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
1820 value is in seconds.
1823 regen_max_retry - INTEGER
1824 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
1825 valid temporary addresses.
1828 max_addresses - INTEGER
1829 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting
1830 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this
1831 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
1832 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
1835 disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
1836 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
1837 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
1839 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
1841 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
1842 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
1843 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
1845 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
1846 it will dynamically delete all addresses and routes on the given
1847 interface. From now on it will not possible to add addresses/routes
1848 to the selected interface.
1850 accept_dad - INTEGER
1851 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
1853 1: Enable DAD (default)
1854 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
1855 link-local address has been found.
1857 DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according
1858 to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad.
1860 force_tllao - BOOLEAN
1861 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
1862 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
1865 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
1867 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
1868 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
1869 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
1870 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
1871 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
1872 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
1873 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
1874 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
1875 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
1876 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
1878 ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN
1879 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1880 0 - (default): do nothing
1881 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought
1882 up or hardware address changes.
1884 ndisc_tclass - INTEGER
1885 The IPv6 Traffic Class to use by default when sending IPv6 Neighbor
1886 Discovery (Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor
1887 Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, Redirect) messages.
1888 These 8 bits can be interpreted as 6 high order bits holding the DSCP
1889 value and 2 low order bits representing ECN (which you probably want
1893 mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1894 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1895 MLDv1 report retransmit will take place.
1896 Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1898 mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1899 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1900 MLDv2 report retransmit will take place.
1901 Default: 1000 (1 second)
1903 force_mld_version - INTEGER
1904 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed
1905 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1
1906 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2
1908 suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER
1909 Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation
1910 with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior:
1911 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1912 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1914 optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN
1915 Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429).
1916 0: disabled (default)
1919 Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled
1920 if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1,
1921 it will be disabled otherwise.
1923 use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
1924 If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during
1925 source address selection. Preferred addresses will still be chosen
1926 before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source
1927 address selection algorithm.
1928 0: disabled (default)
1931 This will be enabled if at least one of
1932 conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise.
1934 stable_secret - IPv6 address
1935 This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6
1936 addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured
1937 ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will
1938 be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the
1939 addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the
1940 secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can
1941 overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused.
1943 It is recommended to generate this secret during installation
1944 of a system and keep it stable after that.
1946 By default the stable secret is unset.
1948 addr_gen_mode - INTEGER
1949 Defines how link-local and autoconf addresses are generated.
1951 0: generate address based on EUI64 (default)
1952 1: do no generate a link-local address, use EUI64 for addresses generated
1954 2: generate stable privacy addresses, using the secret from
1955 stable_secret (RFC7217)
1956 3: generate stable privacy addresses, using a random secret if unset
1958 drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1959 Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer
1960 multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1962 By default this is turned off.
1964 drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
1965 Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
1966 a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1967 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1969 By default this is turned off.
1971 enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN
1972 Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for
1973 duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal
1974 a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false
1975 detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send.
1976 The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of
1977 conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE.
1982 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 messages.
1983 0 to disable any limiting,
1984 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1987 ratemask - list of comma separated ranges
1988 For ICMPv6 message types matching the ranges in the ratemask, limit
1989 the sending of the message according to ratelimit parameter.
1991 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
1992 list of ranges (e.g. "0-127,129" for ICMPv6 message type 0 to 127 and
1993 129). Writing to the file will clear all previous ranges of ICMPv6
1994 message types and update the current list with the input.
1996 Refer to: https://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters/icmpv6-parameters.xhtml
1997 for numerical values of ICMPv6 message types, e.g. echo request is 128
1998 and echo reply is 129.
2000 Default: 0-1,3-127 (rate limit ICMPv6 errors except Packet Too Big)
2002 echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
2003 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2004 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol.
2007 echo_ignore_multicast - BOOLEAN
2008 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2009 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol via multicast.
2012 echo_ignore_anycast - BOOLEAN
2013 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2014 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol destined to anycast address.
2017 xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER
2018 (Obsolete since linux-4.14)
2019 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6
2020 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will
2021 refuse new allocations.
2025 Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
2026 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2029 /proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
2031 bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
2032 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
2036 bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
2037 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
2041 bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
2042 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
2046 bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
2047 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
2051 bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
2052 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
2056 bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
2057 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
2058 interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the vlan.
2059 This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the REDIRECT
2060 target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces. When no matching
2061 vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input device is
2062 set to the bridge interface.
2063 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
2066 proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
2068 addip_enable - BOOLEAN
2069 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2070 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides
2071 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
2074 1: Enable extension.
2076 0: Disable extension.
2081 Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value
2082 of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of
2083 both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state.
2084 Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace
2085 application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of
2086 pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans
2087 or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is
2088 enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable
2089 and disable pf state. See:
2090 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for
2100 Unset or enable/disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state
2101 exposure. Applications can control the exposure of the PF path state
2102 in the SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event and the SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO
2103 sockopt. When it's unset, no SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event with
2104 SCTP_ADDR_PF state will be sent and a SCTP_PF-state transport info
2105 can be got via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt; When it's enabled,
2106 a SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent for a transport becoming
2107 SCTP_PF state and a SCTP_PF-state transport info can be got via
2108 SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt; When it's diabled, no
2109 SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent and it returns -EACCES when
2110 trying to get a SCTP_PF-state transport info via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO
2113 0: Unset pf state exposure, Compatible with old applications.
2115 1: Disable pf state exposure.
2117 2: Enable pf state exposure.
2121 addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
2122 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
2123 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
2124 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
2125 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older
2126 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
2127 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability,
2128 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
2129 authentication requirement.
2131 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This
2132 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
2133 with older implementations.
2135 0: Enforce the authentication requirement
2139 auth_enable - BOOLEAN
2140 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension
2141 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
2142 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2145 1: Enable this extension.
2146 0: Disable this extension.
2150 prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
2151 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
2152 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
2160 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It
2161 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
2165 association_max_retrans - INTEGER
2166 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
2167 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value
2168 is exceeded, the association is terminated.
2172 max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
2173 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
2174 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
2175 unreachable and terminating.
2179 path_max_retrans - INTEGER
2180 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
2181 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
2182 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
2183 association is multihomed.
2187 pf_retrans - INTEGER
2188 The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path
2189 before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one
2190 exist). Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that
2191 passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used. Its only
2192 deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack. This
2193 setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without
2194 having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See:
2195 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt
2196 for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans
2197 disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can
2198 be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to
2203 ps_retrans - INTEGER
2204 Primary.Switchover.Max.Retrans (PSMR), it's a tunable parameter coming
2205 from section-5 "Primary Path Switchover" in rfc7829. The primary path
2206 will be changed to another active path when the path error counter on
2207 the old primary path exceeds PSMR, so that "the SCTP sender is allowed
2208 to continue data transmission on a new working path even when the old
2209 primary destination address becomes active again". Note this feature
2210 is disabled by initializing 'ps_retrans' per netns as 0xffff by default,
2211 and its value can't be less than 'pf_retrans' when changing by sysctl.
2215 rto_initial - INTEGER
2216 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
2217 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval
2218 for retransmissions.
2223 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
2224 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
2229 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
2230 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
2234 hb_interval - INTEGER
2235 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks
2236 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
2237 a given path between 2 associations.
2241 sack_timeout - INTEGER
2242 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
2247 valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
2248 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie
2249 is used during association establishment.
2253 cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
2254 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
2255 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
2257 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
2262 cookie_hmac_alg - STRING
2263 Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by
2264 a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk.
2269 Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the
2270 configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and
2271 CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1).
2273 Default: Dependent on configuration. MD5 if available, else SHA1 if
2274 available, else none.
2276 rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
2277 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
2278 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
2279 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is
2280 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
2281 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
2282 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this,
2283 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
2284 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described
2287 1: rcvbuf space is per association
2288 0: rcvbuf space is per socket
2292 sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
2293 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
2295 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
2296 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
2300 sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
2301 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2303 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
2304 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
2305 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
2307 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
2309 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2311 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
2313 sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2314 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2317 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
2318 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2319 under moderate memory pressure.
2323 sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2324 Currently this tunable has no effect.
2326 addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
2327 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
2329 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
2330 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
2331 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
2332 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
2337 /proc/sys/net/core/*
2338 Please see: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries.
2341 /proc/sys/net/unix/*
2342 max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
2343 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue