Commit bfb1e4e5 authored by Bert Hubert's avatar Bert Hubert Committed by David S. Miller

[NET]: Update some sysctl documentation.

I ran the following (crappy) script:
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In /proc/sys/ and found a host of undocumented sysctls. This patch documents
a number of them, and at least mentions the rest as 'TODO'. Please verify my
code-inspired documentation before applying!
Signed-off-by: default avatarBert Hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
parent 71279d2b
......@@ -1640,7 +1640,8 @@ flush
Writing to this file results in a flush of the routing cache.
gc_elastic, gc_interval, gc_min_interval, gc_tresh, gc_timeout
gc_elasticity, gc_interval, gc_min_interval, gc_tresh, gc_timeout,
gc_thresh, gc_thresh1, gc_thresh2, gc_thresh3
--------------------------------------------------------------
Values to control the frequency and behavior of the garbage collection
......
......@@ -17,6 +17,16 @@ ip_no_pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN
Disable Path MTU Discovery.
default FALSE
min_pmtu - INTEGER
default 562 - minimum discovered Path MTU
mtu_expires - INTEGER
Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
min_adv_mss - INTEGER
The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
never be lower than this setting.
IP Fragmentation:
ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER
......@@ -345,6 +355,19 @@ tcp_default_win_scale - INTEGER
conections.
Default: 7
tcp_frto - BOOLEAN
Enables F-RTO, an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments
where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
rather than intermediate router congestion.
somaxconn - INTEGER
Limit of TCP listen backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
Defaults to 128
IP Variables:
ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
......@@ -586,6 +609,19 @@ arp_ignore - INTEGER
The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
when ARP request is received on the {interface}
app_solicit - INTEGER
The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
mcast_solicit). Defaults to 0.
disable_policy - BOOLEAN
Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
tag - INTEGER
Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
Default value is 0.
......@@ -804,4 +840,25 @@ bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
Default: 1
UNDOCUMENTED:
dev_weight FIXME
discovery_slots FIXME
discovery_timeout FIXME
fast_poll_increase FIXME
ip6_queue_maxlen FIXME
lap_keepalive_time FIXME
lo_cong FIXME
max_baud_rate FIXME
max_dgram_qlen FIXME
max_noreply_time FIXME
max_tx_data_size FIXME
max_tx_window FIXME
min_tx_turn_time FIXME
mod_cong FIXME
no_cong FIXME
no_cong_thresh FIXME
slot_timeout FIXME
warn_noreply_time FIXME
$Id: ip-sysctl.txt,v 1.20 2001/12/13 09:00:18 davem Exp $
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