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1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables:
2
3 ip_forward - BOOLEAN
4 0 - disabled (default)
5 not 0 - enabled
6
7 Forward Packets between interfaces.
8
9 This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
10 parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
11 for routers)
12
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)
17
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.
24
25 In mode 2 incoming Path MTU Discovery messages will be
26 discarded. Outgoing frames are handled the same as in mode 1,
27 implicitly setting IP_PMTUDISC_DONT on every created socket.
28
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.
39
40 Possible values: 0-3
41 Default: FALSE
42
43 min_pmtu - INTEGER
44 default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU
45
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
53 case.
54 Default: 0 (disabled)
55 Possible values:
56 0 - disabled
57 1 - enabled
58
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.
64 Default: 0
65
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.
71 Default: 0 (disabled)
72 Possible values:
73 0 - disabled
74 1 - enabled
75
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.
79 Default: 0 (Layer 3)
80 Possible values:
81 0 - Layer 3
82 1 - Layer 4
83 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
84
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
89
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.)
95 Possible values:
96 0 - Do not update priority.
97 1 - Update priority.
98
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.
104
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.
108 Default: 128
109
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.
114 Default: 512
115
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.
120 Default: 1024
121
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.
125 (added in linux 3.3)
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
130 of medium size.
131
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
139 packet.
140 Default: 101
141
142 mtu_expires - INTEGER
143 Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
144
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.
148
149 IP Fragmentation:
150
151 ipfrag_high_thresh - LONG INTEGER
152 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments.
153
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.
159
160 ipfrag_time - INTEGER
161 Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
162
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.
177
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.
184 Default: 64
185
186 INET peer storage:
187
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.
193
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.
198 Measured in seconds.
199
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).
204 Measured in seconds.
205
206 TCP variables:
207
208 somaxconn - INTEGER
209 Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
210 Defaults to 128. See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
211 for TCP sockets.
212
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.
220
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),
224 if it is <= 0.
225 Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
226 Default: 1
227
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).
233
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.
237 Default: 31
238
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.
247 Default : 1
248
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,
252 but not loaded.
253
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.
258
259 tcp_mtu_probe_floor - INTEGER
260 If MTU probing is enabled this caps the minimum MSS used for search_low
261 for the connection.
262
263 Default : 48
264
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.
270
271 Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
272
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
279 is inherited.
280 [see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
281
282 tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
283 Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
284
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)
289 Possible values:
290 0 disables TLP
291 3 or 4 enables TLP
292 Default: 3
293
294 tcp_ecn - INTEGER
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.
300 Possible values are:
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.
306 Default: 2
307
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)
316
317 tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
318 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
319
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.
327 Cf. tcp_max_orphans
328 Default: 60 seconds
329
330 tcp_frto - INTEGER
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.
336
337 By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO.
338
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
346 unaffected.
347
348 Default: 0
349
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:
354
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
358
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.
365
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.
369
370 Default: 500 (milliseconds).
371
372 tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
373 How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
374 Default: 2hours.
375
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.
379
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.
385
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)
394
395 tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
396 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
397
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.
409
410 tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
411 Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which have not
412 received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
413 The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
414 increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
415 If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
416
417 tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
418 Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
419 If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
420 and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
421 simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
422 but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
423 if network conditions require more than default value.
424
425 tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
426 min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
427 memory appetite.
428
429 pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
430 of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
431 pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
432 under "min".
433
434 max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
435
436 Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
437 memory.
438
439 tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER
440 The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT.
441 A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher)
442 minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic
443 engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT
444 inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds.
445 Possible values: 0 - 86400 (1 day)
446 Default: 300
447
448 tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
449 If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
450 automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
451 match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by
452 default.
453
454 tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
455 Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three
456 values:
457 0 - Disabled
458 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
459 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
460
461 tcp_probe_interval - UNSIGNED INTEGER
462 Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
463 Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
464 per RFC4821.
465
466 tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
467 Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
468 will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
469 is 8 bytes.
470
471 tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
472 By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
473 when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
474 near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this
475 increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
476 degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
477 connections.
478
479 tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
480 This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
481 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
482 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
483
484 The default value is 8.
485 If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
486 you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
487 may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
488
489 tcp_recovery - INTEGER
490 This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery
491 features.
492
493 RACK: 0x1 enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost
494 retransmissions and tail drops. It also subsumes and disables
495 RFC6675 recovery for SACK connections.
496 RACK: 0x2 makes RACK's reordering window static (min_rtt/4).
497 RACK: 0x4 disables RACK's DUPACK threshold heuristic
498
499 Default: 0x1
500
501 tcp_reordering - INTEGER
502 Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
503 TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level
504 between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering
505 Default: 3
506
507 tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER
508 Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
509 300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it
510 if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode)
511 Default: 300
512
513 tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
514 Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
515 On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
516 certain TCP stacks.
517
518 tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
519 This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
520 something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
521 and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
522 See tcp_retries2 for more details.
523
524 RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
525 default.
526
527 tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
528 This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
529 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
530 Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
531 exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
532 retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
533
534 The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
535 seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
536 TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
537 hypothetical timeout.
538
539 RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
540 which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
541
542 tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
543 If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
544 we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
545 assassination.
546 Default: 0
547
548 tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
549 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
550 It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
551 pressure.
552 Default: 4K
553
554 default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
555 This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
556 Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
557 default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
558 less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
559
560 max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
561 selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
562 net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
563 automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
564 case this value is ignored.
565 Default: between 87380B and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
566
567 tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
568 Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
569
570 tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns - LONG INTEGER
571 TCP tries to reduce number of SACK sent, using a timer
572 based on 5% of SRTT, capped by this sysctl, in nano seconds.
573 The default is 1ms, based on TSO autosizing period.
574
575 Default : 1,000,000 ns (1 ms)
576
577 tcp_comp_sack_nr - INTEGER
578 Max number of SACK that can be compressed.
579 Using 0 disables SACK compression.
580
581 Default : 44
582
583 tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
584 If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
585 window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at
586 the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not
587 be timed out after an idle period.
588 Default: 1
589
590 tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
591 Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
592 Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
593 Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
594 Default: FALSE
595
596 tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
597 Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
598 be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
599 is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission
600 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
601 for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
602
603 tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
604 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
605 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
606 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
607 Default: 1
608
609 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
610 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
611 against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
612 in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
613 because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
614 another parameters until this warning disappear.
615 See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
616
617 syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
618 to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
619 of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
620 but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
621 SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
622 is seriously misconfigured.
623
624 If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
625 network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
626 unconditionally generation of syncookies.
627
628 tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
629 Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening
630 SYN packet.
631
632 The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client
633 then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag,
634 rather than connect() to send data in SYN.
635
636 The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then
637 either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or
638 enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with
639 the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog.
640
641 The values (bitmap) are
642 0x1: (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
643 0x2: (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in
644 a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the
645 application before 3-way handshake finishes.
646 0x4: (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie
647 availability and without a cookie option.
648 0x200: (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
649 0x400: (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by
650 default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option.
651
652 Default: 0x1
653
654 Note that that additional client or server features are only
655 effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively.
656
657 tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER
658 Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets
659 when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens.
660 This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues
661 get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to
662 initial value when the blackhole issue goes away.
663 0 to disable the blackhole detection.
664 By default, it is set to 1hr.
665
666 tcp_fastopen_key - list of comma separated 32-digit hexadecimal INTEGERs
667 The list consists of a primary key and an optional backup key. The
668 primary key is used for both creating and validating cookies, while the
669 optional backup key is only used for validating cookies. The purpose of
670 the backup key is to maximize TFO validation when keys are rotated.
671
672 A randomly chosen primary key may be configured by the kernel if
673 the tcp_fastopen sysctl is set to 0x400 (see above), or if the
674 TCP_FASTOPEN setsockopt() optname is set and a key has not been
675 previously configured via sysctl. If keys are configured via
676 setsockopt() by using the TCP_FASTOPEN_KEY optname, then those
677 per-socket keys will be used instead of any keys that are specified via
678 sysctl.
679
680 A key is specified as 4 8-digit hexadecimal integers which are separated
681 by a '-' as: xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx. Leading zeros may be
682 omitted. A primary and a backup key may be specified by separating them
683 by a comma. If only one key is specified, it becomes the primary key and
684 any previously configured backup keys are removed.
685
686 tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
687 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
688 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value
689 is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission
690 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
691 for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
692
693 tcp_timestamps - INTEGER
694 Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
695 0: Disabled.
696 1: Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323 and use random offset for
697 each connection rather than only using the current time.
698 2: Like 1, but without random offsets.
699 Default: 1
700
701 tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER
702 Minimal number of segments per TSO frame.
703 Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames,
704 depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets.
705 For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big
706 TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets
707 if available window is too small.
708 Default: 2
709
710 tcp_pacing_ss_ratio - INTEGER
711 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
712 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
713 If TCP is in slow start, tcp_pacing_ss_ratio is applied
714 to let TCP probe for bigger speeds, assuming cwnd can be
715 doubled every other RTT.
716 Default: 200
717
718 tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER
719 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
720 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
721 If TCP is in congestion avoidance phase, tcp_pacing_ca_ratio
722 is applied to conservatively probe for bigger throughput.
723 Default: 120
724
725 tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
726 This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
727 can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
728 The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
729 building larger TSO frames.
730 Default: 3
731
732 tcp_tw_reuse - INTEGER
733 Enable reuse of TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
734 safe from protocol viewpoint.
735 0 - disable
736 1 - global enable
737 2 - enable for loopback traffic only
738 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
739 experts.
740 Default: 2
741
742 tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
743 Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
744
745 tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
746 min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
747 Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
748 Default: 4K
749
750 default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets. This
751 value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
752 It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
753 Default: 16K
754
755 max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
756 send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
757 net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
758 automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
759 this value is ignored.
760 Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
761
762 tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER
763 A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue,
764 thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll()
765 reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per
766 socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will
767 also not add new buffers if the limit is hit.
768
769 This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for
770 sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change
771 to the global variable has immediate effect.
772
773 Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF)
774
775 tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
776 If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
777 remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
778 If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
779 not receive a window scaling option from them.
780 Default: 0
781
782 tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
783 Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
784 If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
785 determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
786 As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
787 timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
788 initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
789 non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
790 For more information on thin streams, see
791 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
792 Default: 0
793
794 tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER
795 Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket.
796 TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it
797 gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can
798 result in a large amount of packets queued on the local machine
799 (e.g.: qdiscs, CPU backlog, or device) hurting latency of other
800 flows, for typical pfifo_fast qdiscs. tcp_limit_output_bytes
801 limits the number of bytes on qdisc or device to reduce artificial
802 RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat.
803 Default: 1048576 (16 * 65536)
804
805 tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
806 Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
807 in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
808 Default: 100
809
810 tcp_rx_skb_cache - BOOLEAN
811 Controls a per TCP socket cache of one skb, that might help
812 performance of some workloads. This might be dangerous
813 on systems with a lot of TCP sockets, since it increases
814 memory usage.
815
816 Default: 0 (disabled)
817
818 UDP variables:
819
820 udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
821 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
822 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
823 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
824 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
825 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
826 Default: 0 (disabled)
827
828 udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
829 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
830
831 min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its
832 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds
833 this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage.
834
835 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
836
837 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
838
839 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
840
841 udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
842 Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
843 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
844 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
845 Default: 4K
846
847 udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
848 Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
849 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if
850 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
851 Default: 4K
852
853 RAW variables:
854
855 raw_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
856 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
857 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
858 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
859 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
860 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
861 Default: 1 (enabled)
862
863 CIPSOv4 Variables:
864
865 cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
866 If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
867 cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
868 miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
869 invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
870 off and the cache will always be "safe".
871 Default: 1
872
873 cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
874 The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
875 hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits
876 the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
877 more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of
878 entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
879 causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
880 Default: 10
881
882 cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
883 Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
884 the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
885 This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
886 categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
887 Default: 0
888
889 cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
890 If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
891 ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during
892 ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
893 where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
894 result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
895 with other implementations that require strict checking.
896 Default: 0
897
898 IP Variables:
899
900 ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
901 Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
902 choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
903 second the last local port number.
904 If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity.
905 (one even and one odd values)
906 The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively.
907
908 ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
909 Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
910 applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
911 assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
912 number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
913
914 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
915 list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
916 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
917 ports and update the current list with the one given in the
918 input.
919
920 Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
921 settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
922 when determining which ports are available for automatic port
923 assignments.
924
925 You can reserve ports which are not in the current
926 ip_local_port_range, e.g.:
927
928 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
929 32000 60999
930 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
931 8080,9148
932
933 although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
934 if later the port range is changed to a value that will
935 include the reserved ports.
936
937 Default: Empty
938
939 ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER
940 This is a per-namespace sysctl. It defines the first
941 unprivileged port in the network namespace. Privileged ports
942 require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them.
943 To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0. It may not
944 overlap with the ip_local_reserved_ports range.
945
946 Default: 1024
947
948 ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
949 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
950 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
951 Default: 0
952
953 ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
954 If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
955 If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
956 message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
957 occurs.
958 Default: 0
959
960 ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN
961 Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for
962 certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this
963 for established TCP and connected UDP sockets.
964
965 It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that
966 reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it.
967 Default: 1
968
969 tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
970 Enable early demux for established TCP sockets.
971 Default: 1
972
973 udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
974 Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if
975 your system could experience more unconnected load.
976 Default: 1
977
978 icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
979 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
980 requests sent to it.
981 Default: 0
982
983 icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
984 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
985 TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
986 Default: 1
987
988 icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
989 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
990 icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
991 0 to disable any limiting,
992 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
993 Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number
994 of ICMP packets sent on all targets.
995 Default: 1000
996
997 icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER
998 Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host.
999 Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are
1000 controlled by this limit.
1001 Default: 1000
1002
1003 icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER
1004 icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second,
1005 while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets.
1006 Default: 50
1007
1008 icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
1009 Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
1010 Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
1011 Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168)
1012
1013 Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
1014 0 Echo Reply
1015 3 Destination Unreachable *
1016 4 Source Quench *
1017 5 Redirect
1018 8 Echo Request
1019 B Time Exceeded *
1020 C Parameter Problem *
1021 D Timestamp Request
1022 E Timestamp Reply
1023 F Info Request
1024 G Info Reply
1025 H Address Mask Request
1026 I Address Mask Reply
1027
1028 * These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
1029
1030 icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
1031 Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
1032 frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
1033 If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
1034 will avoid log file clutter.
1035 Default: 1
1036
1037 icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
1038
1039 If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
1040 the exiting interface.
1041
1042 If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
1043 the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
1044 This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
1045 a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
1046 much easier.
1047
1048 Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
1049 then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
1050 has one will be used regardless of this setting.
1051
1052 Default: 0
1053
1054 igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
1055 Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
1056 Default: 20
1057
1058 Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
1059 report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
1060 datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
1061 intend to).
1062
1063 The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group
1064 report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
1065
1066 M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
1067
1068 Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
1069 So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
1070
1071 (65536-24) / 12 = 5459
1072
1073 The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
1074 this number may be lower.
1075
1076 igmp_max_msf - INTEGER
1077 Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a
1078 multicast group.
1079 Default: 10
1080
1081 igmp_qrv - INTEGER
1082 Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1).
1083 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1)
1084 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1085
1086 force_igmp_version - INTEGER
1087 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback
1088 allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier
1089 Present timer expires.
1090 1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if
1091 receive IGMPv2/v3 query.
1092 2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive
1093 IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query.
1094 3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0.
1095
1096 Note: this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376
1097 Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could
1098 ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make
1099 this value as default 0 is recommended.
1100
1101 conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where
1102 "interface" is the name of your network interface)
1103
1104 conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
1105
1106 log_martians - BOOLEAN
1107 Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
1108 log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1109 conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
1110 it will be disabled otherwise
1111
1112 accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1113 Accept ICMP redirect messages.
1114 accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
1115 - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
1116 forwarding for the interface is enabled
1117 or
1118 - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
1119 case forwarding for the interface is disabled
1120 accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
1121 default TRUE (host)
1122 FALSE (router)
1123
1124 forwarding - BOOLEAN
1125 Enable IP forwarding on this interface. This controls whether packets
1126 received _on_ this interface can be forwarded.
1127
1128 mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
1129 Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
1130 and a multicast routing daemon is required.
1131 conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
1132 routing for the interface
1133
1134 medium_id - INTEGER
1135 Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
1136 are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
1137 the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
1138 The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
1139 to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
1140
1141 Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
1142 the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
1143 two devices attached to different media.
1144
1145 proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
1146 Do proxy arp.
1147 proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1148 conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
1149 it will be disabled otherwise
1150
1151 proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
1152 Private VLAN proxy arp.
1153 Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
1154 (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
1155
1156 This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
1157 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
1158 communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
1159 the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
1160 to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
1161 router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
1162 proxy_arp.
1163
1164 This technology is known by different names:
1165 In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
1166 Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
1167 Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
1168 Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
1169
1170 shared_media - BOOLEAN
1171 Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
1172 Overrides secure_redirects.
1173 shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1174 conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
1175 it will be disabled otherwise
1176 default TRUE
1177
1178 secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
1179 Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the
1180 interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect
1181 rules still apply.
1182 Overridden by shared_media.
1183 secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1184 conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
1185 it will be disabled otherwise
1186 default TRUE
1187
1188 send_redirects - BOOLEAN
1189 Send redirects, if router.
1190 send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1191 conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
1192 it will be disabled otherwise
1193 Default: TRUE
1194
1195 bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
1196 Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
1197 not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
1198 BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
1199 conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
1200 for the interface
1201 default FALSE
1202 Not Implemented Yet.
1203
1204 accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
1205 Accept packets with SRR option.
1206 conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
1207 with SRR option on the interface
1208 default TRUE (router)
1209 FALSE (host)
1210
1211 accept_local - BOOLEAN
1212 Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
1213 suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
1214 local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
1215 default FALSE
1216
1217 route_localnet - BOOLEAN
1218 Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination
1219 while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes.
1220 default FALSE
1221
1222 rp_filter - INTEGER
1223 0 - No source validation.
1224 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
1225 Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
1226 is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
1227 By default failed packets are discarded.
1228 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
1229 Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
1230 and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
1231 the packet check will fail.
1232
1233 Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
1234 to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
1235 or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
1236
1237 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
1238 when doing source validation on the {interface}.
1239
1240 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
1241 in startup scripts.
1242
1243 arp_filter - BOOLEAN
1244 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
1245 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
1246 based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
1247 the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
1248 based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
1249 of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
1250
1251 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
1252 from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
1253 sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
1254 IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
1255 particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
1256 balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
1257
1258 arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1259 conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
1260 it will be disabled otherwise
1261
1262 arp_announce - INTEGER
1263 Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
1264 source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
1265 interface:
1266 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
1267 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
1268 subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
1269 hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
1270 address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
1271 configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
1272 request we will check all our subnets that include the
1273 target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
1274 such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
1275 address according to the rules for level 2.
1276 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
1277 In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
1278 and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
1279 the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
1280 for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
1281 interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
1282 local address is found we select the first local address
1283 we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
1284 with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
1285 even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
1286
1287 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
1288
1289 Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
1290 receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
1291 the level announces more valid sender's information.
1292
1293 arp_ignore - INTEGER
1294 Define different modes for sending replies in response to
1295 received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
1296 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
1297 on any interface
1298 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1299 configured on the incoming interface
1300 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1301 configured on the incoming interface and both with the
1302 sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
1303 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
1304 only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
1305 4-7 - reserved
1306 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
1307
1308 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
1309 when ARP request is received on the {interface}
1310
1311 arp_notify - BOOLEAN
1312 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1313 0 - (default): do nothing
1314 1 - Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
1315 or hardware address changes.
1316
1317 arp_accept - BOOLEAN
1318 Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not
1319 already present in the ARP table:
1320 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
1321 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
1322
1323 Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
1324 ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
1325
1326 If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
1327 gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
1328 if this setting is on or off.
1329
1330 mcast_solicit - INTEGER
1331 The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state,
1332 when the associated hardware address is unknown. Defaults
1333 to 3.
1334
1335 ucast_solicit - INTEGER
1336 The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when
1337 the hardware address is being reconfirmed. Defaults to 3.
1338
1339 app_solicit - INTEGER
1340 The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
1341 via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
1342 mcast_resolicit). Defaults to 0.
1343
1344 mcast_resolicit - INTEGER
1345 The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and
1346 app probes in PROBE state. Defaults to 0.
1347
1348 disable_policy - BOOLEAN
1349 Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
1350
1351 disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
1352 Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
1353
1354 igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1355 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1356 IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place.
1357 Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1358
1359 igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1360 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1361 IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place.
1362 Default: 1000 (1 seconds)
1363
1364 promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN
1365 When a primary IP address is removed from this interface
1366 promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of
1367 removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses.
1368
1369 drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1370 Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer
1371 multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1372 This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC
1373 1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons.
1374 Default: off (0)
1375
1376 drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN
1377 Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known
1378 good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1379 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1380 Default: off (0)
1381
1382
1383 tag - INTEGER
1384 Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
1385 Default value is 0.
1386
1387 xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1388 (Obsolete since linux-4.14)
1389 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4
1390 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will
1391 refuse new allocations.
1392
1393 igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN
1394 Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the
1395 224.0.0.X range.
1396 Default TRUE
1397
1398 Alexey Kuznetsov.
1399 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
1400
1401 Updated by:
1402 Andi Kleen
1403 ak@muc.de
1404 Nicolas Delon
1405 delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
1406
1407
1408
1409
1410 /proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
1411
1412 IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
1413 apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
1414
1415 bindv6only - BOOLEAN
1416 Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
1417 which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
1418 only.
1419 TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
1420 FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
1421
1422 Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
1423
1424 flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN
1425 Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label.
1426 You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the
1427 flow label manager.
1428 TRUE: enabled
1429 FALSE: disabled
1430 Default: TRUE
1431
1432 auto_flowlabels - INTEGER
1433 Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the
1434 packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to
1435 identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath
1436 Routing (see RFC 6438).
1437 0: automatic flow labels are completely disabled
1438 1: automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be
1439 disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL
1440 socket option
1441 2: automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a
1442 per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option
1443 3: automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot
1444 be disabled by the socket option
1445 Default: 1
1446
1447 flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN
1448 Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is
1449 reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF
1450 is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437.
1451 TRUE: enabled
1452 FALSE: disabled
1453 Default: true
1454
1455 flowlabel_reflect - INTEGER
1456 Control flow label reflection. Needed for Path MTU
1457 Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast
1458 environments. See RFC 7690 and:
1459 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01
1460
1461 This is a bitmask.
1462 1: enabled for established flows
1463
1464 Note that this prevents automatic flowlabel changes, as done
1465 in "tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission"
1466 and "tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit"
1467
1468 2: enabled for TCP RESET packets (no active listener)
1469 If set, a RST packet sent in response to a SYN packet on a closed
1470 port will reflect the incoming flow label.
1471
1472 4: enabled for ICMPv6 echo reply messages.
1473
1474 Default: 0
1475
1476 fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
1477 Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes.
1478 Default: 0 (Layer 3)
1479 Possible values:
1480 0 - Layer 3 (source and destination addresses plus flow label)
1481 1 - Layer 4 (standard 5-tuple)
1482 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
1483
1484 anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN
1485 Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6
1486 echo reply
1487 TRUE: enabled
1488 FALSE: disabled
1489 Default: FALSE
1490
1491 idgen_delay - INTEGER
1492 Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry
1493 privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is
1494 detected.
1495 Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217)
1496
1497 idgen_retries - INTEGER
1498 Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy
1499 address if a DAD conflict is detected.
1500 Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217)
1501
1502 mld_qrv - INTEGER
1503 Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1).
1504 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1)
1505 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1506
1507 max_dst_opts_number - INTEGER
1508 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Destination
1509 options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1510 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1511 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1512 Default: 8
1513
1514 max_hbh_opts_number - INTEGER
1515 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Hop-by-Hop
1516 options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1517 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1518 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1519 Default: 8
1520
1521 max_dst_opts_length - INTEGER
1522 Maximum length allowed for a Destination options extension
1523 header.
1524 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1525
1526 max_hbh_length - INTEGER
1527 Maximum length allowed for a Hop-by-Hop options extension
1528 header.
1529 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1530
1531 skip_notify_on_dev_down - BOOLEAN
1532 Controls whether an RTM_DELROUTE message is generated for routes
1533 removed when a device is taken down or deleted. IPv4 does not
1534 generate this message; IPv6 does by default. Setting this sysctl
1535 to true skips the message, making IPv4 and IPv6 on par in relying
1536 on userspace caches to track link events and evict routes.
1537 Default: false (generate message)
1538
1539 IPv6 Fragmentation:
1540
1541 ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
1542 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
1543 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
1544 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
1545 is reached.
1546
1547 ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
1548 See ip6frag_high_thresh
1549
1550 ip6frag_time - INTEGER
1551 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
1552
1553 IPv6 Segment Routing:
1554
1555 seg6_flowlabel - INTEGER
1556 Controls the behaviour of computing the flowlabel of outer
1557 IPv6 header in case of SR T.encaps
1558
1559 -1 set flowlabel to zero.
1560 0 copy flowlabel from Inner packet in case of Inner IPv6
1561 (Set flowlabel to 0 in case IPv4/L2)
1562 1 Compute the flowlabel using seg6_make_flowlabel()
1563
1564 Default is 0.
1565
1566 conf/default/*:
1567 Change the interface-specific default settings.
1568
1569
1570 conf/all/*:
1571 Change all the interface-specific settings.
1572
1573 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
1574
1575 conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
1576 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
1577
1578 IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
1579 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
1580
1581 This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
1582 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details.
1583
1584 This referred to as global forwarding.
1585
1586 proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
1587 Do proxy ndp.
1588
1589 fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
1590 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not
1591 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies).
1592 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
1593 fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
1594 Default: 0
1595
1596 conf/interface/*:
1597 Change special settings per interface.
1598
1599 The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
1600 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
1601
1602 accept_ra - INTEGER
1603 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
1604
1605 It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
1606 Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
1607 accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
1608 transmitted.
1609
1610 Possible values are:
1611 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements.
1612 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
1613 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
1614 even if forwarding is enabled.
1615
1616 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1617 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1618
1619 accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
1620 Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
1621
1622 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1623 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1624
1625 accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN
1626 Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine
1627 if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted.
1628 Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended
1629 network loop.
1630
1631 Functional default:
1632 enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled
1633 on a specific interface.
1634 disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled
1635 on a specific interface.
1636
1637 accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER
1638 Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement.
1639
1640 Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this
1641 variable shall be ignored.
1642
1643 Default: 1
1644
1645 accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
1646 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
1647
1648 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1649 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1650
1651 accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER
1652 Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1653
1654 Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall
1655 be ignored.
1656
1657 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1658 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1659
1660 accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
1661 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1662
1663 Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall
1664 be ignored.
1665
1666 Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1667 -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1668
1669 accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
1670 Accept Router Preference in RA.
1671
1672 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1673 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1674
1675 accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
1676 Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
1677 disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
1678
1679 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1680 disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1681
1682 accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1683 Accept Redirects.
1684
1685 Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1686 disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1687
1688 accept_source_route - INTEGER
1689 Accept source routing (routing extension header).
1690
1691 >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
1692 < 0: Do not accept routing header.
1693
1694 Default: 0
1695
1696 autoconf - BOOLEAN
1697 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
1698 Advertisements.
1699
1700 Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
1701 disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
1702
1703 dad_transmits - INTEGER
1704 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
1705 Default: 1
1706
1707 forwarding - INTEGER
1708 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
1709
1710 Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
1711 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
1712
1713 Possible values are:
1714 0 Forwarding disabled
1715 1 Forwarding enabled
1716
1717 FALSE (0):
1718
1719 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means:
1720
1721 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1722 2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
1723 Solicitations.
1724 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
1725 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
1726 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
1727
1728 TRUE (1):
1729
1730 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
1731 This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1732
1733 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1734 2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
1735 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
1736 4. Redirects are ignored.
1737
1738 Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
1739 otherwise 1 (enabled).
1740
1741 hop_limit - INTEGER
1742 Default Hop Limit to set.
1743 Default: 64
1744
1745 mtu - INTEGER
1746 Default Maximum Transfer Unit
1747 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
1748
1749 ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
1750 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses,
1751 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
1752 Default: 0
1753
1754 router_probe_interval - INTEGER
1755 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
1756 in RFC4191.
1757
1758 Default: 60
1759
1760 router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
1761 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
1762 before sending Router Solicitations.
1763 Default: 1
1764
1765 router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
1766 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
1767 Default: 4
1768
1769 router_solicitations - INTEGER
1770 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
1771 routers are present.
1772 Default: 3
1773
1774 use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN
1775 When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations
1776 routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
1777 configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
1778
1779 Default: false
1780
1781 use_tempaddr - INTEGER
1782 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
1783 <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
1784 == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
1785 addresses over temporary addresses.
1786 > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
1787 addresses over public addresses.
1788 Default: 0 (for most devices)
1789 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
1790
1791 temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
1792 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1793 Default: 604800 (7 days)
1794
1795 temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
1796 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1797 Default: 86400 (1 day)
1798
1799 keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER
1800 Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static
1801 global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed.
1802 >0 : enabled
1803 0 : system default
1804 <0 : disabled
1805
1806 Default: 0 (addresses are removed)
1807
1808 max_desync_factor - INTEGER
1809 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
1810 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
1811 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
1812 value is in seconds.
1813 Default: 600
1814
1815 regen_max_retry - INTEGER
1816 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
1817 valid temporary addresses.
1818 Default: 5
1819
1820 max_addresses - INTEGER
1821 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting
1822 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this
1823 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
1824 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
1825 Default: 16
1826
1827 disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
1828 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
1829 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
1830 address.
1831 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
1832
1833 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
1834 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
1835 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
1836
1837 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
1838 it will dynamically delete all addresses and routes on the given
1839 interface. From now on it will not possible to add addresses/routes
1840 to the selected interface.
1841
1842 accept_dad - INTEGER
1843 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
1844 0: Disable DAD
1845 1: Enable DAD (default)
1846 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
1847 link-local address has been found.
1848
1849 DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according
1850 to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad.
1851
1852 force_tllao - BOOLEAN
1853 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
1854 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
1855 Default: FALSE
1856
1857 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
1858
1859 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
1860 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
1861 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
1862 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
1863 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
1864 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
1865 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
1866 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
1867 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
1868 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
1869
1870 ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN
1871 Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1872 0 - (default): do nothing
1873 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought
1874 up or hardware address changes.
1875
1876 ndisc_tclass - INTEGER
1877 The IPv6 Traffic Class to use by default when sending IPv6 Neighbor
1878 Discovery (Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor
1879 Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, Redirect) messages.
1880 These 8 bits can be interpreted as 6 high order bits holding the DSCP
1881 value and 2 low order bits representing ECN (which you probably want
1882 to leave cleared).
1883 0 - (default)
1884
1885 mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1886 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1887 MLDv1 report retransmit will take place.
1888 Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1889
1890 mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1891 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1892 MLDv2 report retransmit will take place.
1893 Default: 1000 (1 second)
1894
1895 force_mld_version - INTEGER
1896 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed
1897 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1
1898 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2
1899
1900 suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER
1901 Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation
1902 with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior:
1903 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1904 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets
1905
1906 optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN
1907 Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429).
1908 0: disabled (default)
1909 1: enabled
1910
1911 Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled
1912 if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1,
1913 it will be disabled otherwise.
1914
1915 use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
1916 If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during
1917 source address selection. Preferred addresses will still be chosen
1918 before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source
1919 address selection algorithm.
1920 0: disabled (default)
1921 1: enabled
1922
1923 This will be enabled if at least one of
1924 conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise.
1925
1926 stable_secret - IPv6 address
1927 This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6
1928 addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured
1929 ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will
1930 be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the
1931 addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the
1932 secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can
1933 overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused.
1934
1935 It is recommended to generate this secret during installation
1936 of a system and keep it stable after that.
1937
1938 By default the stable secret is unset.
1939
1940 addr_gen_mode - INTEGER
1941 Defines how link-local and autoconf addresses are generated.
1942
1943 0: generate address based on EUI64 (default)
1944 1: do no generate a link-local address, use EUI64 for addresses generated
1945 from autoconf
1946 2: generate stable privacy addresses, using the secret from
1947 stable_secret (RFC7217)
1948 3: generate stable privacy addresses, using a random secret if unset
1949
1950 drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1951 Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer
1952 multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1953
1954 By default this is turned off.
1955
1956 drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
1957 Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
1958 a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1959 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1960
1961 By default this is turned off.
1962
1963 enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN
1964 Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for
1965 duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal
1966 a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false
1967 detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send.
1968 The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of
1969 conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE.
1970 Default: TRUE
1971
1972 icmp/*:
1973 ratelimit - INTEGER
1974 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 messages.
1975 0 to disable any limiting,
1976 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1977 Default: 1000
1978
1979 ratemask - list of comma separated ranges
1980 For ICMPv6 message types matching the ranges in the ratemask, limit
1981 the sending of the message according to ratelimit parameter.
1982
1983 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
1984 list of ranges (e.g. "0-127,129" for ICMPv6 message type 0 to 127 and
1985 129). Writing to the file will clear all previous ranges of ICMPv6
1986 message types and update the current list with the input.
1987
1988 Refer to: https://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters/icmpv6-parameters.xhtml
1989 for numerical values of ICMPv6 message types, e.g. echo request is 128
1990 and echo reply is 129.
1991
1992 Default: 0-1,3-127 (rate limit ICMPv6 errors except Packet Too Big)
1993
1994 echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
1995 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
1996 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol.
1997 Default: 0
1998
1999 echo_ignore_multicast - BOOLEAN
2000 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2001 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol via multicast.
2002 Default: 0
2003
2004 echo_ignore_anycast - BOOLEAN
2005 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2006 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol destined to anycast address.
2007 Default: 0
2008
2009 xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER
2010 (Obsolete since linux-4.14)
2011 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6
2012 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will
2013 refuse new allocations.
2014
2015
2016 IPv6 Update by:
2017 Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
2018 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2019
2020
2021 /proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
2022
2023 bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
2024 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
2025 0 : disable this.
2026 Default: 1
2027
2028 bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
2029 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
2030 0 : disable this.
2031 Default: 1
2032
2033 bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
2034 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
2035 0 : disable this.
2036 Default: 1
2037
2038 bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
2039 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
2040 0 : disable this.
2041 Default: 0
2042
2043 bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
2044 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
2045 0 : disable this.
2046 Default: 0
2047
2048 bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
2049 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
2050 interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the vlan.
2051 This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the REDIRECT
2052 target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces. When no matching
2053 vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input device is
2054 set to the bridge interface.
2055 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
2056 Default: 0
2057
2058 proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
2059
2060 addip_enable - BOOLEAN
2061 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2062 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides
2063 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
2064 associations.
2065
2066 1: Enable extension.
2067
2068 0: Disable extension.
2069
2070 Default: 0
2071
2072 pf_enable - INTEGER
2073 Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value
2074 of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of
2075 both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state.
2076 Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace
2077 application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of
2078 pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans
2079 or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is
2080 enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable
2081 and disable pf state. See:
2082 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for
2083 details.
2084
2085 1: Enable pf.
2086
2087 0: Disable pf.
2088
2089 Default: 1
2090
2091 addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
2092 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
2093 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
2094 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
2095 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older
2096 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
2097 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability,
2098 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
2099 authentication requirement.
2100
2101 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This
2102 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
2103 with older implementations.
2104
2105 0: Enforce the authentication requirement
2106
2107 Default: 0
2108
2109 auth_enable - BOOLEAN
2110 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension
2111 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
2112 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2113 (ADD-IP) extension.
2114
2115 1: Enable this extension.
2116 0: Disable this extension.
2117
2118 Default: 0
2119
2120 prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
2121 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
2122 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
2123
2124 1: Enable extension
2125 0: Disable
2126
2127 Default: 1
2128
2129 max_burst - INTEGER
2130 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It
2131 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
2132
2133 Default: 4
2134
2135 association_max_retrans - INTEGER
2136 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
2137 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value
2138 is exceeded, the association is terminated.
2139
2140 Default: 10
2141
2142 max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
2143 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
2144 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
2145 unreachable and terminating.
2146
2147 Default: 8
2148
2149 path_max_retrans - INTEGER
2150 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
2151 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
2152 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
2153 association is multihomed.
2154
2155 Default: 5
2156
2157 pf_retrans - INTEGER
2158 The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path
2159 before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one
2160 exist). Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that
2161 passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used. Its only
2162 deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack. This
2163 setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without
2164 having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See:
2165 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt
2166 for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans
2167 disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can
2168 be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to
2169 disable pf state.
2170
2171 Default: 0
2172
2173 rto_initial - INTEGER
2174 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
2175 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval
2176 for retransmissions.
2177
2178 Default: 3000
2179
2180 rto_max - INTEGER
2181 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
2182 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
2183
2184 Default: 60000
2185
2186 rto_min - INTEGER
2187 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This
2188 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
2189
2190 Default: 1000
2191
2192 hb_interval - INTEGER
2193 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks
2194 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
2195 a given path between 2 associations.
2196
2197 Default: 30000
2198
2199 sack_timeout - INTEGER
2200 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
2201 to send a SACK.
2202
2203 Default: 200
2204
2205 valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
2206 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie
2207 is used during association establishment.
2208
2209 Default: 60000
2210
2211 cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
2212 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
2213 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
2214
2215 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
2216 0: Disable
2217
2218 Default: 1
2219
2220 cookie_hmac_alg - STRING
2221 Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by
2222 a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk.
2223 Valid values are:
2224 * md5
2225 * sha1
2226 * none
2227 Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the
2228 configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and
2229 CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1).
2230
2231 Default: Dependent on configuration. MD5 if available, else SHA1 if
2232 available, else none.
2233
2234 rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
2235 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
2236 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
2237 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is
2238 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
2239 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
2240 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this,
2241 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
2242 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described
2243 blocking.
2244
2245 1: rcvbuf space is per association
2246 0: rcvbuf space is per socket
2247
2248 Default: 0
2249
2250 sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
2251 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
2252
2253 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
2254 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
2255
2256 Default: 0
2257
2258 sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
2259 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2260
2261 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
2262 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
2263 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
2264
2265 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
2266
2267 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2268
2269 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
2270
2271 sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2272 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2273 ignored.
2274
2275 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
2276 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2277 under moderate memory pressure.
2278
2279 Default: 4K
2280
2281 sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2282 Currently this tunable has no effect.
2283
2284 addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
2285 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
2286
2287 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping
2288 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping
2289 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
2290 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
2291
2292 Default: 1
2293
2294
2295 /proc/sys/net/core/*
2296 Please see: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries.
2297
2298
2299 /proc/sys/net/unix/*
2300 max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
2301 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
2302
2303 Default: 10
2304