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0001 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
0002 
0003 =========
0004 IP Sysctl
0005 =========
0006 
0007 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables
0008 ==============================
0009 
0010 ip_forward - BOOLEAN
0011         - 0 - disabled (default)
0012         - not 0 - enabled
0013 
0014         Forward Packets between interfaces.
0015 
0016         This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
0017         parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
0018         for routers)
0019 
0020 ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
0021         Default value of TTL field (Time To Live) for outgoing (but not
0022         forwarded) IP packets. Should be between 1 and 255 inclusive.
0023         Default: 64 (as recommended by RFC1700)
0024 
0025 ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER
0026         Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled in mode 1 and a
0027         fragmentation-required ICMP is received, the PMTU to this
0028         destination will be set to the smallest of the old MTU to
0029         this destination and min_pmtu (see below). You will need
0030         to raise min_pmtu to the smallest interface MTU on your system
0031         manually if you want to avoid locally generated fragments.
0032 
0033         In mode 2 incoming Path MTU Discovery messages will be
0034         discarded. Outgoing frames are handled the same as in mode 1,
0035         implicitly setting IP_PMTUDISC_DONT on every created socket.
0036 
0037         Mode 3 is a hardened pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only
0038         accept fragmentation-needed errors if the underlying protocol
0039         can verify them besides a plain socket lookup. Current
0040         protocols for which pmtu events will be honored are TCP, SCTP
0041         and DCCP as they verify e.g. the sequence number or the
0042         association. This mode should not be enabled globally but is
0043         only intended to secure e.g. name servers in namespaces where
0044         TCP path mtu must still work but path MTU information of other
0045         protocols should be discarded. If enabled globally this mode
0046         could break other protocols.
0047 
0048         Possible values: 0-3
0049 
0050         Default: FALSE
0051 
0052 min_pmtu - INTEGER
0053         default 552 - minimum Path MTU. Unless this is changed mannually,
0054         each cached pmtu will never be lower than this setting.
0055 
0056 ip_forward_use_pmtu - BOOLEAN
0057         By default we don't trust protocol path MTUs while forwarding
0058         because they could be easily forged and can lead to unwanted
0059         fragmentation by the router.
0060         You only need to enable this if you have user-space software
0061         which tries to discover path mtus by itself and depends on the
0062         kernel honoring this information. This is normally not the
0063         case.
0064 
0065         Default: 0 (disabled)
0066 
0067         Possible values:
0068 
0069         - 0 - disabled
0070         - 1 - enabled
0071 
0072 fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
0073         Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv4 reply packets that are not
0074         associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMP echo replies).
0075         If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
0076         fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
0077 
0078         Default: 0
0079 
0080 fib_multipath_use_neigh - BOOLEAN
0081         Use status of existing neighbor entry when determining nexthop for
0082         multipath routes. If disabled, neighbor information is not used and
0083         packets could be directed to a failed nexthop. Only valid for kernels
0084         built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled.
0085 
0086         Default: 0 (disabled)
0087 
0088         Possible values:
0089 
0090         - 0 - disabled
0091         - 1 - enabled
0092 
0093 fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
0094         Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes. Only valid
0095         for kernels built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled.
0096 
0097         Default: 0 (Layer 3)
0098 
0099         Possible values:
0100 
0101         - 0 - Layer 3
0102         - 1 - Layer 4
0103         - 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
0104         - 3 - Custom multipath hash. Fields used for multipath hash calculation
0105           are determined by fib_multipath_hash_fields sysctl
0106 
0107 fib_multipath_hash_fields - UNSIGNED INTEGER
0108         When fib_multipath_hash_policy is set to 3 (custom multipath hash), the
0109         fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by this
0110         sysctl.
0111 
0112         This value is a bitmask which enables various fields for multipath hash
0113         calculation.
0114 
0115         Possible fields are:
0116 
0117         ====== ============================
0118         0x0001 Source IP address
0119         0x0002 Destination IP address
0120         0x0004 IP protocol
0121         0x0008 Unused (Flow Label)
0122         0x0010 Source port
0123         0x0020 Destination port
0124         0x0040 Inner source IP address
0125         0x0080 Inner destination IP address
0126         0x0100 Inner IP protocol
0127         0x0200 Inner Flow Label
0128         0x0400 Inner source port
0129         0x0800 Inner destination port
0130         ====== ============================
0131 
0132         Default: 0x0007 (source IP, destination IP and IP protocol)
0133 
0134 fib_sync_mem - UNSIGNED INTEGER
0135         Amount of dirty memory from fib entries that can be backlogged before
0136         synchronize_rcu is forced.
0137 
0138         Default: 512kB   Minimum: 64kB   Maximum: 64MB
0139 
0140 ip_forward_update_priority - INTEGER
0141         Whether to update SKB priority from "TOS" field in IPv4 header after it
0142         is forwarded. The new SKB priority is mapped from TOS field value
0143         according to an rt_tos2priority table (see e.g. man tc-prio).
0144 
0145         Default: 1 (Update priority.)
0146 
0147         Possible values:
0148 
0149         - 0 - Do not update priority.
0150         - 1 - Update priority.
0151 
0152 route/max_size - INTEGER
0153         Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel.  Increase
0154         this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
0155 
0156         From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
0157         as route cache is no longer used.
0158 
0159 neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
0160         Minimum number of entries to keep.  Garbage collector will not
0161         purge entries if there are fewer than this number.
0162 
0163         Default: 128
0164 
0165 neigh/default/gc_thresh2 - INTEGER
0166         Threshold when garbage collector becomes more aggressive about
0167         purging entries. Entries older than 5 seconds will be cleared
0168         when over this number.
0169 
0170         Default: 512
0171 
0172 neigh/default/gc_thresh3 - INTEGER
0173         Maximum number of non-PERMANENT neighbor entries allowed.  Increase
0174         this when using large numbers of interfaces and when communicating
0175         with large numbers of directly-connected peers.
0176 
0177         Default: 1024
0178 
0179 neigh/default/unres_qlen_bytes - INTEGER
0180         The maximum number of bytes which may be used by packets
0181         queued for each unresolved address by other network layers.
0182         (added in linux 3.3)
0183 
0184         Setting negative value is meaningless and will return error.
0185 
0186         Default: SK_WMEM_MAX, (same as net.core.wmem_default).
0187 
0188                 Exact value depends on architecture and kernel options,
0189                 but should be enough to allow queuing 256 packets
0190                 of medium size.
0191 
0192 neigh/default/unres_qlen - INTEGER
0193         The maximum number of packets which may be queued for each
0194         unresolved address by other network layers.
0195 
0196         (deprecated in linux 3.3) : use unres_qlen_bytes instead.
0197 
0198         Prior to linux 3.3, the default value is 3 which may cause
0199         unexpected packet loss. The current default value is calculated
0200         according to default value of unres_qlen_bytes and true size of
0201         packet.
0202 
0203         Default: 101
0204 
0205 neigh/default/interval_probe_time_ms - INTEGER
0206         The probe interval for neighbor entries with NTF_MANAGED flag,
0207         the min value is 1.
0208 
0209         Default: 5000
0210 
0211 mtu_expires - INTEGER
0212         Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
0213 
0214 min_adv_mss - INTEGER
0215         The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
0216         never be lower than this setting.
0217 
0218 fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER
0219         Whether to emit RTM_NEWROUTE notifications whenever RTM_F_OFFLOAD/
0220         RTM_F_TRAP/RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flags are changed.
0221 
0222         After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an
0223         acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel,
0224         but not necessarily in hardware.
0225         It is also possible for a route already installed in hardware to change
0226         its action and therefore its flags. For example, a host route that is
0227         trapping packets can be "promoted" to perform decapsulation following
0228         the installation of an IPinIP/VXLAN tunnel.
0229         The notifications will indicate to user-space the state of the route.
0230 
0231         Default: 0 (Do not emit notifications.)
0232 
0233         Possible values:
0234 
0235         - 0 - Do not emit notifications.
0236         - 1 - Emit notifications.
0237         - 2 - Emit notifications only for RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag change.
0238 
0239 IP Fragmentation:
0240 
0241 ipfrag_high_thresh - LONG INTEGER
0242         Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments.
0243 
0244 ipfrag_low_thresh - LONG INTEGER
0245         (Obsolete since linux-4.17)
0246         Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments before the kernel
0247         begins to remove incomplete fragment queues to free up resources.
0248         The kernel still accepts new fragments for defragmentation.
0249 
0250 ipfrag_time - INTEGER
0251         Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
0252 
0253 ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
0254         ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
0255         maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
0256         common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
0257         not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
0258         IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
0259         probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
0260         have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
0261         is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
0262         ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
0263         address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
0264         address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
0265         lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
0266         started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
0267 
0268         Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
0269         result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
0270         reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
0271         performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
0272         likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
0273         from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
0274         Default: 64
0275 
0276 bc_forwarding - INTEGER
0277         bc_forwarding enables the feature described in rfc1812#section-5.3.5.2
0278         and rfc2644. It allows the router to forward directed broadcast.
0279         To enable this feature, the 'all' entry and the input interface entry
0280         should be set to 1.
0281         Default: 0
0282 
0283 INET peer storage
0284 =================
0285 
0286 inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
0287         The approximate size of the storage.  Starting from this threshold
0288         entries will be thrown aggressively.  This threshold also determines
0289         entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
0290         passes.  More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
0291 
0292 inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
0293         Minimum time-to-live of entries.  Should be enough to cover fragment
0294         time-to-live on the reassembling side.  This minimum time-to-live  is
0295         guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
0296         Measured in seconds.
0297 
0298 inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
0299         Maximum time-to-live of entries.  Unused entries will expire after
0300         this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
0301         when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
0302         Measured in seconds.
0303 
0304 TCP variables
0305 =============
0306 
0307 somaxconn - INTEGER
0308         Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
0309         Defaults to 4096. (Was 128 before linux-5.4)
0310         See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning for TCP sockets.
0311 
0312 tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
0313         If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
0314         reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
0315         occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
0316         option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
0317         cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
0318         option can harm clients of your server.
0319 
0320 tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
0321         Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
0322         (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
0323         if it is <= 0.
0324 
0325         Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
0326 
0327         Default: 1
0328 
0329 tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
0330         Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
0331         processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
0332         tcp_available_congestion_control.
0333 
0334         Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
0335 
0336 tcp_app_win - INTEGER
0337         Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
0338         buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
0339 
0340         Default: 31
0341 
0342 tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN
0343         Enable TCP auto corking :
0344         When applications do consecutive small write()/sendmsg() system calls,
0345         we try to coalesce these small writes as much as possible, to lower
0346         total amount of sent packets. This is done if at least one prior
0347         packet for the flow is waiting in Qdisc queues or device transmit
0348         queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior
0349         when they know how/when to uncork their sockets.
0350 
0351         Default : 1
0352 
0353 tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
0354         Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
0355         More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
0356         but not loaded.
0357 
0358 tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
0359         The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
0360         Path MTU discovery (MTU probing).  If MTU probing is enabled,
0361         this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
0362 
0363 tcp_mtu_probe_floor - INTEGER
0364         If MTU probing is enabled this caps the minimum MSS used for search_low
0365         for the connection.
0366 
0367         Default : 48
0368 
0369 tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER
0370         TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option,
0371         as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691.
0372 
0373         If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss,
0374         it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss.
0375 
0376         Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
0377 
0378 tcp_congestion_control - STRING
0379         Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
0380         connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
0381         additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
0382         Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
0383         For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice
0384         is inherited.
0385 
0386         [see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
0387 
0388 tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
0389         Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
0390 
0391 tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER
0392         Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail
0393         losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that
0394         TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below)
0395 
0396         Possible values:
0397 
0398                 - 0 disables TLP
0399                 - 3 or 4 enables TLP
0400 
0401         Default: 3
0402 
0403 tcp_ecn - INTEGER
0404         Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by TCP.
0405         ECN is used only when both ends of the TCP connection indicate
0406         support for it.  This feature is useful in avoiding losses due
0407         to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal
0408         congestion before having to drop packets.
0409 
0410         Possible values are:
0411 
0412                 =  =====================================================
0413                 0  Disable ECN.  Neither initiate nor accept ECN.
0414                 1  Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections and
0415                    also request ECN on outgoing connection attempts.
0416                 2  Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections
0417                    but do not request ECN on outgoing connections.
0418                 =  =====================================================
0419 
0420         Default: 2
0421 
0422 tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN
0423         If the kernel detects that ECN connection misbehaves, enable fall
0424         back to non-ECN. Currently, this knob implements the fallback
0425         from RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1., but we reserve that in future,
0426         additional detection mechanisms could be implemented under this
0427         knob. The value is not used, if tcp_ecn or per route (or congestion
0428         control) ECN settings are disabled.
0429 
0430         Default: 1 (fallback enabled)
0431 
0432 tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
0433         This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
0434 
0435 tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
0436         The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any
0437         application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state
0438         before it is aborted at the local end.  While a perfectly
0439         valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an
0440         orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait
0441         forever for the remote to close its end of the connection.
0442 
0443         Cf. tcp_max_orphans
0444 
0445         Default: 60 seconds
0446 
0447 tcp_frto - INTEGER
0448         Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682.
0449         F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
0450         timeouts.  It is particularly beneficial in networks where the
0451         RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only
0452         modification. It does not require any support from the peer.
0453 
0454         By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO.
0455 
0456 tcp_fwmark_accept - BOOLEAN
0457         If set, incoming connections to listening sockets that do not have a
0458         socket mark will set the mark of the accepting socket to the fwmark of
0459         the incoming SYN packet. This will cause all packets on that connection
0460         (starting from the first SYNACK) to be sent with that fwmark. The
0461         listening socket's mark is unchanged. Listening sockets that already
0462         have a fwmark set via setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_MARK, ...) are
0463         unaffected.
0464 
0465         Default: 0
0466 
0467 tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER
0468         Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments
0469         in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing
0470         connection but that are invalid due to any of these reasons:
0471 
0472           (a) out-of-window sequence number,
0473           (b) out-of-window acknowledgment number, or
0474           (c) PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) check failure
0475 
0476         This can help mitigate simple "ack loop" DoS attacks, wherein
0477         a buggy or malicious middlebox or man-in-the-middle can
0478         rewrite TCP header fields in manner that causes each endpoint
0479         to think that the other is sending invalid TCP segments, thus
0480         causing each side to send an unterminating stream of duplicate
0481         acknowledgments for invalid segments.
0482 
0483         Using 0 disables rate-limiting of dupacks in response to
0484         invalid segments; otherwise this value specifies the minimal
0485         space between sending such dupacks, in milliseconds.
0486 
0487         Default: 500 (milliseconds).
0488 
0489 tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
0490         How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
0491         Default: 2hours.
0492 
0493 tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
0494         How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
0495         connection is broken. Default value: 9.
0496 
0497 tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
0498         How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
0499         tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
0500         after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
0501         will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
0502 
0503 tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
0504         Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index.
0505         Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work
0506         across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets
0507         derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in
0508         which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was
0509         compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
0510 
0511         Default: 0 (disabled)
0512 
0513 tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
0514         This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
0515 
0516 tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
0517         Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
0518         held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
0519         reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
0520         only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
0521         or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
0522         (probably, after increasing installed memory),
0523         if network conditions require more than default value,
0524         and tune network services to linger and kill such states
0525         more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
0526         up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
0527 
0528 tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
0529         Maximal number of remembered connection requests (SYN_RECV),
0530         which have not received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
0531 
0532         This is a per-listener limit.
0533 
0534         The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
0535         increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
0536 
0537         If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
0538 
0539         Remember to also check /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
0540         A SYN_RECV request socket consumes about 304 bytes of memory.
0541 
0542 tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
0543         Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
0544         If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
0545         and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
0546         simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
0547         but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
0548         if network conditions require more than default value.
0549 
0550 tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
0551         min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
0552         memory appetite.
0553 
0554         pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
0555         of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
0556         pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
0557         under "min".
0558 
0559         max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
0560 
0561         Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
0562         memory.
0563 
0564 tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER
0565         The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT.
0566         A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher)
0567         minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic
0568         engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT
0569         inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds.
0570 
0571         Possible values: 0 - 86400 (1 day)
0572 
0573         Default: 300
0574 
0575 tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
0576         If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
0577         automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
0578         match the size required by the path for full throughput.  Enabled by
0579         default.
0580 
0581 tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
0582         Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery.  Takes three
0583         values:
0584 
0585         - 0 - Disabled
0586         - 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
0587         - 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
0588 
0589 tcp_probe_interval - UNSIGNED INTEGER
0590         Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
0591         Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
0592         per RFC4821.
0593 
0594 tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
0595         Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
0596         will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
0597         is 8 bytes.
0598 
0599 tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
0600         By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
0601         when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
0602         near future can use these to set initial conditions.  Usually, this
0603         increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
0604         degradation.  If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
0605         connections.
0606 
0607 tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
0608         Controls whether TCP saves ssthresh metrics in the route cache.
0609 
0610         Default is 1, which disables ssthresh metrics.
0611 
0612 tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
0613         This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
0614         when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
0615         See tcp_retries2 for more details.
0616 
0617         The default value is 8.
0618 
0619         If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
0620         you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
0621         may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
0622 
0623 tcp_recovery - INTEGER
0624         This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery
0625         features.
0626 
0627         =========   =============================================================
0628         RACK: 0x1   enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost
0629                     retransmissions and tail drops. It also subsumes and disables
0630                     RFC6675 recovery for SACK connections.
0631 
0632         RACK: 0x2   makes RACK's reordering window static (min_rtt/4).
0633 
0634         RACK: 0x4   disables RACK's DUPACK threshold heuristic
0635         =========   =============================================================
0636 
0637         Default: 0x1
0638 
0639 tcp_reflect_tos - BOOLEAN
0640         For listening sockets, reuse the DSCP value of the initial SYN message
0641         for outgoing packets. This allows to have both directions of a TCP
0642         stream to use the same DSCP value, assuming DSCP remains unchanged for
0643         the lifetime of the connection.
0644 
0645         This options affects both IPv4 and IPv6.
0646 
0647         Default: 0 (disabled)
0648 
0649 tcp_reordering - INTEGER
0650         Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
0651         TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level
0652         between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering
0653 
0654         Default: 3
0655 
0656 tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER
0657         Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
0658         300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it
0659         if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode)
0660 
0661         Default: 300
0662 
0663 tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
0664         Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
0665         On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
0666         certain TCP stacks.
0667 
0668 tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
0669         This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
0670         something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
0671         and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
0672         See tcp_retries2 for more details.
0673 
0674         RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
0675         default.
0676 
0677 tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
0678         This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
0679         when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
0680         Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
0681         exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
0682         retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
0683 
0684         The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
0685         seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
0686         TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
0687         hypothetical timeout.
0688 
0689         RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
0690         which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
0691 
0692 tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
0693         If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
0694         we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
0695         assassination.
0696 
0697         Default: 0
0698 
0699 tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
0700         min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
0701         It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
0702         pressure.
0703 
0704         Default: 4K
0705 
0706         default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
0707         This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
0708         Default: 131072 bytes.
0709         This value results in initial window of 65535.
0710 
0711         max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
0712         selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
0713         net.core.rmem_max.  Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
0714         automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
0715         case this value is ignored.
0716         Default: between 131072 and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
0717 
0718 tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
0719         Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
0720 
0721 tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns - LONG INTEGER
0722         TCP tries to reduce number of SACK sent, using a timer
0723         based on 5% of SRTT, capped by this sysctl, in nano seconds.
0724         The default is 1ms, based on TSO autosizing period.
0725 
0726         Default : 1,000,000 ns (1 ms)
0727 
0728 tcp_comp_sack_slack_ns - LONG INTEGER
0729         This sysctl control the slack used when arming the
0730         timer used by SACK compression. This gives extra time
0731         for small RTT flows, and reduces system overhead by allowing
0732         opportunistic reduction of timer interrupts.
0733 
0734         Default : 100,000 ns (100 us)
0735 
0736 tcp_comp_sack_nr - INTEGER
0737         Max number of SACK that can be compressed.
0738         Using 0 disables SACK compression.
0739 
0740         Default : 44
0741 
0742 tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
0743         If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
0744         window after an idle period.  An idle period is defined at
0745         the current RTO.  If unset, the congestion window will not
0746         be timed out after an idle period.
0747 
0748         Default: 1
0749 
0750 tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
0751         Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
0752         Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
0753         Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
0754 
0755         Default: FALSE
0756 
0757 tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
0758         Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
0759         be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
0760         is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission
0761         with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
0762         for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
0763 
0764 tcp_syncookies - INTEGER
0765         Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
0766         Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
0767         overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
0768         Default: 1
0769 
0770         Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
0771         It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
0772         against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
0773         in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
0774         because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
0775         another parameters until this warning disappear.
0776         See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
0777 
0778         syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
0779         to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
0780         of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
0781         but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
0782         SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
0783         is seriously misconfigured.
0784 
0785         If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
0786         network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
0787         unconditionally generation of syncookies.
0788 
0789 tcp_migrate_req - BOOLEAN
0790         The incoming connection is tied to a specific listening socket when
0791         the initial SYN packet is received during the three-way handshake.
0792         When a listener is closed, in-flight request sockets during the
0793         handshake and established sockets in the accept queue are aborted.
0794 
0795         If the listener has SO_REUSEPORT enabled, other listeners on the
0796         same port should have been able to accept such connections. This
0797         option makes it possible to migrate such child sockets to another
0798         listener after close() or shutdown().
0799 
0800         The BPF_SK_REUSEPORT_SELECT_OR_MIGRATE type of eBPF program should
0801         usually be used to define the policy to pick an alive listener.
0802         Otherwise, the kernel will randomly pick an alive listener only if
0803         this option is enabled.
0804 
0805         Note that migration between listeners with different settings may
0806         crash applications. Let's say migration happens from listener A to
0807         B, and only B has TCP_SAVE_SYN enabled. B cannot read SYN data from
0808         the requests migrated from A. To avoid such a situation, cancel
0809         migration by returning SK_DROP in the type of eBPF program, or
0810         disable this option.
0811 
0812         Default: 0
0813 
0814 tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
0815         Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening
0816         SYN packet.
0817 
0818         The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client
0819         then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag,
0820         rather than connect() to send data in SYN.
0821 
0822         The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then
0823         either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or
0824         enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with
0825         the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog.
0826 
0827         The values (bitmap) are
0828 
0829         =====  ======== ======================================================
0830           0x1  (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
0831           0x2  (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in
0832                         a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the
0833                         application before 3-way handshake finishes.
0834           0x4  (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie
0835                         availability and without a cookie option.
0836         0x200  (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
0837         0x400  (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by
0838                         default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option.
0839         =====  ======== ======================================================
0840 
0841         Default: 0x1
0842 
0843         Note that additional client or server features are only
0844         effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively.
0845 
0846 tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER
0847         Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets
0848         when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens.
0849         This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues
0850         get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to
0851         initial value when the blackhole issue goes away.
0852         0 to disable the blackhole detection.
0853 
0854         By default, it is set to 0 (feature is disabled).
0855 
0856 tcp_fastopen_key - list of comma separated 32-digit hexadecimal INTEGERs
0857         The list consists of a primary key and an optional backup key. The
0858         primary key is used for both creating and validating cookies, while the
0859         optional backup key is only used for validating cookies. The purpose of
0860         the backup key is to maximize TFO validation when keys are rotated.
0861 
0862         A randomly chosen primary key may be configured by the kernel if
0863         the tcp_fastopen sysctl is set to 0x400 (see above), or if the
0864         TCP_FASTOPEN setsockopt() optname is set and a key has not been
0865         previously configured via sysctl. If keys are configured via
0866         setsockopt() by using the TCP_FASTOPEN_KEY optname, then those
0867         per-socket keys will be used instead of any keys that are specified via
0868         sysctl.
0869 
0870         A key is specified as 4 8-digit hexadecimal integers which are separated
0871         by a '-' as: xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx. Leading zeros may be
0872         omitted. A primary and a backup key may be specified by separating them
0873         by a comma. If only one key is specified, it becomes the primary key and
0874         any previously configured backup keys are removed.
0875 
0876 tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
0877         Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
0878         will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value
0879         is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission
0880         with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
0881         for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
0882 
0883 tcp_timestamps - INTEGER
0884         Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
0885 
0886         - 0: Disabled.
0887         - 1: Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323 and use random offset for
0888           each connection rather than only using the current time.
0889         - 2: Like 1, but without random offsets.
0890 
0891         Default: 1
0892 
0893 tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER
0894         Minimal number of segments per TSO frame.
0895 
0896         Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames,
0897         depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets.
0898         For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big
0899         TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets
0900         if available window is too small.
0901 
0902         Default: 2
0903 
0904 tcp_tso_rtt_log - INTEGER
0905         Adjustment of TSO packet sizes based on min_rtt
0906 
0907         Starting from linux-5.18, TCP autosizing can be tweaked
0908         for flows having small RTT.
0909 
0910         Old autosizing was splitting the pacing budget to send 1024 TSO
0911         per second.
0912 
0913         tso_packet_size = sk->sk_pacing_rate / 1024;
0914 
0915         With the new mechanism, we increase this TSO sizing using:
0916 
0917         distance = min_rtt_usec / (2^tcp_tso_rtt_log)
0918         tso_packet_size += gso_max_size >> distance;
0919 
0920         This means that flows between very close hosts can use bigger
0921         TSO packets, reducing their cpu costs.
0922 
0923         If you want to use the old autosizing, set this sysctl to 0.
0924 
0925         Default: 9  (2^9 = 512 usec)
0926 
0927 tcp_pacing_ss_ratio - INTEGER
0928         sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
0929         to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
0930         If TCP is in slow start, tcp_pacing_ss_ratio is applied
0931         to let TCP probe for bigger speeds, assuming cwnd can be
0932         doubled every other RTT.
0933 
0934         Default: 200
0935 
0936 tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER
0937         sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
0938         to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
0939         If TCP is in congestion avoidance phase, tcp_pacing_ca_ratio
0940         is applied to conservatively probe for bigger throughput.
0941 
0942         Default: 120
0943 
0944 tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
0945         This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
0946         can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
0947         The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
0948         building larger TSO frames.
0949 
0950         Default: 3
0951 
0952 tcp_tw_reuse - INTEGER
0953         Enable reuse of TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
0954         safe from protocol viewpoint.
0955 
0956         - 0 - disable
0957         - 1 - global enable
0958         - 2 - enable for loopback traffic only
0959 
0960         It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
0961         experts.
0962 
0963         Default: 2
0964 
0965 tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
0966         Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
0967 
0968 tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
0969         min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
0970         Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
0971 
0972         Default: 4K
0973 
0974         default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets.  This
0975         value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
0976 
0977         It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
0978 
0979         Default: 16K
0980 
0981         max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
0982         send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
0983         net.core.wmem_max.  Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
0984         automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
0985         this value is ignored.
0986 
0987         Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
0988 
0989 tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER
0990         A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue,
0991         thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll()
0992         reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per
0993         socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will
0994         also not add new buffers if the limit is hit.
0995 
0996         This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for
0997         sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change
0998         to the global variable has immediate effect.
0999 
1000         Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF)
1001 
1002 tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
1003         If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
1004         remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
1005         If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
1006         not receive a window scaling option from them.
1007 
1008         Default: 0
1009 
1010 tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
1011         Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
1012         If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
1013         determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
1014         As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
1015         timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
1016         initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
1017         non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
1018         For more information on thin streams, see
1019         Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.rst
1020 
1021         Default: 0
1022 
1023 tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER
1024         Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket.
1025         TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it
1026         gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can
1027         result in a large amount of packets queued on the local machine
1028         (e.g.: qdiscs, CPU backlog, or device) hurting latency of other
1029         flows, for typical pfifo_fast qdiscs.  tcp_limit_output_bytes
1030         limits the number of bytes on qdisc or device to reduce artificial
1031         RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat.
1032 
1033         Default: 1048576 (16 * 65536)
1034 
1035 tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER
1036         Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended
1037         in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks)
1038         Note that this per netns rate limit can allow some side channel
1039         attacks and probably should not be enabled.
1040         TCP stack implements per TCP socket limits anyway.
1041         Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1042 
1043 UDP variables
1044 =============
1045 
1046 udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
1047         Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
1048         across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
1049         being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
1050         originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
1051         CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
1052 
1053         Default: 0 (disabled)
1054 
1055 udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
1056         Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
1057 
1058         min: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
1059 
1060         pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
1061 
1062         max: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
1063 
1064         Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
1065 
1066 udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
1067         Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
1068         Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
1069         total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
1070 
1071         Default: 4K
1072 
1073 udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
1074         UDP does not have tx memory accounting and this tunable has no effect.
1075 
1076 RAW variables
1077 =============
1078 
1079 raw_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
1080         Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
1081         across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
1082         being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
1083         originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
1084         CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
1085 
1086         Default: 1 (enabled)
1087 
1088 CIPSOv4 Variables
1089 =================
1090 
1091 cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
1092         If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
1093         cache.  If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
1094         miss.  However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
1095         invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
1096         off and the cache will always be "safe".
1097 
1098         Default: 1
1099 
1100 cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
1101         The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
1102         hash bucket containing a number of cache entries.  This variable limits
1103         the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value is, the
1104         more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached.  When the number of
1105         entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
1106         causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
1107 
1108         Default: 10
1109 
1110 cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
1111         Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
1112         the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
1113         This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
1114         categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
1115 
1116         Default: 0
1117 
1118 cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
1119         If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
1120         ip_options_compile() is called.  If unset, relax the checks done during
1121         ip_options_compile().  Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
1122         where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
1123         result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
1124         with other implementations that require strict checking.
1125 
1126         Default: 0
1127 
1128 IP Variables
1129 ============
1130 
1131 ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
1132         Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
1133         choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
1134         second the last local port number.
1135         If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity
1136         (one even and one odd value).
1137         Must be greater than or equal to ip_unprivileged_port_start.
1138         The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively.
1139 
1140 ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
1141         Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
1142         applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
1143         assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
1144         number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
1145 
1146         The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
1147         list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
1148         10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
1149         ports and update the current list with the one given in the
1150         input.
1151 
1152         Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
1153         settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
1154         when determining which ports are available for automatic port
1155         assignments.
1156 
1157         You can reserve ports which are not in the current
1158         ip_local_port_range, e.g.::
1159 
1160             $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
1161             32000       60999
1162             $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
1163             8080,9148
1164 
1165         although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
1166         if later the port range is changed to a value that will
1167         include the reserved ports. Also keep in mind, that overlapping
1168         of these ranges may affect probability of selecting ephemeral
1169         ports which are right after block of reserved ports.
1170 
1171         Default: Empty
1172 
1173 ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER
1174         This is a per-namespace sysctl.  It defines the first
1175         unprivileged port in the network namespace.  Privileged ports
1176         require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them.
1177         To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0.  They must not
1178         overlap with the ip_local_port_range.
1179 
1180         Default: 1024
1181 
1182 ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
1183         If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
1184         which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
1185 
1186         Default: 0
1187 
1188 ip_autobind_reuse - BOOLEAN
1189         By default, bind() does not select the ports automatically even if
1190         the new socket and all sockets bound to the port have SO_REUSEADDR.
1191         ip_autobind_reuse allows bind() to reuse the port and this is useful
1192         when you use bind()+connect(), but may break some applications.
1193         The preferred solution is to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT and this
1194         option should only be set by experts.
1195         Default: 0
1196 
1197 ip_dynaddr - INTEGER
1198         If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
1199         If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
1200         message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
1201         occurs.
1202 
1203         Default: 0
1204 
1205 ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN
1206         Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for
1207         certain kinds of local sockets.  Currently we only do this
1208         for established TCP and connected UDP sockets.
1209 
1210         It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that
1211         reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it.
1212 
1213         Default: 1
1214 
1215 ping_group_range - 2 INTEGERS
1216         Restrict ICMP_PROTO datagram sockets to users in the group range.
1217         The default is "1 0", meaning, that nobody (not even root) may
1218         create ping sockets.  Setting it to "100 100" would grant permissions
1219         to the single group. "0 4294967295" would enable it for the world, "100
1220         4294967295" would enable it for the users, but not daemons.
1221 
1222 tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
1223         Enable early demux for established TCP sockets.
1224 
1225         Default: 1
1226 
1227 udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
1228         Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if
1229         your system could experience more unconnected load.
1230 
1231         Default: 1
1232 
1233 icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
1234         If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
1235         requests sent to it.
1236 
1237         Default: 0
1238 
1239 icmp_echo_enable_probe - BOOLEAN
1240         If set to one, then the kernel will respond to RFC 8335 PROBE
1241         requests sent to it.
1242 
1243         Default: 0
1244 
1245 icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
1246         If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
1247         TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
1248 
1249         Default: 1
1250 
1251 icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
1252         Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
1253         icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
1254         0 to disable any limiting,
1255         otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1256         Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number
1257         of ICMP packets sent on all targets.
1258 
1259         Default: 1000
1260 
1261 icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER
1262         Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host.
1263         Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are
1264         controlled by this limit. For security reasons, the precise count
1265         of messages per second is randomized.
1266 
1267         Default: 1000
1268 
1269 icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER
1270         icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second,
1271         while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets.
1272         For security reasons, the precise burst size is randomized.
1273 
1274         Default: 50
1275 
1276 icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
1277         Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
1278 
1279         Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
1280 
1281         Default mask:     0000001100000011000 (6168)
1282 
1283         Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
1284 
1285                 = =========================
1286                 0 Echo Reply
1287                 3 Destination Unreachable [1]_
1288                 4 Source Quench [1]_
1289                 5 Redirect
1290                 8 Echo Request
1291                 B Time Exceeded [1]_
1292                 C Parameter Problem [1]_
1293                 D Timestamp Request
1294                 E Timestamp Reply
1295                 F Info Request
1296                 G Info Reply
1297                 H Address Mask Request
1298                 I Address Mask Reply
1299                 = =========================
1300 
1301         .. [1] These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
1302 
1303 icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
1304         Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
1305         frames.  Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
1306         If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
1307         will avoid log file clutter.
1308 
1309         Default: 1
1310 
1311 icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
1312 
1313         If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
1314         the exiting interface.
1315 
1316         If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
1317         the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
1318         This is the behaviour many network administrators will expect from
1319         a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
1320         much easier.
1321 
1322         Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
1323         then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
1324         has one will be used regardless of this setting.
1325 
1326         Default: 0
1327 
1328 igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
1329         Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
1330         Default: 20
1331 
1332         Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
1333         report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
1334         datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
1335         intend to).
1336 
1337         The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group
1338         report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
1339 
1340         M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
1341 
1342         Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
1343         So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
1344 
1345         (65536-24) / 12 = 5459
1346 
1347         The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
1348         this number may be lower.
1349 
1350 igmp_max_msf - INTEGER
1351         Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a
1352         multicast group.
1353 
1354         Default: 10
1355 
1356 igmp_qrv - INTEGER
1357         Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1).
1358 
1359         Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1)
1360 
1361         Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1362 
1363 force_igmp_version - INTEGER
1364         - 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback
1365           allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier
1366           Present timer expires.
1367         - 1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if
1368           receive IGMPv2/v3 query.
1369         - 2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive
1370           IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query.
1371         - 3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0.
1372 
1373         .. note::
1374 
1375            this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376
1376            Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could
1377            ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make
1378            this value as default 0 is recommended.
1379 
1380 ``conf/interface/*``
1381         changes special settings per interface (where
1382         interface" is the name of your network interface)
1383 
1384 ``conf/all/*``
1385           is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
1386 
1387 log_martians - BOOLEAN
1388         Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
1389         log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1390         conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
1391         it will be disabled otherwise
1392 
1393 accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1394         Accept ICMP redirect messages.
1395         accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
1396 
1397         - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
1398           forwarding for the interface is enabled
1399 
1400         or
1401 
1402         - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
1403           case forwarding for the interface is disabled
1404 
1405         accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
1406 
1407         default:
1408 
1409                 - TRUE (host)
1410                 - FALSE (router)
1411 
1412 forwarding - BOOLEAN
1413         Enable IP forwarding on this interface.  This controls whether packets
1414         received _on_ this interface can be forwarded.
1415 
1416 mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
1417         Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
1418         and a multicast routing daemon is required.
1419         conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
1420         routing for the interface
1421 
1422 medium_id - INTEGER
1423         Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
1424         are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
1425         the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
1426         The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
1427         to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
1428 
1429         Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
1430         the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
1431         two devices attached to different media.
1432 
1433 proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
1434         Do proxy arp.
1435 
1436         proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1437         conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
1438         it will be disabled otherwise
1439 
1440 proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
1441         Private VLAN proxy arp.
1442 
1443         Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
1444         (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
1445 
1446         This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
1447         3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
1448         communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
1449         the upstream router.  As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
1450         to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
1451         router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
1452         proxy_arp.
1453 
1454         This technology is known by different names:
1455 
1456           In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
1457           Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
1458           Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
1459           Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
1460 
1461 shared_media - BOOLEAN
1462         Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
1463         Overrides secure_redirects.
1464 
1465         shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1466         conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
1467         it will be disabled otherwise
1468 
1469         default TRUE
1470 
1471 secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
1472         Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the
1473         interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect
1474         rules still apply.
1475 
1476         Overridden by shared_media.
1477 
1478         secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1479         conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
1480         it will be disabled otherwise
1481 
1482         default TRUE
1483 
1484 send_redirects - BOOLEAN
1485         Send redirects, if router.
1486 
1487         send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1488         conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
1489         it will be disabled otherwise
1490 
1491         Default: TRUE
1492 
1493 bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
1494         Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
1495         not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
1496         BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
1497         conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
1498         for the interface
1499 
1500         default FALSE
1501 
1502         Not Implemented Yet.
1503 
1504 accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
1505         Accept packets with SRR option.
1506         conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
1507         with SRR option on the interface
1508 
1509         default
1510 
1511                 - TRUE (router)
1512                 - FALSE (host)
1513 
1514 accept_local - BOOLEAN
1515         Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
1516         suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
1517         local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
1518         default FALSE
1519 
1520 route_localnet - BOOLEAN
1521         Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination
1522         while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes.
1523 
1524         default FALSE
1525 
1526 rp_filter - INTEGER
1527         - 0 - No source validation.
1528         - 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
1529           Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
1530           is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
1531           By default failed packets are discarded.
1532         - 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
1533           Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
1534           and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
1535           the packet check will fail.
1536 
1537         Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
1538         to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
1539         or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
1540 
1541         The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
1542         when doing source validation on the {interface}.
1543 
1544         Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
1545         in startup scripts.
1546 
1547 src_valid_mark - BOOLEAN
1548         - 0 - The fwmark of the packet is not included in reverse path
1549           route lookup.  This allows for asymmetric routing configurations
1550           utilizing the fwmark in only one direction, e.g., transparent
1551           proxying.
1552 
1553         - 1 - The fwmark of the packet is included in reverse path route
1554           lookup.  This permits rp_filter to function when the fwmark is
1555           used for routing traffic in both directions.
1556 
1557         This setting also affects the utilization of fmwark when
1558         performing source address selection for ICMP replies, or
1559         determining addresses stored for the IPOPT_TS_TSANDADDR and
1560         IPOPT_RR IP options.
1561 
1562         The max value from conf/{all,interface}/src_valid_mark is used.
1563 
1564         Default value is 0.
1565 
1566 arp_filter - BOOLEAN
1567         - 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
1568           subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
1569           based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
1570           the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
1571           based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
1572           of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
1573 
1574         - 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
1575           from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
1576           sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
1577           IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
1578           particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
1579           balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
1580 
1581         arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1582         conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
1583         it will be disabled otherwise
1584 
1585 arp_announce - INTEGER
1586         Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
1587         source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
1588         interface:
1589 
1590         - 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
1591         - 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
1592           subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
1593           hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
1594           address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
1595           configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
1596           request we will check all our subnets that include the
1597           target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
1598           such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
1599           address according to the rules for level 2.
1600         - 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
1601           In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
1602           and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
1603           the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
1604           for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
1605           interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
1606           local address is found we select the first local address
1607           we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
1608           with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
1609           even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
1610 
1611         The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
1612 
1613         Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
1614         receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
1615         the level announces more valid sender's information.
1616 
1617 arp_ignore - INTEGER
1618         Define different modes for sending replies in response to
1619         received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
1620 
1621         - 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
1622           on any interface
1623         - 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1624           configured on the incoming interface
1625         - 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1626           configured on the incoming interface and both with the
1627           sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
1628         - 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
1629           only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
1630         - 4-7 - reserved
1631         - 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
1632 
1633         The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
1634         when ARP request is received on the {interface}
1635 
1636 arp_notify - BOOLEAN
1637         Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1638 
1639          ==  ==========================================================
1640           0  (default): do nothing
1641           1  Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
1642              or hardware address changes.
1643          ==  ==========================================================
1644 
1645 arp_accept - INTEGER
1646         Define behavior for accepting gratuitous ARP (garp) frames from devices
1647         that are not already present in the ARP table:
1648 
1649         - 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
1650         - 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
1651         - 2 - create new entries only if the source IP address is in the same
1652           subnet as an address configured on the interface that received the
1653           garp message.
1654 
1655         Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
1656         ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
1657 
1658         If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
1659         gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
1660         if this setting is on or off.
1661 
1662 arp_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN
1663         Clears the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events. This option is important for
1664         wireless devices where the ARP cache should not be cleared when roaming
1665         between access points on the same network. In most cases this should
1666         remain as the default (1).
1667 
1668         - 1 - (default): Clear the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events
1669         - 0 - Do not clear ARP cache on NOCARRIER events
1670 
1671 mcast_solicit - INTEGER
1672         The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state,
1673         when the associated hardware address is unknown.  Defaults
1674         to 3.
1675 
1676 ucast_solicit - INTEGER
1677         The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when
1678         the hardware address is being reconfirmed.  Defaults to 3.
1679 
1680 app_solicit - INTEGER
1681         The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
1682         via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
1683         mcast_resolicit).  Defaults to 0.
1684 
1685 mcast_resolicit - INTEGER
1686         The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and
1687         app probes in PROBE state.  Defaults to 0.
1688 
1689 disable_policy - BOOLEAN
1690         Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
1691 
1692 disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
1693         Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
1694 
1695 igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1696         The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1697         IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place.
1698 
1699         Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1700 
1701 igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1702         The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1703         IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place.
1704 
1705         Default: 1000 (1 seconds)
1706 
1707 ignore_routes_with_linkdown - BOOLEAN
1708         Ignore routes whose link is down when performing a FIB lookup.
1709 
1710 promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN
1711         When a primary IP address is removed from this interface
1712         promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of
1713         removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses.
1714 
1715 drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1716         Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer
1717         multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1718 
1719         This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC
1720         1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons.
1721 
1722         Default: off (0)
1723 
1724 drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN
1725         Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known
1726         good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1727         (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1728 
1729         Default: off (0)
1730 
1731 
1732 tag - INTEGER
1733         Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
1734 
1735         Default value is 0.
1736 
1737 xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1738         (Obsolete since linux-4.14)
1739         The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4
1740         destination cache entries.  At twice this value the system will
1741         refuse new allocations.
1742 
1743 igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN
1744         Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the
1745         224.0.0.X range.
1746 
1747         Default TRUE
1748 
1749 Alexey Kuznetsov.
1750 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
1751 
1752 Updated by:
1753 
1754 - Andi Kleen
1755   ak@muc.de
1756 - Nicolas Delon
1757   delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
1758 
1759 
1760 
1761 
1762 /proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables
1763 ==============================
1764 
1765 IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*.  tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
1766 apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
1767 
1768 bindv6only - BOOLEAN
1769         Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
1770         which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
1771         only.
1772 
1773                 - TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
1774                 - FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
1775 
1776         Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
1777 
1778 flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN
1779         Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label.
1780         You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the
1781         flow label manager.
1782 
1783         - TRUE: enabled
1784         - FALSE: disabled
1785 
1786         Default: TRUE
1787 
1788 auto_flowlabels - INTEGER
1789         Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the
1790         packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to
1791         identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath
1792         Routing (see RFC 6438).
1793 
1794         =  ===========================================================
1795         0  automatic flow labels are completely disabled
1796         1  automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be
1797            disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL
1798            socket option
1799         2  automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a
1800            per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option
1801         3  automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot
1802            be disabled by the socket option
1803         =  ===========================================================
1804 
1805         Default: 1
1806 
1807 flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN
1808         Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is
1809         reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF
1810         is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437.
1811 
1812         - TRUE: enabled
1813         - FALSE: disabled
1814 
1815         Default: true
1816 
1817 flowlabel_reflect - INTEGER
1818         Control flow label reflection. Needed for Path MTU
1819         Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast
1820         environments. See RFC 7690 and:
1821         https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01
1822 
1823         This is a bitmask.
1824 
1825         - 1: enabled for established flows
1826 
1827           Note that this prevents automatic flowlabel changes, as done
1828           in "tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission"
1829           and "tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit"
1830 
1831         - 2: enabled for TCP RESET packets (no active listener)
1832           If set, a RST packet sent in response to a SYN packet on a closed
1833           port will reflect the incoming flow label.
1834 
1835         - 4: enabled for ICMPv6 echo reply messages.
1836 
1837         Default: 0
1838 
1839 fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
1840         Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes.
1841 
1842         Default: 0 (Layer 3)
1843 
1844         Possible values:
1845 
1846         - 0 - Layer 3 (source and destination addresses plus flow label)
1847         - 1 - Layer 4 (standard 5-tuple)
1848         - 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
1849         - 3 - Custom multipath hash. Fields used for multipath hash calculation
1850           are determined by fib_multipath_hash_fields sysctl
1851 
1852 fib_multipath_hash_fields - UNSIGNED INTEGER
1853         When fib_multipath_hash_policy is set to 3 (custom multipath hash), the
1854         fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by this
1855         sysctl.
1856 
1857         This value is a bitmask which enables various fields for multipath hash
1858         calculation.
1859 
1860         Possible fields are:
1861 
1862         ====== ============================
1863         0x0001 Source IP address
1864         0x0002 Destination IP address
1865         0x0004 IP protocol
1866         0x0008 Flow Label
1867         0x0010 Source port
1868         0x0020 Destination port
1869         0x0040 Inner source IP address
1870         0x0080 Inner destination IP address
1871         0x0100 Inner IP protocol
1872         0x0200 Inner Flow Label
1873         0x0400 Inner source port
1874         0x0800 Inner destination port
1875         ====== ============================
1876 
1877         Default: 0x0007 (source IP, destination IP and IP protocol)
1878 
1879 anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN
1880         Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6
1881         echo reply
1882 
1883         - TRUE:  enabled
1884         - FALSE: disabled
1885 
1886         Default: FALSE
1887 
1888 idgen_delay - INTEGER
1889         Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry
1890         privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is
1891         detected.
1892 
1893         Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217)
1894 
1895 idgen_retries - INTEGER
1896         Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy
1897         address if a DAD conflict is detected.
1898 
1899         Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217)
1900 
1901 mld_qrv - INTEGER
1902         Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1).
1903 
1904         Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1)
1905 
1906         Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1907 
1908 max_dst_opts_number - INTEGER
1909         Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Destination
1910         options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1911         then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1912         TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1913 
1914         Default: 8
1915 
1916 max_hbh_opts_number - INTEGER
1917         Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Hop-by-Hop
1918         options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1919         then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1920         TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1921 
1922         Default: 8
1923 
1924 max_dst_opts_length - INTEGER
1925         Maximum length allowed for a Destination options extension
1926         header.
1927 
1928         Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1929 
1930 max_hbh_length - INTEGER
1931         Maximum length allowed for a Hop-by-Hop options extension
1932         header.
1933 
1934         Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1935 
1936 skip_notify_on_dev_down - BOOLEAN
1937         Controls whether an RTM_DELROUTE message is generated for routes
1938         removed when a device is taken down or deleted. IPv4 does not
1939         generate this message; IPv6 does by default. Setting this sysctl
1940         to true skips the message, making IPv4 and IPv6 on par in relying
1941         on userspace caches to track link events and evict routes.
1942 
1943         Default: false (generate message)
1944 
1945 nexthop_compat_mode - BOOLEAN
1946         New nexthop API provides a means for managing nexthops independent of
1947         prefixes. Backwards compatibilty with old route format is enabled by
1948         default which means route dumps and notifications contain the new
1949         nexthop attribute but also the full, expanded nexthop definition.
1950         Further, updates or deletes of a nexthop configuration generate route
1951         notifications for each fib entry using the nexthop. Once a system
1952         understands the new API, this sysctl can be disabled to achieve full
1953         performance benefits of the new API by disabling the nexthop expansion
1954         and extraneous notifications.
1955         Default: true (backward compat mode)
1956 
1957 fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER
1958         Whether to emit RTM_NEWROUTE notifications whenever RTM_F_OFFLOAD/
1959         RTM_F_TRAP/RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flags are changed.
1960 
1961         After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an
1962         acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel,
1963         but not necessarily in hardware.
1964         It is also possible for a route already installed in hardware to change
1965         its action and therefore its flags. For example, a host route that is
1966         trapping packets can be "promoted" to perform decapsulation following
1967         the installation of an IPinIP/VXLAN tunnel.
1968         The notifications will indicate to user-space the state of the route.
1969 
1970         Default: 0 (Do not emit notifications.)
1971 
1972         Possible values:
1973 
1974         - 0 - Do not emit notifications.
1975         - 1 - Emit notifications.
1976         - 2 - Emit notifications only for RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag change.
1977 
1978 ioam6_id - INTEGER
1979         Define the IOAM id of this node. Uses only 24 bits out of 32 in total.
1980 
1981         Min: 0
1982         Max: 0xFFFFFF
1983 
1984         Default: 0xFFFFFF
1985 
1986 ioam6_id_wide - LONG INTEGER
1987         Define the wide IOAM id of this node. Uses only 56 bits out of 64 in
1988         total. Can be different from ioam6_id.
1989 
1990         Min: 0
1991         Max: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
1992 
1993         Default: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
1994 
1995 IPv6 Fragmentation:
1996 
1997 ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
1998         Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
1999         ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
2000         the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
2001         is reached.
2002 
2003 ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
2004         See ip6frag_high_thresh
2005 
2006 ip6frag_time - INTEGER
2007         Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
2008 
2009 ``conf/default/*``:
2010         Change the interface-specific default settings.
2011 
2012         These settings would be used during creating new interfaces.
2013 
2014 
2015 ``conf/all/*``:
2016         Change all the interface-specific settings.
2017 
2018         [XXX:  Other special features than forwarding?]
2019 
2020 conf/all/disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
2021         Changing this value is same as changing ``conf/default/disable_ipv6``
2022         setting and also all per-interface ``disable_ipv6`` settings to the same
2023         value.
2024 
2025         Reading this value does not have any particular meaning. It does not say
2026         whether IPv6 support is enabled or disabled. Returned value can be 1
2027         also in the case when some interface has ``disable_ipv6`` set to 0 and
2028         has configured IPv6 addresses.
2029 
2030 conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
2031         Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
2032 
2033         IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
2034         to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
2035 
2036         This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
2037         'forwarding' to the specified value.  See below for details.
2038 
2039         This referred to as global forwarding.
2040 
2041 proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
2042         Do proxy ndp.
2043 
2044 fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
2045         Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not
2046         associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies).
2047         If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
2048         fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
2049 
2050         Default: 0
2051 
2052 ``conf/interface/*``:
2053         Change special settings per interface.
2054 
2055         The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
2056         depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
2057 
2058 accept_ra - INTEGER
2059         Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
2060 
2061         It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
2062         Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
2063         accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
2064         transmitted.
2065 
2066         Possible values are:
2067 
2068                 ==  ===========================================================
2069                  0  Do not accept Router Advertisements.
2070                  1  Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
2071                  2  Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
2072                     even if forwarding is enabled.
2073                 ==  ===========================================================
2074 
2075         Functional default:
2076 
2077                 - enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
2078                 - disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
2079 
2080 accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
2081         Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
2082 
2083         Functional default:
2084 
2085                 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2086                 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2087 
2088 ra_defrtr_metric - UNSIGNED INTEGER
2089         Route metric for default route learned in Router Advertisement. This value
2090         will be assigned as metric for the default route learned via IPv6 Router
2091         Advertisement. Takes affect only if accept_ra_defrtr is enabled.
2092 
2093         Possible values:
2094                 1 to 0xFFFFFFFF
2095 
2096                 Default: IP6_RT_PRIO_USER i.e. 1024.
2097 
2098 accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN
2099         Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine
2100         if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted.
2101 
2102         Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended
2103         network loop.
2104 
2105         Functional default:
2106 
2107            - enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled
2108              on a specific interface.
2109            - disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled
2110              on a specific interface.
2111 
2112 accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER
2113         Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement.
2114 
2115         Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this
2116         variable shall be ignored.
2117 
2118         Default: 1
2119 
2120 accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
2121         Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
2122 
2123         Functional default:
2124 
2125                 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2126                 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2127 
2128 accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER
2129         Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
2130 
2131         Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall
2132         be ignored.
2133 
2134         Functional default:
2135 
2136                 * 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
2137                 * -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
2138 
2139 accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
2140         Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
2141 
2142         Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall
2143         be ignored.
2144 
2145         Functional default:
2146 
2147                 * 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
2148                 * -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
2149 
2150 accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
2151         Accept Router Preference in RA.
2152 
2153         Functional default:
2154 
2155                 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2156                 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2157 
2158 accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
2159         Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
2160         disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
2161 
2162         Functional default:
2163 
2164                 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2165                 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2166 
2167 accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
2168         Accept Redirects.
2169 
2170         Functional default:
2171 
2172                 - enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
2173                 - disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
2174 
2175 accept_source_route - INTEGER
2176         Accept source routing (routing extension header).
2177 
2178         - >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
2179         - < 0: Do not accept routing header.
2180 
2181         Default: 0
2182 
2183 autoconf - BOOLEAN
2184         Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
2185         Advertisements.
2186 
2187         Functional default:
2188 
2189                 - enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
2190                 - disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
2191 
2192 dad_transmits - INTEGER
2193         The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
2194 
2195         Default: 1
2196 
2197 forwarding - INTEGER
2198         Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
2199 
2200         .. note::
2201 
2202            It is recommended to have the same setting on all
2203            interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
2204 
2205         Possible values are:
2206 
2207                 - 0 Forwarding disabled
2208                 - 1 Forwarding enabled
2209 
2210         **FALSE (0)**:
2211 
2212         By default, Host behaviour is assumed.  This means:
2213 
2214         1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
2215         2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
2216            Solicitations.
2217         3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
2218            Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
2219         4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
2220 
2221         **TRUE (1)**:
2222 
2223         If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
2224         This means exactly the reverse from the above:
2225 
2226         1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
2227         2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
2228         3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
2229         4. Redirects are ignored.
2230 
2231         Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
2232         otherwise 1 (enabled).
2233 
2234 hop_limit - INTEGER
2235         Default Hop Limit to set.
2236 
2237         Default: 64
2238 
2239 mtu - INTEGER
2240         Default Maximum Transfer Unit
2241 
2242         Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
2243 
2244 ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
2245         If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses,
2246         which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
2247 
2248         Default: 0
2249 
2250 router_probe_interval - INTEGER
2251         Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
2252         in RFC4191.
2253 
2254         Default: 60
2255 
2256 router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
2257         Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
2258         before sending Router Solicitations.
2259 
2260         Default: 1
2261 
2262 router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
2263         Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
2264 
2265         Default: 4
2266 
2267 router_solicitations - INTEGER
2268         Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
2269         routers are present.
2270 
2271         Default: 3
2272 
2273 use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN
2274         When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations
2275         routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
2276         configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
2277 
2278         Default: false
2279 
2280 use_tempaddr - INTEGER
2281         Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
2282 
2283           * <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
2284           * == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
2285             addresses over temporary addresses.
2286           * >  1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
2287             addresses over public addresses.
2288 
2289         Default:
2290 
2291                 * 0 (for most devices)
2292                 * -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
2293 
2294 temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
2295         valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
2296 
2297         Default: 172800 (2 days)
2298 
2299 temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
2300         Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
2301 
2302         Default: 86400 (1 day)
2303 
2304 keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER
2305         Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static
2306         global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed.
2307 
2308         *   >0 : enabled
2309         *    0 : system default
2310         *   <0 : disabled
2311 
2312         Default: 0 (addresses are removed)
2313 
2314 max_desync_factor - INTEGER
2315         Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
2316         that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
2317         other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
2318         value is in seconds.
2319 
2320         Default: 600
2321 
2322 regen_max_retry - INTEGER
2323         Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
2324         valid temporary addresses.
2325 
2326         Default: 5
2327 
2328 max_addresses - INTEGER
2329         Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface.  Setting
2330         to zero disables the limitation.  It is not recommended to set this
2331         value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
2332         crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
2333 
2334         Default: 16
2335 
2336 disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
2337         Disable IPv6 operation.  If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
2338         will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
2339         address.
2340 
2341         Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
2342 
2343         When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
2344         it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
2345         interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
2346 
2347         When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
2348         it will dynamically delete all addresses and routes on the given
2349         interface. From now on it will not possible to add addresses/routes
2350         to the selected interface.
2351 
2352 accept_dad - INTEGER
2353         Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
2354 
2355          == ==============================================================
2356           0  Disable DAD
2357           1  Enable DAD (default)
2358           2  Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
2359              link-local address has been found.
2360          == ==============================================================
2361 
2362         DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according
2363         to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad.
2364 
2365 force_tllao - BOOLEAN
2366         Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
2367         responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
2368 
2369         Default: FALSE
2370 
2371         Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
2372 
2373         "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
2374         avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
2375         does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
2376         message.  When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
2377         omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
2378         layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
2379         solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
2380         address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
2381         race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
2382         prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
2383 
2384 ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN
2385         Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
2386 
2387         * 0 - (default): do nothing
2388         * 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought
2389           up or hardware address changes.
2390 
2391 ndisc_tclass - INTEGER
2392         The IPv6 Traffic Class to use by default when sending IPv6 Neighbor
2393         Discovery (Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor
2394         Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, Redirect) messages.
2395         These 8 bits can be interpreted as 6 high order bits holding the DSCP
2396         value and 2 low order bits representing ECN (which you probably want
2397         to leave cleared).
2398 
2399         * 0 - (default)
2400 
2401 ndisc_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN
2402         Clears the neighbor discovery table on NOCARRIER events. This option is
2403         important for wireless devices where the neighbor discovery cache should
2404         not be cleared when roaming between access points on the same network.
2405         In most cases this should remain as the default (1).
2406 
2407         - 1 - (default): Clear neighbor discover cache on NOCARRIER events.
2408         - 0 - Do not clear neighbor discovery cache on NOCARRIER events.
2409 
2410 mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
2411         The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
2412         MLDv1 report retransmit will take place.
2413 
2414         Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
2415 
2416 mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
2417         The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
2418         MLDv2 report retransmit will take place.
2419 
2420         Default: 1000 (1 second)
2421 
2422 force_mld_version - INTEGER
2423         * 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed
2424         * 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1
2425         * 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2
2426 
2427 suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER
2428         Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation
2429         with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior:
2430 
2431         * 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets
2432         * 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets
2433 
2434 optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN
2435         Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429).
2436 
2437         * 0: disabled (default)
2438         * 1: enabled
2439 
2440         Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled
2441         if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1,
2442         it will be disabled otherwise.
2443 
2444 use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
2445         If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during
2446         source address selection.  Preferred addresses will still be chosen
2447         before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source
2448         address selection algorithm.
2449 
2450         * 0: disabled (default)
2451         * 1: enabled
2452 
2453         This will be enabled if at least one of
2454         conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise.
2455 
2456 stable_secret - IPv6 address
2457         This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6
2458         addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured
2459         ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will
2460         be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the
2461         addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the
2462         secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can
2463         overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused.
2464 
2465         It is recommended to generate this secret during installation
2466         of a system and keep it stable after that.
2467 
2468         By default the stable secret is unset.
2469 
2470 addr_gen_mode - INTEGER
2471         Defines how link-local and autoconf addresses are generated.
2472 
2473         =  =================================================================
2474         0  generate address based on EUI64 (default)
2475         1  do no generate a link-local address, use EUI64 for addresses
2476            generated from autoconf
2477         2  generate stable privacy addresses, using the secret from
2478            stable_secret (RFC7217)
2479         3  generate stable privacy addresses, using a random secret if unset
2480         =  =================================================================
2481 
2482 drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
2483         Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer
2484         multicast (or broadcast) frames.
2485 
2486         By default this is turned off.
2487 
2488 drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
2489         Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
2490         a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
2491         (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
2492 
2493         By default this is turned off.
2494 
2495 accept_untracked_na - INTEGER
2496         Define behavior for accepting neighbor advertisements from devices that
2497         are absent in the neighbor cache:
2498 
2499         - 0 - (default) Do not accept unsolicited and untracked neighbor
2500           advertisements.
2501 
2502         - 1 - Add a new neighbor cache entry in STALE state for routers on
2503           receiving a neighbor advertisement (either solicited or unsolicited)
2504           with target link-layer address option specified if no neighbor entry
2505           is already present for the advertised IPv6 address. Without this knob,
2506           NAs received for untracked addresses (absent in neighbor cache) are
2507           silently ignored.
2508 
2509           This is as per router-side behavior documented in RFC9131.
2510 
2511           This has lower precedence than drop_unsolicited_na.
2512 
2513           This will optimize the return path for the initial off-link
2514           communication that is initiated by a directly connected host, by
2515           ensuring that the first-hop router which turns on this setting doesn't
2516           have to buffer the initial return packets to do neighbor-solicitation.
2517           The prerequisite is that the host is configured to send unsolicited
2518           neighbor advertisements on interface bringup. This setting should be
2519           used in conjunction with the ndisc_notify setting on the host to
2520           satisfy this prerequisite.
2521 
2522         - 2 - Extend option (1) to add a new neighbor cache entry only if the
2523           source IP address is in the same subnet as an address configured on
2524           the interface that received the neighbor advertisement.
2525 
2526 enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN
2527         Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for
2528         duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal
2529         a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false
2530         detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send.
2531         The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of
2532         conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE.
2533 
2534         Default: TRUE
2535 
2536 ``icmp/*``:
2537 ===========
2538 
2539 ratelimit - INTEGER
2540         Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 messages.
2541 
2542         0 to disable any limiting,
2543         otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
2544 
2545         Default: 1000
2546 
2547 ratemask - list of comma separated ranges
2548         For ICMPv6 message types matching the ranges in the ratemask, limit
2549         the sending of the message according to ratelimit parameter.
2550 
2551         The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
2552         list of ranges (e.g. "0-127,129" for ICMPv6 message type 0 to 127 and
2553         129). Writing to the file will clear all previous ranges of ICMPv6
2554         message types and update the current list with the input.
2555 
2556         Refer to: https://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters/icmpv6-parameters.xhtml
2557         for numerical values of ICMPv6 message types, e.g. echo request is 128
2558         and echo reply is 129.
2559 
2560         Default: 0-1,3-127 (rate limit ICMPv6 errors except Packet Too Big)
2561 
2562 echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
2563         If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2564         requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol.
2565 
2566         Default: 0
2567 
2568 echo_ignore_multicast - BOOLEAN
2569         If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2570         requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol via multicast.
2571 
2572         Default: 0
2573 
2574 echo_ignore_anycast - BOOLEAN
2575         If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2576         requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol destined to anycast address.
2577 
2578         Default: 0
2579 
2580 xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER
2581         (Obsolete since linux-4.14)
2582         The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6
2583         destination cache entries.  At twice this value the system will
2584         refuse new allocations.
2585 
2586 
2587 IPv6 Update by:
2588 Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
2589 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2590 
2591 
2592 /proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
2593 =================================
2594 
2595 bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
2596         - 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
2597         - 0 : disable this.
2598 
2599         Default: 1
2600 
2601 bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
2602         - 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
2603         - 0 : disable this.
2604 
2605         Default: 1
2606 
2607 bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
2608         - 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
2609         - 0 : disable this.
2610 
2611         Default: 1
2612 
2613 bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
2614         - 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
2615         - 0 : disable this.
2616 
2617         Default: 0
2618 
2619 bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
2620         - 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
2621         - 0 : disable this.
2622 
2623         Default: 0
2624 
2625 bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
2626         - 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
2627           interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the
2628           vlan. This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the
2629           REDIRECT target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces.  When no
2630           matching vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input
2631           device is set to the bridge interface.
2632 
2633         - 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
2634 
2635         Default: 0
2636 
2637 ``proc/sys/net/sctp/*`` Variables:
2638 ==================================
2639 
2640 addip_enable - BOOLEAN
2641         Enable or disable extension of  Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2642         (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061.  This extension provides
2643         the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
2644         associations.
2645 
2646         1: Enable extension.
2647 
2648         0: Disable extension.
2649 
2650         Default: 0
2651 
2652 pf_enable - INTEGER
2653         Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value
2654         of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of
2655         both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state.
2656         Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace
2657         application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of
2658         pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans
2659         or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is
2660         enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable
2661         and disable pf state. See:
2662         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for
2663         details.
2664 
2665         1: Enable pf.
2666 
2667         0: Disable pf.
2668 
2669         Default: 1
2670 
2671 pf_expose - INTEGER
2672         Unset or enable/disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state
2673         exposure.  Applications can control the exposure of the PF path state
2674         in the SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event and the SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO
2675         sockopt.   When it's unset, no SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event with
2676         SCTP_ADDR_PF state will be sent and a SCTP_PF-state transport info
2677         can be got via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt;  When it's enabled,
2678         a SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent for a transport becoming
2679         SCTP_PF state and a SCTP_PF-state transport info can be got via
2680         SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt;  When it's diabled, no
2681         SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent and it returns -EACCES when
2682         trying to get a SCTP_PF-state transport info via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO
2683         sockopt.
2684 
2685         0: Unset pf state exposure, Compatible with old applications.
2686 
2687         1: Disable pf state exposure.
2688 
2689         2: Enable pf state exposure.
2690 
2691         Default: 0
2692 
2693 addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
2694         Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
2695         authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
2696         addresses.  This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
2697         would not be able to hijack associations.  However, older
2698         implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
2699         allowing the ADD-IP extension.  For reasons of interoperability,
2700         we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
2701         authentication requirement.
2702 
2703         == ===============================================================
2704         1  Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication.  This
2705            should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
2706            with older implementations.
2707 
2708         0  Enforce the authentication requirement
2709         == ===============================================================
2710 
2711         Default: 0
2712 
2713 auth_enable - BOOLEAN
2714         Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension.  This extension
2715         provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
2716         required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2717         (ADD-IP) extension.
2718 
2719         - 1: Enable this extension.
2720         - 0: Disable this extension.
2721 
2722         Default: 0
2723 
2724 prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
2725         Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
2726         is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
2727 
2728         - 1: Enable extension
2729         - 0: Disable
2730 
2731         Default: 1
2732 
2733 max_burst - INTEGER
2734         The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent.  It
2735         controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
2736 
2737         Default: 4
2738 
2739 association_max_retrans - INTEGER
2740         Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
2741         attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable.  If this value
2742         is exceeded, the association is terminated.
2743 
2744         Default: 10
2745 
2746 max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
2747         The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
2748         that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
2749         unreachable and terminating.
2750 
2751         Default: 8
2752 
2753 path_max_retrans - INTEGER
2754         The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
2755         path.  Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
2756         unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
2757         association is multihomed.
2758 
2759         Default: 5
2760 
2761 pf_retrans - INTEGER
2762         The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path
2763         before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one
2764         exist).  Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that
2765         passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used.  Its only
2766         deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack.  This
2767         setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without
2768         having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value.  See:
2769         http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt
2770         for details.  Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans
2771         disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can
2772         be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to
2773         disable pf state.
2774 
2775         Default: 0
2776 
2777 ps_retrans - INTEGER
2778         Primary.Switchover.Max.Retrans (PSMR), it's a tunable parameter coming
2779         from section-5 "Primary Path Switchover" in rfc7829.  The primary path
2780         will be changed to another active path when the path error counter on
2781         the old primary path exceeds PSMR, so that "the SCTP sender is allowed
2782         to continue data transmission on a new working path even when the old
2783         primary destination address becomes active again".   Note this feature
2784         is disabled by initializing 'ps_retrans' per netns as 0xffff by default,
2785         and its value can't be less than 'pf_retrans' when changing by sysctl.
2786 
2787         Default: 0xffff
2788 
2789 rto_initial - INTEGER
2790         The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
2791         in calculating round trip times.  This is the initial time interval
2792         for retransmissions.
2793 
2794         Default: 3000
2795 
2796 rto_max - INTEGER
2797         The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout.  This
2798         is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
2799 
2800         Default: 60000
2801 
2802 rto_min - INTEGER
2803         The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout.  This
2804         is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
2805 
2806         Default: 1000
2807 
2808 hb_interval - INTEGER
2809         The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks.  These chunks
2810         are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
2811         a given path between 2 associations.
2812 
2813         Default: 30000
2814 
2815 sack_timeout - INTEGER
2816         The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
2817         to send a SACK.
2818 
2819         Default: 200
2820 
2821 valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
2822         The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds).  The cookie
2823         is used during association establishment.
2824 
2825         Default: 60000
2826 
2827 cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
2828         Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
2829         that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
2830 
2831         - 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
2832         - 0: Disable
2833 
2834         Default: 1
2835 
2836 cookie_hmac_alg - STRING
2837         Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by
2838         a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk.
2839         Valid values are:
2840 
2841         * md5
2842         * sha1
2843         * none
2844 
2845         Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the
2846         configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and
2847         CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1).
2848 
2849         Default: Dependent on configuration.  MD5 if available, else SHA1 if
2850         available, else none.
2851 
2852 rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
2853         Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
2854         association.   SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
2855         associations on a single socket.  When using this capability, it is
2856         possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
2857         of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
2858         consuming all of the receive buffer space.  To work around this,
2859         the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
2860         to each association instead of the socket.  This prevents the described
2861         blocking.
2862 
2863         - 1: rcvbuf space is per association
2864         - 0: rcvbuf space is per socket
2865 
2866         Default: 0
2867 
2868 sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
2869         Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
2870 
2871         - 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
2872         - 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
2873 
2874         Default: 0
2875 
2876 sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
2877         Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2878 
2879         min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
2880         memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
2881         this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
2882 
2883         pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
2884 
2885         max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2886 
2887         Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
2888 
2889 sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2890         Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2891         ignored.
2892 
2893         min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
2894         It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2895         under moderate memory pressure.
2896 
2897         Default: 4K
2898 
2899 sctp_wmem  - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2900         Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2901         ignored.
2902 
2903         min: Minimum size of send buffer that can be used by SCTP sockets.
2904         It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2905         under moderate memory pressure.
2906 
2907         Default: 4K
2908 
2909 addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
2910         Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
2911 
2912         - 0   - Disable IPv4 address scoping
2913         - 1   - Enable IPv4 address scoping
2914         - 2   - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
2915         - 3   - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
2916 
2917         Default: 1
2918 
2919 udp_port - INTEGER
2920         The listening port for the local UDP tunneling sock. Normally it's
2921         using the IANA-assigned UDP port number 9899 (sctp-tunneling).
2922 
2923         This UDP sock is used for processing the incoming UDP-encapsulated
2924         SCTP packets (from RFC6951), and shared by all applications in the
2925         same net namespace. This UDP sock will be closed when the value is
2926         set to 0.
2927 
2928         The value will also be used to set the src port of the UDP header
2929         for the outgoing UDP-encapsulated SCTP packets. For the dest port,
2930         please refer to 'encap_port' below.
2931 
2932         Default: 0
2933 
2934 encap_port - INTEGER
2935         The default remote UDP encapsulation port.
2936 
2937         This value is used to set the dest port of the UDP header for the
2938         outgoing UDP-encapsulated SCTP packets by default. Users can also
2939         change the value for each sock/asoc/transport by using setsockopt.
2940         For further information, please refer to RFC6951.
2941 
2942         Note that when connecting to a remote server, the client should set
2943         this to the port that the UDP tunneling sock on the peer server is
2944         listening to and the local UDP tunneling sock on the client also
2945         must be started. On the server, it would get the encap_port from
2946         the incoming packet's source port.
2947 
2948         Default: 0
2949 
2950 plpmtud_probe_interval - INTEGER
2951         The time interval (in milliseconds) for the PLPMTUD probe timer,
2952         which is configured to expire after this period to receive an
2953         acknowledgment to a probe packet. This is also the time interval
2954         between the probes for the current pmtu when the probe search
2955         is done.
2956 
2957         PLPMTUD will be disabled when 0 is set, and other values for it
2958         must be >= 5000.
2959 
2960         Default: 0
2961 
2962 reconf_enable - BOOLEAN
2963         Enable or disable extension of Stream Reconfiguration functionality
2964         specified in RFC6525. This extension provides the ability to "reset"
2965         a stream, and it includes the Parameters of "Outgoing/Incoming SSN
2966         Reset", "SSN/TSN Reset" and "Add Outgoing/Incoming Streams".
2967 
2968         - 1: Enable extension.
2969         - 0: Disable extension.
2970 
2971         Default: 0
2972 
2973 intl_enable - BOOLEAN
2974         Enable or disable extension of User Message Interleaving functionality
2975         specified in RFC8260. This extension allows the interleaving of user
2976         messages sent on different streams. With this feature enabled, I-DATA
2977         chunk will replace DATA chunk to carry user messages if also supported
2978         by the peer. Note that to use this feature, one needs to set this option
2979         to 1 and also needs to set socket options SCTP_FRAGMENT_INTERLEAVE to 2
2980         and SCTP_INTERLEAVING_SUPPORTED to 1.
2981 
2982         - 1: Enable extension.
2983         - 0: Disable extension.
2984 
2985         Default: 0
2986 
2987 ecn_enable - BOOLEAN
2988         Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by SCTP.
2989         Like in TCP, ECN is used only when both ends of the SCTP connection
2990         indicate support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses
2991         due to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal congestion
2992         before having to drop packets.
2993 
2994         1: Enable ecn.
2995         0: Disable ecn.
2996 
2997         Default: 1
2998 
2999 
3000 ``/proc/sys/net/core/*``
3001 ========================
3002 
3003         Please see: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries.
3004 
3005 
3006 ``/proc/sys/net/unix/*``
3007 ========================
3008 
3009 max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
3010         The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
3011 
3012         Default: 10
3013