1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
2
3=========
4IP Sysctl
5=========
6
7/proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables
8==============================
9
10ip_forward - BOOLEAN
11	- 0 - disabled (default)
12	- not 0 - enabled
13
14	Forward Packets between interfaces.
15
16	This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
17	parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
18	for routers)
19
20ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
21	Default value of TTL field (Time To Live) for outgoing (but not
22	forwarded) IP packets. Should be between 1 and 255 inclusive.
23	Default: 64 (as recommended by RFC1700)
24
25ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER
26	Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled in mode 1 and a
27	fragmentation-required ICMP is received, the PMTU to this
28	destination will be set to the smallest of the old MTU to
29	this destination and min_pmtu (see below). You will need
30	to raise min_pmtu to the smallest interface MTU on your system
31	manually if you want to avoid locally generated fragments.
32
33	In mode 2 incoming Path MTU Discovery messages will be
34	discarded. Outgoing frames are handled the same as in mode 1,
35	implicitly setting IP_PMTUDISC_DONT on every created socket.
36
37	Mode 3 is a hardened pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only
38	accept fragmentation-needed errors if the underlying protocol
39	can verify them besides a plain socket lookup. Current
40	protocols for which pmtu events will be honored are TCP, SCTP
41	and DCCP as they verify e.g. the sequence number or the
42	association. This mode should not be enabled globally but is
43	only intended to secure e.g. name servers in namespaces where
44	TCP path mtu must still work but path MTU information of other
45	protocols should be discarded. If enabled globally this mode
46	could break other protocols.
47
48	Possible values: 0-3
49
50	Default: FALSE
51
52min_pmtu - INTEGER
53	default 552 - minimum Path MTU. Unless this is changed mannually,
54	each cached pmtu will never be lower than this setting.
55
56ip_forward_use_pmtu - BOOLEAN
57	By default we don't trust protocol path MTUs while forwarding
58	because they could be easily forged and can lead to unwanted
59	fragmentation by the router.
60	You only need to enable this if you have user-space software
61	which tries to discover path mtus by itself and depends on the
62	kernel honoring this information. This is normally not the
63	case.
64
65	Default: 0 (disabled)
66
67	Possible values:
68
69	- 0 - disabled
70	- 1 - enabled
71
72fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
73	Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv4 reply packets that are not
74	associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMP echo replies).
75	If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
76	fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
77
78	Default: 0
79
80fib_multipath_use_neigh - BOOLEAN
81	Use status of existing neighbor entry when determining nexthop for
82	multipath routes. If disabled, neighbor information is not used and
83	packets could be directed to a failed nexthop. Only valid for kernels
84	built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled.
85
86	Default: 0 (disabled)
87
88	Possible values:
89
90	- 0 - disabled
91	- 1 - enabled
92
93fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
94	Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes. Only valid
95	for kernels built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled.
96
97	Default: 0 (Layer 3)
98
99	Possible values:
100
101	- 0 - Layer 3
102	- 1 - Layer 4
103	- 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
104	- 3 - Custom multipath hash. Fields used for multipath hash calculation
105	  are determined by fib_multipath_hash_fields sysctl
106
107fib_multipath_hash_fields - UNSIGNED INTEGER
108	When fib_multipath_hash_policy is set to 3 (custom multipath hash), the
109	fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by this
110	sysctl.
111
112	This value is a bitmask which enables various fields for multipath hash
113	calculation.
114
115	Possible fields are:
116
117	====== ============================
118	0x0001 Source IP address
119	0x0002 Destination IP address
120	0x0004 IP protocol
121	0x0008 Unused (Flow Label)
122	0x0010 Source port
123	0x0020 Destination port
124	0x0040 Inner source IP address
125	0x0080 Inner destination IP address
126	0x0100 Inner IP protocol
127	0x0200 Inner Flow Label
128	0x0400 Inner source port
129	0x0800 Inner destination port
130	====== ============================
131
132	Default: 0x0007 (source IP, destination IP and IP protocol)
133
134fib_sync_mem - UNSIGNED INTEGER
135	Amount of dirty memory from fib entries that can be backlogged before
136	synchronize_rcu is forced.
137
138	Default: 512kB   Minimum: 64kB   Maximum: 64MB
139
140ip_forward_update_priority - INTEGER
141	Whether to update SKB priority from "TOS" field in IPv4 header after it
142	is forwarded. The new SKB priority is mapped from TOS field value
143	according to an rt_tos2priority table (see e.g. man tc-prio).
144
145	Default: 1 (Update priority.)
146
147	Possible values:
148
149	- 0 - Do not update priority.
150	- 1 - Update priority.
151
152route/max_size - INTEGER
153	Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel.  Increase
154	this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
155
156	From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4
157	as route cache is no longer used.
158
159neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
160	Minimum number of entries to keep.  Garbage collector will not
161	purge entries if there are fewer than this number.
162
163	Default: 128
164
165neigh/default/gc_thresh2 - INTEGER
166	Threshold when garbage collector becomes more aggressive about
167	purging entries. Entries older than 5 seconds will be cleared
168	when over this number.
169
170	Default: 512
171
172neigh/default/gc_thresh3 - INTEGER
173	Maximum number of non-PERMANENT neighbor entries allowed.  Increase
174	this when using large numbers of interfaces and when communicating
175	with large numbers of directly-connected peers.
176
177	Default: 1024
178
179neigh/default/unres_qlen_bytes - INTEGER
180	The maximum number of bytes which may be used by packets
181	queued for each	unresolved address by other network layers.
182	(added in linux 3.3)
183
184	Setting negative value is meaningless and will return error.
185
186	Default: SK_WMEM_MAX, (same as net.core.wmem_default).
187
188		Exact value depends on architecture and kernel options,
189		but should be enough to allow queuing 256 packets
190		of medium size.
191
192neigh/default/unres_qlen - INTEGER
193	The maximum number of packets which may be queued for each
194	unresolved address by other network layers.
195
196	(deprecated in linux 3.3) : use unres_qlen_bytes instead.
197
198	Prior to linux 3.3, the default value is 3 which may cause
199	unexpected packet loss. The current default value is calculated
200	according to default value of unres_qlen_bytes and true size of
201	packet.
202
203	Default: 101
204
205neigh/default/interval_probe_time_ms - INTEGER
206	The probe interval for neighbor entries with NTF_MANAGED flag,
207	the min value is 1.
208
209	Default: 5000
210
211mtu_expires - INTEGER
212	Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
213
214min_adv_mss - INTEGER
215	The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
216	never be lower than this setting.
217
218fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER
219        Whether to emit RTM_NEWROUTE notifications whenever RTM_F_OFFLOAD/
220        RTM_F_TRAP/RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flags are changed.
221
222        After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an
223        acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel,
224        but not necessarily in hardware.
225        It is also possible for a route already installed in hardware to change
226        its action and therefore its flags. For example, a host route that is
227        trapping packets can be "promoted" to perform decapsulation following
228        the installation of an IPinIP/VXLAN tunnel.
229        The notifications will indicate to user-space the state of the route.
230
231        Default: 0 (Do not emit notifications.)
232
233        Possible values:
234
235        - 0 - Do not emit notifications.
236        - 1 - Emit notifications.
237        - 2 - Emit notifications only for RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag change.
238
239IP Fragmentation:
240
241ipfrag_high_thresh - LONG INTEGER
242	Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments.
243
244ipfrag_low_thresh - LONG INTEGER
245	(Obsolete since linux-4.17)
246	Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments before the kernel
247	begins to remove incomplete fragment queues to free up resources.
248	The kernel still accepts new fragments for defragmentation.
249
250ipfrag_time - INTEGER
251	Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
252
253ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
254	ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
255	maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
256	common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
257	not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
258	IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
259	probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
260	have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
261	is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
262	ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
263	address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
264	address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
265	lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
266	started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
267
268	Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
269	result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
270	reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
271	performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
272	likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
273	from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
274	Default: 64
275
276bc_forwarding - INTEGER
277	bc_forwarding enables the feature described in rfc1812#section-5.3.5.2
278	and rfc2644. It allows the router to forward directed broadcast.
279	To enable this feature, the 'all' entry and the input interface entry
280	should be set to 1.
281	Default: 0
282
283INET peer storage
284=================
285
286inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
287	The approximate size of the storage.  Starting from this threshold
288	entries will be thrown aggressively.  This threshold also determines
289	entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
290	passes.  More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
291
292inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
293	Minimum time-to-live of entries.  Should be enough to cover fragment
294	time-to-live on the reassembling side.  This minimum time-to-live  is
295	guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
296	Measured in seconds.
297
298inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
299	Maximum time-to-live of entries.  Unused entries will expire after
300	this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
301	when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
302	Measured in seconds.
303
304TCP variables
305=============
306
307somaxconn - INTEGER
308	Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
309	Defaults to 4096. (Was 128 before linux-5.4)
310	See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning for TCP sockets.
311
312tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
313	If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
314	reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
315	occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
316	option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
317	cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
318	option can harm clients of your server.
319
320tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
321	Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
322	(if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
323	if it is <= 0.
324
325	Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive.
326
327	Default: 1
328
329tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
330	Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
331	processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
332	tcp_available_congestion_control.
333
334	Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
335
336tcp_app_win - INTEGER
337	Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
338	buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
339
340	Default: 31
341
342tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN
343	Enable TCP auto corking :
344	When applications do consecutive small write()/sendmsg() system calls,
345	we try to coalesce these small writes as much as possible, to lower
346	total amount of sent packets. This is done if at least one prior
347	packet for the flow is waiting in Qdisc queues or device transmit
348	queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior
349	when they know how/when to uncork their sockets.
350
351	Default : 1
352
353tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
354	Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
355	More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
356	but not loaded.
357
358tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
359	The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
360	Path MTU discovery (MTU probing).  If MTU probing is enabled,
361	this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
362
363tcp_mtu_probe_floor - INTEGER
364	If MTU probing is enabled this caps the minimum MSS used for search_low
365	for the connection.
366
367	Default : 48
368
369tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER
370	TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option,
371	as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691.
372
373	If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss,
374	it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss.
375
376	Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment)
377
378tcp_congestion_control - STRING
379	Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
380	connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
381	additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
382	Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
383	For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice
384	is inherited.
385
386	[see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ]
387
388tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
389	Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
390
391tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER
392	Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail
393	losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that
394	TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below)
395
396	Possible values:
397
398		- 0 disables TLP
399		- 3 or 4 enables TLP
400
401	Default: 3
402
403tcp_ecn - INTEGER
404	Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by TCP.
405	ECN is used only when both ends of the TCP connection indicate
406	support for it.  This feature is useful in avoiding losses due
407	to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal
408	congestion before having to drop packets.
409
410	Possible values are:
411
412		=  =====================================================
413		0  Disable ECN.  Neither initiate nor accept ECN.
414		1  Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections and
415		   also request ECN on outgoing connection attempts.
416		2  Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections
417		   but do not request ECN on outgoing connections.
418		=  =====================================================
419
420	Default: 2
421
422tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN
423	If the kernel detects that ECN connection misbehaves, enable fall
424	back to non-ECN. Currently, this knob implements the fallback
425	from RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1., but we reserve that in future,
426	additional detection mechanisms could be implemented under this
427	knob. The value	is not used, if tcp_ecn or per route (or congestion
428	control) ECN settings are disabled.
429
430	Default: 1 (fallback enabled)
431
432tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
433	This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
434
435tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
436	The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any
437	application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state
438	before it is aborted at the local end.  While a perfectly
439	valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an
440	orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait
441	forever for the remote to close its end of the connection.
442
443	Cf. tcp_max_orphans
444
445	Default: 60 seconds
446
447tcp_frto - INTEGER
448	Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682.
449	F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
450	timeouts.  It is particularly beneficial in networks where the
451	RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only
452	modification. It does not require any support from the peer.
453
454	By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO.
455
456tcp_fwmark_accept - BOOLEAN
457	If set, incoming connections to listening sockets that do not have a
458	socket mark will set the mark of the accepting socket to the fwmark of
459	the incoming SYN packet. This will cause all packets on that connection
460	(starting from the first SYNACK) to be sent with that fwmark. The
461	listening socket's mark is unchanged. Listening sockets that already
462	have a fwmark set via setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_MARK, ...) are
463	unaffected.
464
465	Default: 0
466
467tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER
468	Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments
469	in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing
470	connection but that are invalid due to any of these reasons:
471
472	  (a) out-of-window sequence number,
473	  (b) out-of-window acknowledgment number, or
474	  (c) PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) check failure
475
476	This can help mitigate simple "ack loop" DoS attacks, wherein
477	a buggy or malicious middlebox or man-in-the-middle can
478	rewrite TCP header fields in manner that causes each endpoint
479	to think that the other is sending invalid TCP segments, thus
480	causing each side to send an unterminating stream of duplicate
481	acknowledgments for invalid segments.
482
483	Using 0 disables rate-limiting of dupacks in response to
484	invalid segments; otherwise this value specifies the minimal
485	space between sending such dupacks, in milliseconds.
486
487	Default: 500 (milliseconds).
488
489tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
490	How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
491	Default: 2hours.
492
493tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
494	How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
495	connection is broken. Default value: 9.
496
497tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
498	How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
499	tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
500	after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
501	will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
502
503tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
504	Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index.
505	Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work
506	across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets
507	derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in
508	which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was
509	compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
510
511	Default: 0 (disabled)
512
513tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
514	This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore.
515
516tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
517	Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
518	held by system.	If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
519	reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
520	only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
521	or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
522	(probably, after increasing installed memory),
523	if network conditions require more than default value,
524	and tune network services to linger and kill such states
525	more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
526	up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
527
528tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
529	Maximal number of remembered connection requests (SYN_RECV),
530	which have not received an acknowledgment from connecting client.
531
532	This is a per-listener limit.
533
534	The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will
535	increase in proportion to the memory of machine.
536
537	If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number.
538
539	Remember to also check /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn
540	A SYN_RECV request socket consumes about 304 bytes of memory.
541
542tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
543	Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
544	If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
545	and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
546	simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
547	but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
548	if network conditions require more than default value.
549
550tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
551	min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
552	memory appetite.
553
554	pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
555	of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
556	pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
557	under "min".
558
559	max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
560
561	Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
562	memory.
563
564tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER
565	The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT.
566	A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher)
567	minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic
568	engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT
569	inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds.
570
571	Possible values: 0 - 86400 (1 day)
572
573	Default: 300
574
575tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
576	If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
577	automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
578	match the size required by the path for full throughput.  Enabled by
579	default.
580
581tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
582	Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery.  Takes three
583	values:
584
585	- 0 - Disabled
586	- 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
587	- 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
588
589tcp_probe_interval - UNSIGNED INTEGER
590	Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
591	Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
592	per RFC4821.
593
594tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
595	Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
596	will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
597	is 8 bytes.
598
599tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
600	By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
601	when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
602	near future can use these to set initial conditions.  Usually, this
603	increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
604	degradation.  If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
605	connections.
606
607tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
608	Controls whether TCP saves ssthresh metrics in the route cache.
609
610	Default is 1, which disables ssthresh metrics.
611
612tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
613	This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
614	when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
615	See tcp_retries2 for more details.
616
617	The default value is 8.
618
619	If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
620	you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
621	may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
622
623tcp_recovery - INTEGER
624	This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery
625	features.
626
627	=========   =============================================================
628	RACK: 0x1   enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost
629		    retransmissions and tail drops. It also subsumes and disables
630		    RFC6675 recovery for SACK connections.
631
632	RACK: 0x2   makes RACK's reordering window static (min_rtt/4).
633
634	RACK: 0x4   disables RACK's DUPACK threshold heuristic
635	=========   =============================================================
636
637	Default: 0x1
638
639tcp_reflect_tos - BOOLEAN
640	For listening sockets, reuse the DSCP value of the initial SYN message
641	for outgoing packets. This allows to have both directions of a TCP
642	stream to use the same DSCP value, assuming DSCP remains unchanged for
643	the lifetime of the connection.
644
645	This options affects both IPv4 and IPv6.
646
647	Default: 0 (disabled)
648
649tcp_reordering - INTEGER
650	Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
651	TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level
652	between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering
653
654	Default: 3
655
656tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER
657	Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream.
658	300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it
659	if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode)
660
661	Default: 300
662
663tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
664	Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
665	On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
666	certain TCP stacks.
667
668tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
669	This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
670	something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
671	and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
672	See tcp_retries2 for more details.
673
674	RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
675	default.
676
677tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
678	This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
679	when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
680	Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
681	exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
682	retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
683
684	The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
685	seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
686	TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
687	hypothetical timeout.
688
689	RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
690	which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
691
692tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
693	If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
694	we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
695	assassination.
696
697	Default: 0
698
699tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
700	min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
701	It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
702	pressure.
703
704	Default: 4K
705
706	default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
707	This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
708	Default: 131072 bytes.
709	This value results in initial window of 65535.
710
711	max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
712	selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
713	net.core.rmem_max.  Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
714	automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
715	case this value is ignored.
716	Default: between 131072 and 6MB, depending on RAM size.
717
718tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
719	Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
720
721tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns - LONG INTEGER
722	TCP tries to reduce number of SACK sent, using a timer
723	based on 5% of SRTT, capped by this sysctl, in nano seconds.
724	The default is 1ms, based on TSO autosizing period.
725
726	Default : 1,000,000 ns (1 ms)
727
728tcp_comp_sack_slack_ns - LONG INTEGER
729	This sysctl control the slack used when arming the
730	timer used by SACK compression. This gives extra time
731	for small RTT flows, and reduces system overhead by allowing
732	opportunistic reduction of timer interrupts.
733
734	Default : 100,000 ns (100 us)
735
736tcp_comp_sack_nr - INTEGER
737	Max number of SACK that can be compressed.
738	Using 0 disables SACK compression.
739
740	Default : 44
741
742tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
743	If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
744	window after an idle period.  An idle period is defined at
745	the current RTO.  If unset, the congestion window will not
746	be timed out after an idle period.
747
748	Default: 1
749
750tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
751	Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
752	Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
753	Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
754
755	Default: FALSE
756
757tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
758	Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
759	be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
760	is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission
761	with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
762	for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
763
764tcp_syncookies - INTEGER
765	Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
766	Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
767	overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
768	Default: 1
769
770	Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
771	It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
772	against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
773	in your logs, but investigation	shows that they occur
774	because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
775	another parameters until this warning disappear.
776	See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
777
778	syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
779	to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
780	of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
781	but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
782	SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
783	is seriously misconfigured.
784
785	If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your
786	network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable
787	unconditionally generation of syncookies.
788
789tcp_migrate_req - BOOLEAN
790	The incoming connection is tied to a specific listening socket when
791	the initial SYN packet is received during the three-way handshake.
792	When a listener is closed, in-flight request sockets during the
793	handshake and established sockets in the accept queue are aborted.
794
795	If the listener has SO_REUSEPORT enabled, other listeners on the
796	same port should have been able to accept such connections. This
797	option makes it possible to migrate such child sockets to another
798	listener after close() or shutdown().
799
800	The BPF_SK_REUSEPORT_SELECT_OR_MIGRATE type of eBPF program should
801	usually be used to define the policy to pick an alive listener.
802	Otherwise, the kernel will randomly pick an alive listener only if
803	this option is enabled.
804
805	Note that migration between listeners with different settings may
806	crash applications. Let's say migration happens from listener A to
807	B, and only B has TCP_SAVE_SYN enabled. B cannot read SYN data from
808	the requests migrated from A. To avoid such a situation, cancel
809	migration by returning SK_DROP in the type of eBPF program, or
810	disable this option.
811
812	Default: 0
813
814tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
815	Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening
816	SYN packet.
817
818	The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client
819	then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag,
820	rather than connect() to send data in SYN.
821
822	The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then
823	either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or
824	enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with
825	the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog.
826
827	The values (bitmap) are
828
829	=====  ======== ======================================================
830	  0x1  (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client.
831	  0x2  (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in
832			a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the
833			application before 3-way handshake finishes.
834	  0x4  (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie
835			availability and without a cookie option.
836	0x200  (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present.
837	0x400  (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by
838			default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option.
839	=====  ======== ======================================================
840
841	Default: 0x1
842
843	Note that additional client or server features are only
844	effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively.
845
846tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER
847	Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets
848	when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens.
849	This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues
850	get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to
851	initial value when the blackhole issue goes away.
852	0 to disable the blackhole detection.
853
854	By default, it is set to 0 (feature is disabled).
855
856tcp_fastopen_key - list of comma separated 32-digit hexadecimal INTEGERs
857	The list consists of a primary key and an optional backup key. The
858	primary key is used for both creating and validating cookies, while the
859	optional backup key is only used for validating cookies. The purpose of
860	the backup key is to maximize TFO validation when keys are rotated.
861
862	A randomly chosen primary key may be configured by the kernel if
863	the tcp_fastopen sysctl is set to 0x400 (see above), or if the
864	TCP_FASTOPEN setsockopt() optname is set and a key has not been
865	previously configured via sysctl. If keys are configured via
866	setsockopt() by using the TCP_FASTOPEN_KEY optname, then those
867	per-socket keys will be used instead of any keys that are specified via
868	sysctl.
869
870	A key is specified as 4 8-digit hexadecimal integers which are separated
871	by a '-' as: xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx. Leading zeros may be
872	omitted. A primary and a backup key may be specified by separating them
873	by a comma. If only one key is specified, it becomes the primary key and
874	any previously configured backup keys are removed.
875
876tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
877	Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
878	will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value
879	is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission
880	with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
881	for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.
882
883tcp_timestamps - INTEGER
884	Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
885
886	- 0: Disabled.
887	- 1: Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323 and use random offset for
888	  each connection rather than only using the current time.
889	- 2: Like 1, but without random offsets.
890
891	Default: 1
892
893tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER
894	Minimal number of segments per TSO frame.
895
896	Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames,
897	depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets.
898	For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big
899	TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets
900	if available window is too small.
901
902	Default: 2
903
904tcp_tso_rtt_log - INTEGER
905	Adjustment of TSO packet sizes based on min_rtt
906
907	Starting from linux-5.18, TCP autosizing can be tweaked
908	for flows having small RTT.
909
910	Old autosizing was splitting the pacing budget to send 1024 TSO
911	per second.
912
913	tso_packet_size = sk->sk_pacing_rate / 1024;
914
915	With the new mechanism, we increase this TSO sizing using:
916
917	distance = min_rtt_usec / (2^tcp_tso_rtt_log)
918	tso_packet_size += gso_max_size >> distance;
919
920	This means that flows between very close hosts can use bigger
921	TSO packets, reducing their cpu costs.
922
923	If you want to use the old autosizing, set this sysctl to 0.
924
925	Default: 9  (2^9 = 512 usec)
926
927tcp_pacing_ss_ratio - INTEGER
928	sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
929	to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
930	If TCP is in slow start, tcp_pacing_ss_ratio is applied
931	to let TCP probe for bigger speeds, assuming cwnd can be
932	doubled every other RTT.
933
934	Default: 200
935
936tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER
937	sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied
938	to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt)
939	If TCP is in congestion avoidance phase, tcp_pacing_ca_ratio
940	is applied to conservatively probe for bigger throughput.
941
942	Default: 120
943
944tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
945	This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
946	can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
947	The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
948	building larger TSO frames.
949
950	Default: 3
951
952tcp_tw_reuse - INTEGER
953	Enable reuse of TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
954	safe from protocol viewpoint.
955
956	- 0 - disable
957	- 1 - global enable
958	- 2 - enable for loopback traffic only
959
960	It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
961	experts.
962
963	Default: 2
964
965tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
966	Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
967
968tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
969	min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
970	Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
971
972	Default: 4K
973
974	default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets.  This
975	value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
976
977	It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
978
979	Default: 16K
980
981	max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
982	send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
983	net.core.wmem_max.  Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
984	automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
985	this value is ignored.
986
987	Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
988
989tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER
990	A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue,
991	thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll()
992	reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per
993	socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will
994	also not add new buffers if the limit is hit.
995
996	This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for
997	sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change
998	to the global variable has immediate effect.
999
1000	Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF)
1001
1002tcp_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
1010tcp_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
1023tcp_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
1035tcp_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
1043tcp_ehash_entries - INTEGER
1044	Show the number of hash buckets for TCP sockets in the current
1045	networking namespace.
1046
1047	A negative value means the networking namespace does not own its
1048	hash buckets and shares the initial networking namespace's one.
1049
1050tcp_child_ehash_entries - INTEGER
1051	Control the number of hash buckets for TCP sockets in the child
1052	networking namespace, which must be set before clone() or unshare().
1053
1054	If the value is not 0, the kernel uses a value rounded up to 2^n
1055	as the actual hash bucket size.  0 is a special value, meaning
1056	the child networking namespace will share the initial networking
1057	namespace's hash buckets.
1058
1059	Note that the child will use the global one in case the kernel
1060	fails to allocate enough memory.  In addition, the global hash
1061	buckets are spread over available NUMA nodes, but the allocation
1062	of the child hash table depends on the current process's NUMA
1063	policy, which could result in performance differences.
1064
1065	Note also that the default value of tcp_max_tw_buckets and
1066	tcp_max_syn_backlog depend on the hash bucket size.
1067
1068	Possible values: 0, 2^n (n: 0 - 24 (16Mi))
1069
1070	Default: 0
1071
1072UDP variables
1073=============
1074
1075udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
1076	Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
1077	across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
1078	being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
1079	originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
1080	CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
1081
1082	Default: 0 (disabled)
1083
1084udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
1085	Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
1086
1087	min: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
1088
1089	pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
1090
1091	max: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
1092
1093	Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
1094
1095udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
1096	Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
1097	Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
1098	total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
1099
1100	Default: 4K
1101
1102udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
1103	UDP does not have tx memory accounting and this tunable has no effect.
1104
1105RAW variables
1106=============
1107
1108raw_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
1109	Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work
1110	across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of
1111	being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they
1112	originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with
1113	CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
1114
1115	Default: 1 (enabled)
1116
1117CIPSOv4 Variables
1118=================
1119
1120cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
1121	If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
1122	cache.  If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
1123	miss.  However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
1124	invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
1125	off and the cache will always be "safe".
1126
1127	Default: 1
1128
1129cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
1130	The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
1131	hash bucket containing a number of cache entries.  This variable limits
1132	the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value is, the
1133	more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached.  When the number of
1134	entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
1135	causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
1136
1137	Default: 10
1138
1139cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
1140	Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
1141	the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
1142	This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
1143	categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
1144
1145	Default: 0
1146
1147cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
1148	If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
1149	ip_options_compile() is called.  If unset, relax the checks done during
1150	ip_options_compile().  Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
1151	where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
1152	result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
1153	with other implementations that require strict checking.
1154
1155	Default: 0
1156
1157IP Variables
1158============
1159
1160ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
1161	Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
1162	choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
1163	second the last local port number.
1164	If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity
1165	(one even and one odd value).
1166	Must be greater than or equal to ip_unprivileged_port_start.
1167	The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively.
1168
1169ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
1170	Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party
1171	applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port
1172	assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port
1173	number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged.
1174
1175	The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
1176	list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and
1177	10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved
1178	ports and update the current list with the one given in the
1179	input.
1180
1181	Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports
1182	settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel
1183	when determining which ports are available for automatic port
1184	assignments.
1185
1186	You can reserve ports which are not in the current
1187	ip_local_port_range, e.g.::
1188
1189	    $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
1190	    32000	60999
1191	    $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports
1192	    8080,9148
1193
1194	although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful
1195	if later the port range is changed to a value that will
1196	include the reserved ports. Also keep in mind, that overlapping
1197	of these ranges may affect probability of selecting ephemeral
1198	ports which are right after block of reserved ports.
1199
1200	Default: Empty
1201
1202ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER
1203	This is a per-namespace sysctl.  It defines the first
1204	unprivileged port in the network namespace.  Privileged ports
1205	require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them.
1206	To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0.  They must not
1207	overlap with the ip_local_port_range.
1208
1209	Default: 1024
1210
1211ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
1212	If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
1213	which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
1214
1215	Default: 0
1216
1217ip_autobind_reuse - BOOLEAN
1218	By default, bind() does not select the ports automatically even if
1219	the new socket and all sockets bound to the port have SO_REUSEADDR.
1220	ip_autobind_reuse allows bind() to reuse the port and this is useful
1221	when you use bind()+connect(), but may break some applications.
1222	The preferred solution is to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT and this
1223	option should only be set by experts.
1224	Default: 0
1225
1226ip_dynaddr - INTEGER
1227	If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
1228	If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
1229	message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
1230	occurs.
1231
1232	Default: 0
1233
1234ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN
1235	Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for
1236	certain kinds of local sockets.  Currently we only do this
1237	for established TCP and connected UDP sockets.
1238
1239	It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that
1240	reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it.
1241
1242	Default: 1
1243
1244ping_group_range - 2 INTEGERS
1245	Restrict ICMP_PROTO datagram sockets to users in the group range.
1246	The default is "1 0", meaning, that nobody (not even root) may
1247	create ping sockets.  Setting it to "100 100" would grant permissions
1248	to the single group. "0 4294967295" would enable it for the world, "100
1249	4294967295" would enable it for the users, but not daemons.
1250
1251tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
1252	Enable early demux for established TCP sockets.
1253
1254	Default: 1
1255
1256udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN
1257	Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if
1258	your system could experience more unconnected load.
1259
1260	Default: 1
1261
1262icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
1263	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
1264	requests sent to it.
1265
1266	Default: 0
1267
1268icmp_echo_enable_probe - BOOLEAN
1269        If set to one, then the kernel will respond to RFC 8335 PROBE
1270        requests sent to it.
1271
1272        Default: 0
1273
1274icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
1275	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
1276	TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
1277
1278	Default: 1
1279
1280icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
1281	Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
1282	icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
1283	0 to disable any limiting,
1284	otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1285	Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number
1286	of ICMP packets	sent on all targets.
1287
1288	Default: 1000
1289
1290icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER
1291	Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host.
1292	Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are
1293	controlled by this limit. For security reasons, the precise count
1294	of messages per second is randomized.
1295
1296	Default: 1000
1297
1298icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER
1299	icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second,
1300	while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets.
1301	For security reasons, the precise burst size is randomized.
1302
1303	Default: 50
1304
1305icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
1306	Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
1307
1308	Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
1309
1310	Default mask:     0000001100000011000 (6168)
1311
1312	Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
1313
1314		= =========================
1315		0 Echo Reply
1316		3 Destination Unreachable [1]_
1317		4 Source Quench [1]_
1318		5 Redirect
1319		8 Echo Request
1320		B Time Exceeded [1]_
1321		C Parameter Problem [1]_
1322		D Timestamp Request
1323		E Timestamp Reply
1324		F Info Request
1325		G Info Reply
1326		H Address Mask Request
1327		I Address Mask Reply
1328		= =========================
1329
1330	.. [1] These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
1331
1332icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
1333	Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
1334	frames.  Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
1335	If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
1336	will avoid log file clutter.
1337
1338	Default: 1
1339
1340icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
1341
1342	If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
1343	the exiting interface.
1344
1345	If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
1346	the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
1347	This is the behaviour many network administrators will expect from
1348	a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
1349	much easier.
1350
1351	Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
1352	then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
1353	has one will be used regardless of this setting.
1354
1355	Default: 0
1356
1357igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
1358	Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
1359	Default: 20
1360
1361	Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership
1362	report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple
1363	datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't
1364	intend to).
1365
1366	The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group
1367	report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes.
1368
1369	M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record))
1370
1371	Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes.
1372	So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than:
1373
1374	(65536-24) / 12 = 5459
1375
1376	The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice
1377	this number may be lower.
1378
1379igmp_max_msf - INTEGER
1380	Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a
1381	multicast group.
1382
1383	Default: 10
1384
1385igmp_qrv - INTEGER
1386	Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1).
1387
1388	Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1)
1389
1390	Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1391
1392force_igmp_version - INTEGER
1393	- 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback
1394	  allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier
1395	  Present timer expires.
1396	- 1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if
1397	  receive IGMPv2/v3 query.
1398	- 2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive
1399	  IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query.
1400	- 3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0.
1401
1402	.. note::
1403
1404	   this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376
1405	   Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could
1406	   ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make
1407	   this value as default 0 is recommended.
1408
1409``conf/interface/*``
1410	changes special settings per interface (where
1411	interface" is the name of your network interface)
1412
1413``conf/all/*``
1414	  is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
1415
1416log_martians - BOOLEAN
1417	Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
1418	log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1419	conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
1420	it will be disabled otherwise
1421
1422accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1423	Accept ICMP redirect messages.
1424	accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
1425
1426	- both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
1427	  forwarding for the interface is enabled
1428
1429	or
1430
1431	- at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
1432	  case forwarding for the interface is disabled
1433
1434	accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
1435
1436	default:
1437
1438		- TRUE (host)
1439		- FALSE (router)
1440
1441forwarding - BOOLEAN
1442	Enable IP forwarding on this interface.  This controls whether packets
1443	received _on_ this interface can be forwarded.
1444
1445mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
1446	Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
1447	and a multicast routing daemon is required.
1448	conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
1449	routing	for the interface
1450
1451medium_id - INTEGER
1452	Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
1453	are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
1454	the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
1455	The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
1456	to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
1457
1458	Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
1459	the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
1460	two devices attached to different media.
1461
1462proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
1463	Do proxy arp.
1464
1465	proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1466	conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
1467	it will be disabled otherwise
1468
1469proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
1470	Private VLAN proxy arp.
1471
1472	Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
1473	(from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
1474
1475	This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
1476	3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
1477	communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
1478	the upstream router.  As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
1479	to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
1480	router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
1481	proxy_arp.
1482
1483	This technology is known by different names:
1484
1485	  In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
1486	  Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
1487	  Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
1488	  Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
1489
1490shared_media - BOOLEAN
1491	Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
1492	Overrides secure_redirects.
1493
1494	shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1495	conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
1496	it will be disabled otherwise
1497
1498	default TRUE
1499
1500secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
1501	Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the
1502	interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect
1503	rules still apply.
1504
1505	Overridden by shared_media.
1506
1507	secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1508	conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
1509	it will be disabled otherwise
1510
1511	default TRUE
1512
1513send_redirects - BOOLEAN
1514	Send redirects, if router.
1515
1516	send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1517	conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
1518	it will be disabled otherwise
1519
1520	Default: TRUE
1521
1522bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
1523	Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
1524	not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
1525	BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
1526	conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
1527	for the interface
1528
1529	default FALSE
1530
1531	Not Implemented Yet.
1532
1533accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
1534	Accept packets with SRR option.
1535	conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
1536	with SRR option on the interface
1537
1538	default
1539
1540		- TRUE (router)
1541		- FALSE (host)
1542
1543accept_local - BOOLEAN
1544	Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
1545	suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
1546	local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
1547	default FALSE
1548
1549route_localnet - BOOLEAN
1550	Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination
1551	while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes.
1552
1553	default FALSE
1554
1555rp_filter - INTEGER
1556	- 0 - No source validation.
1557	- 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
1558	  Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
1559	  is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
1560	  By default failed packets are discarded.
1561	- 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
1562	  Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
1563	  and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
1564	  the packet check will fail.
1565
1566	Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
1567	to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
1568	or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
1569
1570	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
1571	when doing source validation on the {interface}.
1572
1573	Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
1574	in startup scripts.
1575
1576src_valid_mark - BOOLEAN
1577	- 0 - The fwmark of the packet is not included in reverse path
1578	  route lookup.  This allows for asymmetric routing configurations
1579	  utilizing the fwmark in only one direction, e.g., transparent
1580	  proxying.
1581
1582	- 1 - The fwmark of the packet is included in reverse path route
1583	  lookup.  This permits rp_filter to function when the fwmark is
1584	  used for routing traffic in both directions.
1585
1586	This setting also affects the utilization of fmwark when
1587	performing source address selection for ICMP replies, or
1588	determining addresses stored for the IPOPT_TS_TSANDADDR and
1589	IPOPT_RR IP options.
1590
1591	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/src_valid_mark is used.
1592
1593	Default value is 0.
1594
1595arp_filter - BOOLEAN
1596	- 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
1597	  subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
1598	  based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
1599	  the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
1600	  based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
1601	  of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
1602
1603	- 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
1604	  from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
1605	  sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
1606	  IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
1607	  particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
1608	  balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
1609
1610	arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
1611	conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
1612	it will be disabled otherwise
1613
1614arp_announce - INTEGER
1615	Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
1616	source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
1617	interface:
1618
1619	- 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
1620	- 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
1621	  subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
1622	  hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
1623	  address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
1624	  configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
1625	  request we will check all our subnets that include the
1626	  target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
1627	  such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
1628	  address according to the rules for level 2.
1629	- 2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
1630	  In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
1631	  and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
1632	  the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
1633	  for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
1634	  interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
1635	  local address is found we select the first local address
1636	  we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
1637	  with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
1638	  even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
1639
1640	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
1641
1642	Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
1643	receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
1644	the level announces more valid sender's information.
1645
1646arp_ignore - INTEGER
1647	Define different modes for sending replies in response to
1648	received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
1649
1650	- 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
1651	  on any interface
1652	- 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1653	  configured on the incoming interface
1654	- 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
1655	  configured on the incoming interface and both with the
1656	  sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
1657	- 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
1658	  only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
1659	- 4-7 - reserved
1660	- 8 - do not reply for all local addresses
1661
1662	The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
1663	when ARP request is received on the {interface}
1664
1665arp_notify - BOOLEAN
1666	Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
1667
1668	 ==  ==========================================================
1669	  0  (default): do nothing
1670	  1  Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up
1671	     or hardware address changes.
1672	 ==  ==========================================================
1673
1674arp_accept - INTEGER
1675	Define behavior for accepting gratuitous ARP (garp) frames from devices
1676	that are not already present in the ARP table:
1677
1678	- 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
1679	- 1 - create new entries in the ARP table
1680	- 2 - create new entries only if the source IP address is in the same
1681	  subnet as an address configured on the interface that received the
1682	  garp message.
1683
1684	Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
1685	ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
1686
1687	If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
1688	gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
1689	if this setting is on or off.
1690
1691arp_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN
1692	Clears the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events. This option is important for
1693	wireless devices where the ARP cache should not be cleared when roaming
1694	between access points on the same network. In most cases this should
1695	remain as the default (1).
1696
1697	- 1 - (default): Clear the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events
1698	- 0 - Do not clear ARP cache on NOCARRIER events
1699
1700mcast_solicit - INTEGER
1701	The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state,
1702	when the associated hardware address is unknown.  Defaults
1703	to 3.
1704
1705ucast_solicit - INTEGER
1706	The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when
1707	the hardware address is being reconfirmed.  Defaults to 3.
1708
1709app_solicit - INTEGER
1710	The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
1711	via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
1712	mcast_resolicit).  Defaults to 0.
1713
1714mcast_resolicit - INTEGER
1715	The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and
1716	app probes in PROBE state.  Defaults to 0.
1717
1718disable_policy - BOOLEAN
1719	Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
1720
1721disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
1722	Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
1723
1724igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1725	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1726	IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place.
1727
1728	Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
1729
1730igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
1731	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
1732	IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place.
1733
1734	Default: 1000 (1 seconds)
1735
1736ignore_routes_with_linkdown - BOOLEAN
1737        Ignore routes whose link is down when performing a FIB lookup.
1738
1739promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN
1740	When a primary IP address is removed from this interface
1741	promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of
1742	removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses.
1743
1744drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
1745	Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer
1746	multicast (or broadcast) frames.
1747
1748	This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC
1749	1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons.
1750
1751	Default: off (0)
1752
1753drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN
1754	Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known
1755	good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
1756	(or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
1757
1758	Default: off (0)
1759
1760
1761tag - INTEGER
1762	Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
1763
1764	Default value is 0.
1765
1766xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER
1767	(Obsolete since linux-4.14)
1768	The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4
1769	destination cache entries.  At twice this value the system will
1770	refuse new allocations.
1771
1772igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN
1773	Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the
1774	224.0.0.X range.
1775
1776	Default TRUE
1777
1778Alexey Kuznetsov.
1779kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
1780
1781Updated by:
1782
1783- Andi Kleen
1784  ak@muc.de
1785- Nicolas Delon
1786  delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr
1787
1788
1789
1790
1791/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables
1792==============================
1793
1794IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*.  tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
1795apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
1796
1797bindv6only - BOOLEAN
1798	Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
1799	which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
1800	only.
1801
1802		- TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
1803		- FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
1804
1805	Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493)
1806
1807flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN
1808	Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label.
1809	You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the
1810	flow label manager.
1811
1812	- TRUE: enabled
1813	- FALSE: disabled
1814
1815	Default: TRUE
1816
1817auto_flowlabels - INTEGER
1818	Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the
1819	packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to
1820	identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath
1821	Routing (see RFC 6438).
1822
1823	=  ===========================================================
1824	0  automatic flow labels are completely disabled
1825	1  automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be
1826	   disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL
1827	   socket option
1828	2  automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a
1829	   per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option
1830	3  automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot
1831	   be disabled by the socket option
1832	=  ===========================================================
1833
1834	Default: 1
1835
1836flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN
1837	Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is
1838	reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF
1839	is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437.
1840
1841	- TRUE: enabled
1842	- FALSE: disabled
1843
1844	Default: true
1845
1846flowlabel_reflect - INTEGER
1847	Control flow label reflection. Needed for Path MTU
1848	Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast
1849	environments. See RFC 7690 and:
1850	https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01
1851
1852	This is a bitmask.
1853
1854	- 1: enabled for established flows
1855
1856	  Note that this prevents automatic flowlabel changes, as done
1857	  in "tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission"
1858	  and "tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit"
1859
1860	- 2: enabled for TCP RESET packets (no active listener)
1861	  If set, a RST packet sent in response to a SYN packet on a closed
1862	  port will reflect the incoming flow label.
1863
1864	- 4: enabled for ICMPv6 echo reply messages.
1865
1866	Default: 0
1867
1868fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER
1869	Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes.
1870
1871	Default: 0 (Layer 3)
1872
1873	Possible values:
1874
1875	- 0 - Layer 3 (source and destination addresses plus flow label)
1876	- 1 - Layer 4 (standard 5-tuple)
1877	- 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present
1878	- 3 - Custom multipath hash. Fields used for multipath hash calculation
1879	  are determined by fib_multipath_hash_fields sysctl
1880
1881fib_multipath_hash_fields - UNSIGNED INTEGER
1882	When fib_multipath_hash_policy is set to 3 (custom multipath hash), the
1883	fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by this
1884	sysctl.
1885
1886	This value is a bitmask which enables various fields for multipath hash
1887	calculation.
1888
1889	Possible fields are:
1890
1891	====== ============================
1892	0x0001 Source IP address
1893	0x0002 Destination IP address
1894	0x0004 IP protocol
1895	0x0008 Flow Label
1896	0x0010 Source port
1897	0x0020 Destination port
1898	0x0040 Inner source IP address
1899	0x0080 Inner destination IP address
1900	0x0100 Inner IP protocol
1901	0x0200 Inner Flow Label
1902	0x0400 Inner source port
1903	0x0800 Inner destination port
1904	====== ============================
1905
1906	Default: 0x0007 (source IP, destination IP and IP protocol)
1907
1908anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN
1909	Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6
1910	echo reply
1911
1912	- TRUE:  enabled
1913	- FALSE: disabled
1914
1915	Default: FALSE
1916
1917idgen_delay - INTEGER
1918	Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry
1919	privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is
1920	detected.
1921
1922	Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217)
1923
1924idgen_retries - INTEGER
1925	Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy
1926	address if a DAD conflict is detected.
1927
1928	Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217)
1929
1930mld_qrv - INTEGER
1931	Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1).
1932
1933	Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1)
1934
1935	Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5)
1936
1937max_dst_opts_number - INTEGER
1938	Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Destination
1939	options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1940	then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1941	TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1942
1943	Default: 8
1944
1945max_hbh_opts_number - INTEGER
1946	Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Hop-by-Hop
1947	options extension header. If this value is less than zero
1948	then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known
1949	TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number.
1950
1951	Default: 8
1952
1953max_dst_opts_length - INTEGER
1954	Maximum length allowed for a Destination options extension
1955	header.
1956
1957	Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1958
1959max_hbh_length - INTEGER
1960	Maximum length allowed for a Hop-by-Hop options extension
1961	header.
1962
1963	Default: INT_MAX (unlimited)
1964
1965skip_notify_on_dev_down - BOOLEAN
1966	Controls whether an RTM_DELROUTE message is generated for routes
1967	removed when a device is taken down or deleted. IPv4 does not
1968	generate this message; IPv6 does by default. Setting this sysctl
1969	to true skips the message, making IPv4 and IPv6 on par in relying
1970	on userspace caches to track link events and evict routes.
1971
1972	Default: false (generate message)
1973
1974nexthop_compat_mode - BOOLEAN
1975	New nexthop API provides a means for managing nexthops independent of
1976	prefixes. Backwards compatibilty with old route format is enabled by
1977	default which means route dumps and notifications contain the new
1978	nexthop attribute but also the full, expanded nexthop definition.
1979	Further, updates or deletes of a nexthop configuration generate route
1980	notifications for each fib entry using the nexthop. Once a system
1981	understands the new API, this sysctl can be disabled to achieve full
1982	performance benefits of the new API by disabling the nexthop expansion
1983	and extraneous notifications.
1984	Default: true (backward compat mode)
1985
1986fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER
1987        Whether to emit RTM_NEWROUTE notifications whenever RTM_F_OFFLOAD/
1988        RTM_F_TRAP/RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flags are changed.
1989
1990        After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an
1991        acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel,
1992        but not necessarily in hardware.
1993        It is also possible for a route already installed in hardware to change
1994        its action and therefore its flags. For example, a host route that is
1995        trapping packets can be "promoted" to perform decapsulation following
1996        the installation of an IPinIP/VXLAN tunnel.
1997        The notifications will indicate to user-space the state of the route.
1998
1999        Default: 0 (Do not emit notifications.)
2000
2001        Possible values:
2002
2003        - 0 - Do not emit notifications.
2004        - 1 - Emit notifications.
2005        - 2 - Emit notifications only for RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag change.
2006
2007ioam6_id - INTEGER
2008        Define the IOAM id of this node. Uses only 24 bits out of 32 in total.
2009
2010        Min: 0
2011        Max: 0xFFFFFF
2012
2013        Default: 0xFFFFFF
2014
2015ioam6_id_wide - LONG INTEGER
2016        Define the wide IOAM id of this node. Uses only 56 bits out of 64 in
2017        total. Can be different from ioam6_id.
2018
2019        Min: 0
2020        Max: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
2021
2022        Default: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
2023
2024IPv6 Fragmentation:
2025
2026ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
2027	Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
2028	ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
2029	the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
2030	is reached.
2031
2032ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
2033	See ip6frag_high_thresh
2034
2035ip6frag_time - INTEGER
2036	Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
2037
2038``conf/default/*``:
2039	Change the interface-specific default settings.
2040
2041	These settings would be used during creating new interfaces.
2042
2043
2044``conf/all/*``:
2045	Change all the interface-specific settings.
2046
2047	[XXX:  Other special features than forwarding?]
2048
2049conf/all/disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
2050	Changing this value is same as changing ``conf/default/disable_ipv6``
2051	setting and also all per-interface ``disable_ipv6`` settings to the same
2052	value.
2053
2054	Reading this value does not have any particular meaning. It does not say
2055	whether IPv6 support is enabled or disabled. Returned value can be 1
2056	also in the case when some interface has ``disable_ipv6`` set to 0 and
2057	has configured IPv6 addresses.
2058
2059conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
2060	Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
2061
2062	IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
2063	to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
2064
2065	This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
2066	'forwarding' to the specified value.  See below for details.
2067
2068	This referred to as global forwarding.
2069
2070proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
2071	Do proxy ndp.
2072
2073fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
2074	Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not
2075	associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies).
2076	If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the
2077	fwmark of the packet they are replying to.
2078
2079	Default: 0
2080
2081``conf/interface/*``:
2082	Change special settings per interface.
2083
2084	The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
2085	depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
2086
2087accept_ra - INTEGER
2088	Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
2089
2090	It also determines whether or not to transmit Router
2091	Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to
2092	accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be
2093	transmitted.
2094
2095	Possible values are:
2096
2097		==  ===========================================================
2098		 0  Do not accept Router Advertisements.
2099		 1  Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled.
2100		 2  Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements
2101		    even if forwarding is enabled.
2102		==  ===========================================================
2103
2104	Functional default:
2105
2106		- enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
2107		- disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
2108
2109accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
2110	Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
2111
2112	Functional default:
2113
2114		- enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2115		- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2116
2117ra_defrtr_metric - UNSIGNED INTEGER
2118	Route metric for default route learned in Router Advertisement. This value
2119	will be assigned as metric for the default route learned via IPv6 Router
2120	Advertisement. Takes affect only if accept_ra_defrtr is enabled.
2121
2122	Possible values:
2123		1 to 0xFFFFFFFF
2124
2125		Default: IP6_RT_PRIO_USER i.e. 1024.
2126
2127accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN
2128	Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine
2129	if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted.
2130
2131	Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended
2132	network loop.
2133
2134	Functional default:
2135
2136	   - enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled
2137	     on a specific interface.
2138	   - disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled
2139	     on a specific interface.
2140
2141accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER
2142	Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement.
2143
2144	Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this
2145	variable shall be ignored.
2146
2147	Default: 1
2148
2149accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
2150	Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
2151
2152	Functional default:
2153
2154		- enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2155		- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2156
2157accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER
2158	Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
2159
2160	Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall
2161	be ignored.
2162
2163	Functional default:
2164
2165		* 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
2166		* -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
2167
2168accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
2169	Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
2170
2171	Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall
2172	be ignored.
2173
2174	Functional default:
2175
2176		* 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
2177		* -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
2178
2179accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
2180	Accept Router Preference in RA.
2181
2182	Functional default:
2183
2184		- enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2185		- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2186
2187accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
2188	Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
2189	disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
2190
2191	Functional default:
2192
2193		- enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
2194		- disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
2195
2196accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
2197	Accept Redirects.
2198
2199	Functional default:
2200
2201		- enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
2202		- disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
2203
2204accept_source_route - INTEGER
2205	Accept source routing (routing extension header).
2206
2207	- >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
2208	- < 0: Do not accept routing header.
2209
2210	Default: 0
2211
2212autoconf - BOOLEAN
2213	Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
2214	Advertisements.
2215
2216	Functional default:
2217
2218		- enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
2219		- disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
2220
2221dad_transmits - INTEGER
2222	The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
2223
2224	Default: 1
2225
2226forwarding - INTEGER
2227	Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
2228
2229	.. note::
2230
2231	   It is recommended to have the same setting on all
2232	   interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
2233
2234	Possible values are:
2235
2236		- 0 Forwarding disabled
2237		- 1 Forwarding enabled
2238
2239	**FALSE (0)**:
2240
2241	By default, Host behaviour is assumed.  This means:
2242
2243	1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
2244	2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router
2245	   Solicitations.
2246	3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
2247	   Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
2248	4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
2249
2250	**TRUE (1)**:
2251
2252	If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
2253	This means exactly the reverse from the above:
2254
2255	1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
2256	2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2.
2257	3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2.
2258	4. Redirects are ignored.
2259
2260	Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default),
2261	otherwise 1 (enabled).
2262
2263hop_limit - INTEGER
2264	Default Hop Limit to set.
2265
2266	Default: 64
2267
2268mtu - INTEGER
2269	Default Maximum Transfer Unit
2270
2271	Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
2272
2273ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
2274	If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses,
2275	which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
2276
2277	Default: 0
2278
2279router_probe_interval - INTEGER
2280	Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
2281	in RFC4191.
2282
2283	Default: 60
2284
2285router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
2286	Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
2287	before sending Router Solicitations.
2288
2289	Default: 1
2290
2291router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
2292	Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
2293
2294	Default: 4
2295
2296router_solicitations - INTEGER
2297	Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
2298	routers are present.
2299
2300	Default: 3
2301
2302use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN
2303	When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations
2304	routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses
2305	configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4).
2306
2307	Default: false
2308
2309use_tempaddr - INTEGER
2310	Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
2311
2312	  * <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
2313	  * == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
2314	    addresses over temporary addresses.
2315	  * >  1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
2316	    addresses over public addresses.
2317
2318	Default:
2319
2320		* 0 (for most devices)
2321		* -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
2322
2323temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
2324	valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
2325
2326	Default: 172800 (2 days)
2327
2328temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
2329	Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
2330
2331	Default: 86400 (1 day)
2332
2333keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER
2334	Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static
2335	global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed.
2336
2337	*   >0 : enabled
2338	*    0 : system default
2339	*   <0 : disabled
2340
2341	Default: 0 (addresses are removed)
2342
2343max_desync_factor - INTEGER
2344	Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
2345	that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
2346	other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
2347	value is in seconds.
2348
2349	Default: 600
2350
2351regen_max_retry - INTEGER
2352	Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
2353	valid temporary addresses.
2354
2355	Default: 5
2356
2357max_addresses - INTEGER
2358	Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface.  Setting
2359	to zero disables the limitation.  It is not recommended to set this
2360	value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
2361	crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
2362
2363	Default: 16
2364
2365disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
2366	Disable IPv6 operation.  If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
2367	will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
2368	address.
2369
2370	Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
2371
2372	When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
2373	it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
2374	interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
2375
2376	When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
2377	it will dynamically delete all addresses and routes on the given
2378	interface. From now on it will not possible to add addresses/routes
2379	to the selected interface.
2380
2381accept_dad - INTEGER
2382	Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
2383
2384	 == ==============================================================
2385	  0  Disable DAD
2386	  1  Enable DAD (default)
2387	  2  Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
2388	     link-local address has been found.
2389	 == ==============================================================
2390
2391	DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according
2392	to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad.
2393
2394force_tllao - BOOLEAN
2395	Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
2396	responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
2397
2398	Default: FALSE
2399
2400	Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
2401
2402	"The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
2403	avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
2404	does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
2405	message.  When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
2406	omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
2407	layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
2408	solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
2409	address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
2410	race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
2411	prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
2412
2413ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN
2414	Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
2415
2416	* 0 - (default): do nothing
2417	* 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought
2418	  up or hardware address changes.
2419
2420ndisc_tclass - INTEGER
2421	The IPv6 Traffic Class to use by default when sending IPv6 Neighbor
2422	Discovery (Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor
2423	Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, Redirect) messages.
2424	These 8 bits can be interpreted as 6 high order bits holding the DSCP
2425	value and 2 low order bits representing ECN (which you probably want
2426	to leave cleared).
2427
2428	* 0 - (default)
2429
2430ndisc_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN
2431	Clears the neighbor discovery table on NOCARRIER events. This option is
2432	important for wireless devices where the neighbor discovery cache should
2433	not be cleared when roaming between access points on the same network.
2434	In most cases this should remain as the default (1).
2435
2436	- 1 - (default): Clear neighbor discover cache on NOCARRIER events.
2437	- 0 - Do not clear neighbor discovery cache on NOCARRIER events.
2438
2439mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
2440	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
2441	MLDv1 report retransmit will take place.
2442
2443	Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
2444
2445mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER
2446	The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited
2447	MLDv2 report retransmit will take place.
2448
2449	Default: 1000 (1 second)
2450
2451force_mld_version - INTEGER
2452	* 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed
2453	* 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1
2454	* 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2
2455
2456suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER
2457	Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation
2458	with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior:
2459
2460	* 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets
2461	* 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets
2462
2463optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN
2464	Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429).
2465
2466	* 0: disabled (default)
2467	* 1: enabled
2468
2469	Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled
2470	if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1,
2471	it will be disabled otherwise.
2472
2473use_optimistic - BOOLEAN
2474	If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during
2475	source address selection.  Preferred addresses will still be chosen
2476	before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source
2477	address selection algorithm.
2478
2479	* 0: disabled (default)
2480	* 1: enabled
2481
2482	This will be enabled if at least one of
2483	conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise.
2484
2485stable_secret - IPv6 address
2486	This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6
2487	addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured
2488	ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will
2489	be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the
2490	addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the
2491	secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can
2492	overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused.
2493
2494	It is recommended to generate this secret during installation
2495	of a system and keep it stable after that.
2496
2497	By default the stable secret is unset.
2498
2499addr_gen_mode - INTEGER
2500	Defines how link-local and autoconf addresses are generated.
2501
2502	=  =================================================================
2503	0  generate address based on EUI64 (default)
2504	1  do no generate a link-local address, use EUI64 for addresses
2505	   generated from autoconf
2506	2  generate stable privacy addresses, using the secret from
2507	   stable_secret (RFC7217)
2508	3  generate stable privacy addresses, using a random secret if unset
2509	=  =================================================================
2510
2511drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN
2512	Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer
2513	multicast (or broadcast) frames.
2514
2515	By default this is turned off.
2516
2517drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN
2518	Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's
2519	a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used
2520	(or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.)
2521
2522	By default this is turned off.
2523
2524accept_untracked_na - INTEGER
2525	Define behavior for accepting neighbor advertisements from devices that
2526	are absent in the neighbor cache:
2527
2528	- 0 - (default) Do not accept unsolicited and untracked neighbor
2529	  advertisements.
2530
2531	- 1 - Add a new neighbor cache entry in STALE state for routers on
2532	  receiving a neighbor advertisement (either solicited or unsolicited)
2533	  with target link-layer address option specified if no neighbor entry
2534	  is already present for the advertised IPv6 address. Without this knob,
2535	  NAs received for untracked addresses (absent in neighbor cache) are
2536	  silently ignored.
2537
2538	  This is as per router-side behavior documented in RFC9131.
2539
2540	  This has lower precedence than drop_unsolicited_na.
2541
2542	  This will optimize the return path for the initial off-link
2543	  communication that is initiated by a directly connected host, by
2544	  ensuring that the first-hop router which turns on this setting doesn't
2545	  have to buffer the initial return packets to do neighbor-solicitation.
2546	  The prerequisite is that the host is configured to send unsolicited
2547	  neighbor advertisements on interface bringup. This setting should be
2548	  used in conjunction with the ndisc_notify setting on the host to
2549	  satisfy this prerequisite.
2550
2551	- 2 - Extend option (1) to add a new neighbor cache entry only if the
2552	  source IP address is in the same subnet as an address configured on
2553	  the interface that received the neighbor advertisement.
2554
2555enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN
2556	Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for
2557	duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal
2558	a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false
2559	detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send.
2560	The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of
2561	conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE.
2562
2563	Default: TRUE
2564
2565``icmp/*``:
2566===========
2567
2568ratelimit - INTEGER
2569	Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 messages.
2570
2571	0 to disable any limiting,
2572	otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
2573
2574	Default: 1000
2575
2576ratemask - list of comma separated ranges
2577	For ICMPv6 message types matching the ranges in the ratemask, limit
2578	the sending of the message according to ratelimit parameter.
2579
2580	The format used for both input and output is a comma separated
2581	list of ranges (e.g. "0-127,129" for ICMPv6 message type 0 to 127 and
2582	129). Writing to the file will clear all previous ranges of ICMPv6
2583	message types and update the current list with the input.
2584
2585	Refer to: https://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters/icmpv6-parameters.xhtml
2586	for numerical values of ICMPv6 message types, e.g. echo request is 128
2587	and echo reply is 129.
2588
2589	Default: 0-1,3-127 (rate limit ICMPv6 errors except Packet Too Big)
2590
2591echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
2592	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2593	requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol.
2594
2595	Default: 0
2596
2597echo_ignore_multicast - BOOLEAN
2598	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2599	requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol via multicast.
2600
2601	Default: 0
2602
2603echo_ignore_anycast - BOOLEAN
2604	If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
2605	requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol destined to anycast address.
2606
2607	Default: 0
2608
2609xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER
2610	(Obsolete since linux-4.14)
2611	The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6
2612	destination cache entries.  At twice this value the system will
2613	refuse new allocations.
2614
2615
2616IPv6 Update by:
2617Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
2618YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2619
2620
2621/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
2622=================================
2623
2624bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
2625	- 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
2626	- 0 : disable this.
2627
2628	Default: 1
2629
2630bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
2631	- 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
2632	- 0 : disable this.
2633
2634	Default: 1
2635
2636bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
2637	- 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
2638	- 0 : disable this.
2639
2640	Default: 1
2641
2642bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
2643	- 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
2644	- 0 : disable this.
2645
2646	Default: 0
2647
2648bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
2649	- 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
2650	- 0 : disable this.
2651
2652	Default: 0
2653
2654bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN
2655	- 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan
2656	  interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the
2657	  vlan. This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the
2658	  REDIRECT target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces.  When no
2659	  matching vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input
2660	  device is set to the bridge interface.
2661
2662	- 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup.
2663
2664	Default: 0
2665
2666``proc/sys/net/sctp/*`` Variables:
2667==================================
2668
2669addip_enable - BOOLEAN
2670	Enable or disable extension of  Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2671	(ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061.  This extension provides
2672	the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
2673	associations.
2674
2675	1: Enable extension.
2676
2677	0: Disable extension.
2678
2679	Default: 0
2680
2681pf_enable - INTEGER
2682	Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value
2683	of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of
2684	both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state.
2685	Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace
2686	application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of
2687	pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans
2688	or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is
2689	enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable
2690	and disable pf state. See:
2691	https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for
2692	details.
2693
2694	1: Enable pf.
2695
2696	0: Disable pf.
2697
2698	Default: 1
2699
2700pf_expose - INTEGER
2701	Unset or enable/disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state
2702	exposure.  Applications can control the exposure of the PF path state
2703	in the SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event and the SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO
2704	sockopt.   When it's unset, no SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event with
2705	SCTP_ADDR_PF state will be sent and a SCTP_PF-state transport info
2706	can be got via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt;  When it's enabled,
2707	a SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent for a transport becoming
2708	SCTP_PF state and a SCTP_PF-state transport info can be got via
2709	SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt;  When it's diabled, no
2710	SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent and it returns -EACCES when
2711	trying to get a SCTP_PF-state transport info via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO
2712	sockopt.
2713
2714	0: Unset pf state exposure, Compatible with old applications.
2715
2716	1: Disable pf state exposure.
2717
2718	2: Enable pf state exposure.
2719
2720	Default: 0
2721
2722addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
2723	Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
2724	authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
2725	addresses.  This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
2726	would not be able to hijack associations.  However, older
2727	implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
2728	allowing the ADD-IP extension.  For reasons of interoperability,
2729	we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
2730	authentication requirement.
2731
2732	== ===============================================================
2733	1  Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication.  This
2734	   should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
2735	   with older implementations.
2736
2737	0  Enforce the authentication requirement
2738	== ===============================================================
2739
2740	Default: 0
2741
2742auth_enable - BOOLEAN
2743	Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension.  This extension
2744	provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
2745	required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
2746	(ADD-IP) extension.
2747
2748	- 1: Enable this extension.
2749	- 0: Disable this extension.
2750
2751	Default: 0
2752
2753prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
2754	Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
2755	is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
2756
2757	- 1: Enable extension
2758	- 0: Disable
2759
2760	Default: 1
2761
2762max_burst - INTEGER
2763	The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent.  It
2764	controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
2765
2766	Default: 4
2767
2768association_max_retrans - INTEGER
2769	Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
2770	attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable.  If this value
2771	is exceeded, the association is terminated.
2772
2773	Default: 10
2774
2775max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
2776	The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
2777	that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
2778	unreachable and terminating.
2779
2780	Default: 8
2781
2782path_max_retrans - INTEGER
2783	The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
2784	path.  Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
2785	unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
2786	association is multihomed.
2787
2788	Default: 5
2789
2790pf_retrans - INTEGER
2791	The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path
2792	before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one
2793	exist).  Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that
2794	passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used.  Its only
2795	deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack.  This
2796	setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without
2797	having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value.  See:
2798	http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt
2799	for details.  Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans
2800	disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can
2801	be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to
2802	disable pf state.
2803
2804	Default: 0
2805
2806ps_retrans - INTEGER
2807	Primary.Switchover.Max.Retrans (PSMR), it's a tunable parameter coming
2808	from section-5 "Primary Path Switchover" in rfc7829.  The primary path
2809	will be changed to another active path when the path error counter on
2810	the old primary path exceeds PSMR, so that "the SCTP sender is allowed
2811	to continue data transmission on a new working path even when the old
2812	primary destination address becomes active again".   Note this feature
2813	is disabled by initializing 'ps_retrans' per netns as 0xffff by default,
2814	and its value can't be less than 'pf_retrans' when changing by sysctl.
2815
2816	Default: 0xffff
2817
2818rto_initial - INTEGER
2819	The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
2820	in calculating round trip times.  This is the initial time interval
2821	for retransmissions.
2822
2823	Default: 3000
2824
2825rto_max - INTEGER
2826	The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout.  This
2827	is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
2828
2829	Default: 60000
2830
2831rto_min - INTEGER
2832	The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout.  This
2833	is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
2834
2835	Default: 1000
2836
2837hb_interval - INTEGER
2838	The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks.  These chunks
2839	are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
2840	a given path between 2 associations.
2841
2842	Default: 30000
2843
2844sack_timeout - INTEGER
2845	The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
2846	to send a SACK.
2847
2848	Default: 200
2849
2850valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
2851	The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds).  The cookie
2852	is used during association establishment.
2853
2854	Default: 60000
2855
2856cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
2857	Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
2858	that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
2859
2860	- 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
2861	- 0: Disable
2862
2863	Default: 1
2864
2865cookie_hmac_alg - STRING
2866	Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by
2867	a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk.
2868	Valid values are:
2869
2870	* md5
2871	* sha1
2872	* none
2873
2874	Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the
2875	configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and
2876	CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1).
2877
2878	Default: Dependent on configuration.  MD5 if available, else SHA1 if
2879	available, else none.
2880
2881rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
2882	Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
2883	association.   SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
2884	associations on a single socket.  When using this capability, it is
2885	possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
2886	of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
2887	consuming all of the receive buffer space.  To work around this,
2888	the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
2889	to each association instead of the socket.  This prevents the described
2890	blocking.
2891
2892	- 1: rcvbuf space is per association
2893	- 0: rcvbuf space is per socket
2894
2895	Default: 0
2896
2897sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
2898	Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
2899
2900	- 1: Send buffer is tracked per association
2901	- 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
2902
2903	Default: 0
2904
2905sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
2906	Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2907
2908	min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
2909	memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
2910	this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
2911
2912	pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
2913
2914	max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
2915
2916	Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
2917
2918sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2919	Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2920	ignored.
2921
2922	min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket.
2923	It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2924	under moderate memory pressure.
2925
2926	Default: 4K
2927
2928sctp_wmem  - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
2929	Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are
2930	ignored.
2931
2932	min: Minimum size of send buffer that can be used by SCTP sockets.
2933	It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even
2934	under moderate memory pressure.
2935
2936	Default: 4K
2937
2938addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
2939	Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
2940
2941	- 0   - Disable IPv4 address scoping
2942	- 1   - Enable IPv4 address scoping
2943	- 2   - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
2944	- 3   - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
2945
2946	Default: 1
2947
2948udp_port - INTEGER
2949	The listening port for the local UDP tunneling sock. Normally it's
2950	using the IANA-assigned UDP port number 9899 (sctp-tunneling).
2951
2952	This UDP sock is used for processing the incoming UDP-encapsulated
2953	SCTP packets (from RFC6951), and shared by all applications in the
2954	same net namespace. This UDP sock will be closed when the value is
2955	set to 0.
2956
2957	The value will also be used to set the src port of the UDP header
2958	for the outgoing UDP-encapsulated SCTP packets. For the dest port,
2959	please refer to 'encap_port' below.
2960
2961	Default: 0
2962
2963encap_port - INTEGER
2964	The default remote UDP encapsulation port.
2965
2966	This value is used to set the dest port of the UDP header for the
2967	outgoing UDP-encapsulated SCTP packets by default. Users can also
2968	change the value for each sock/asoc/transport by using setsockopt.
2969	For further information, please refer to RFC6951.
2970
2971	Note that when connecting to a remote server, the client should set
2972	this to the port that the UDP tunneling sock on the peer server is
2973	listening to and the local UDP tunneling sock on the client also
2974	must be started. On the server, it would get the encap_port from
2975	the incoming packet's source port.
2976
2977	Default: 0
2978
2979plpmtud_probe_interval - INTEGER
2980        The time interval (in milliseconds) for the PLPMTUD probe timer,
2981        which is configured to expire after this period to receive an
2982        acknowledgment to a probe packet. This is also the time interval
2983        between the probes for the current pmtu when the probe search
2984        is done.
2985
2986        PLPMTUD will be disabled when 0 is set, and other values for it
2987        must be >= 5000.
2988
2989	Default: 0
2990
2991reconf_enable - BOOLEAN
2992        Enable or disable extension of Stream Reconfiguration functionality
2993        specified in RFC6525. This extension provides the ability to "reset"
2994        a stream, and it includes the Parameters of "Outgoing/Incoming SSN
2995        Reset", "SSN/TSN Reset" and "Add Outgoing/Incoming Streams".
2996
2997	- 1: Enable extension.
2998	- 0: Disable extension.
2999
3000	Default: 0
3001
3002intl_enable - BOOLEAN
3003        Enable or disable extension of User Message Interleaving functionality
3004        specified in RFC8260. This extension allows the interleaving of user
3005        messages sent on different streams. With this feature enabled, I-DATA
3006        chunk will replace DATA chunk to carry user messages if also supported
3007        by the peer. Note that to use this feature, one needs to set this option
3008        to 1 and also needs to set socket options SCTP_FRAGMENT_INTERLEAVE to 2
3009        and SCTP_INTERLEAVING_SUPPORTED to 1.
3010
3011	- 1: Enable extension.
3012	- 0: Disable extension.
3013
3014	Default: 0
3015
3016ecn_enable - BOOLEAN
3017        Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by SCTP.
3018        Like in TCP, ECN is used only when both ends of the SCTP connection
3019        indicate support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses
3020        due to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal congestion
3021        before having to drop packets.
3022
3023        1: Enable ecn.
3024        0: Disable ecn.
3025
3026        Default: 1
3027
3028
3029``/proc/sys/net/core/*``
3030========================
3031
3032	Please see: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries.
3033
3034
3035``/proc/sys/net/unix/*``
3036========================
3037
3038max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
3039	The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
3040
3041	Default: 10
3042
3043