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 1043UDP variables 1044============= 1045 1046udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN 1047 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work 1048 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of 1049 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they 1050 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with 1051 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. 1052 1053 Default: 0 (disabled) 1054 1055udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max 1056 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets. 1057 1058 min: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets. 1059 1060 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem. 1061 1062 max: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem. 1063 1064 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory. 1065 1066udp_rmem_min - INTEGER 1067 Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation. 1068 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if 1069 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte. 1070 1071 Default: 4K 1072 1073udp_wmem_min - INTEGER 1074 UDP does not have tx memory accounting and this tunable has no effect. 1075 1076RAW variables 1077============= 1078 1079raw_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN 1080 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work 1081 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of 1082 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they 1083 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with 1084 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. 1085 1086 Default: 1 (enabled) 1087 1088CIPSOv4 Variables 1089================= 1090 1091cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN 1092 If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping 1093 cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a 1094 miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still 1095 invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and 1096 off and the cache will always be "safe". 1097 1098 Default: 1 1099 1100cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER 1101 The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each 1102 hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits 1103 the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value is, the 1104 more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of 1105 entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries 1106 causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room. 1107 1108 Default: 10 1109 1110cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN 1111 Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of 1112 the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details). 1113 This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty 1114 categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned. 1115 1116 Default: 0 1117 1118cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN 1119 If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when 1120 ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during 1121 ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else 1122 where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should 1123 result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems 1124 with other implementations that require strict checking. 1125 1126 Default: 0 1127 1128IP Variables 1129============ 1130 1131ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS 1132 Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to 1133 choose the local port. The first number is the first, the 1134 second the last local port number. 1135 If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity 1136 (one even and one odd value). 1137 Must be greater than or equal to ip_unprivileged_port_start. 1138 The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively. 1139 1140ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges 1141 Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party 1142 applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port 1143 assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port 1144 number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged. 1145 1146 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated 1147 list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1148 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved 1149 ports and update the current list with the one given in the 1150 input. 1151 1152 Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports 1153 settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel 1154 when determining which ports are available for automatic port 1155 assignments. 1156 1157 You can reserve ports which are not in the current 1158 ip_local_port_range, e.g.:: 1159 1160 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range 1161 32000 60999 1162 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports 1163 8080,9148 1164 1165 although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful 1166 if later the port range is changed to a value that will 1167 include the reserved ports. Also keep in mind, that overlapping 1168 of these ranges may affect probability of selecting ephemeral 1169 ports which are right after block of reserved ports. 1170 1171 Default: Empty 1172 1173ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER 1174 This is a per-namespace sysctl. It defines the first 1175 unprivileged port in the network namespace. Privileged ports 1176 require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them. 1177 To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0. They must not 1178 overlap with the ip_local_port_range. 1179 1180 Default: 1024 1181 1182ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN 1183 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses, 1184 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications. 1185 1186 Default: 0 1187 1188ip_autobind_reuse - BOOLEAN 1189 By default, bind() does not select the ports automatically even if 1190 the new socket and all sockets bound to the port have SO_REUSEADDR. 1191 ip_autobind_reuse allows bind() to reuse the port and this is useful 1192 when you use bind()+connect(), but may break some applications. 1193 The preferred solution is to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT and this 1194 option should only be set by experts. 1195 Default: 0 1196 1197ip_dynaddr - INTEGER 1198 If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses. 1199 If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log 1200 message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting 1201 occurs. 1202 1203 Default: 0 1204 1205ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN 1206 Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for 1207 certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this 1208 for established TCP and connected UDP sockets. 1209 1210 It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that 1211 reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it. 1212 1213 Default: 1 1214 1215ping_group_range - 2 INTEGERS 1216 Restrict ICMP_PROTO datagram sockets to users in the group range. 1217 The default is "1 0", meaning, that nobody (not even root) may 1218 create ping sockets. Setting it to "100 100" would grant permissions 1219 to the single group. "0 4294967295" would enable it for the world, "100 1220 4294967295" would enable it for the users, but not daemons. 1221 1222tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN 1223 Enable early demux for established TCP sockets. 1224 1225 Default: 1 1226 1227udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN 1228 Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if 1229 your system could experience more unconnected load. 1230 1231 Default: 1 1232 1233icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN 1234 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO 1235 requests sent to it. 1236 1237 Default: 0 1238 1239icmp_echo_enable_probe - BOOLEAN 1240 If set to one, then the kernel will respond to RFC 8335 PROBE 1241 requests sent to it. 1242 1243 Default: 0 1244 1245icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN 1246 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and 1247 TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast. 1248 1249 Default: 1 1250 1251icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER 1252 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches 1253 icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets. 1254 0 to disable any limiting, 1255 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds. 1256 Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number 1257 of ICMP packets sent on all targets. 1258 1259 Default: 1000 1260 1261icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER 1262 Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host. 1263 Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are 1264 controlled by this limit. For security reasons, the precise count 1265 of messages per second is randomized. 1266 1267 Default: 1000 1268 1269icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER 1270 icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second, 1271 while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets. 1272 For security reasons, the precise burst size is randomized. 1273 1274 Default: 50 1275 1276icmp_ratemask - INTEGER 1277 Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited. 1278 1279 Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210 1280 1281 Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168) 1282 1283 Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h): 1284 1285 = ========================= 1286 0 Echo Reply 1287 3 Destination Unreachable [1]_ 1288 4 Source Quench [1]_ 1289 5 Redirect 1290 8 Echo Request 1291 B Time Exceeded [1]_ 1292 C Parameter Problem [1]_ 1293 D Timestamp Request 1294 E Timestamp Reply 1295 F Info Request 1296 G Info Reply 1297 H Address Mask Request 1298 I Address Mask Reply 1299 = ========================= 1300 1301 .. [1] These are rate limited by default (see default mask above) 1302 1303icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN 1304 Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast 1305 frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning. 1306 If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which 1307 will avoid log file clutter. 1308 1309 Default: 1 1310 1311icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN 1312 1313 If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of 1314 the exiting interface. 1315 1316 If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of 1317 the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error. 1318 This is the behaviour many network administrators will expect from 1319 a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts 1320 much easier. 1321 1322 Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected, 1323 then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that 1324 has one will be used regardless of this setting. 1325 1326 Default: 0 1327 1328igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER 1329 Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to. 1330 Default: 20 1331 1332 Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership 1333 report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple 1334 datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't 1335 intend to). 1336 1337 The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group 1338 report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes. 1339 1340 M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record)) 1341 1342 Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes. 1343 So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than: 1344 1345 (65536-24) / 12 = 5459 1346 1347 The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice 1348 this number may be lower. 1349 1350igmp_max_msf - INTEGER 1351 Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a 1352 multicast group. 1353 1354 Default: 10 1355 1356igmp_qrv - INTEGER 1357 Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1). 1358 1359 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1) 1360 1361 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5) 1362 1363force_igmp_version - INTEGER 1364 - 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback 1365 allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier 1366 Present timer expires. 1367 - 1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if 1368 receive IGMPv2/v3 query. 1369 - 2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive 1370 IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query. 1371 - 3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0. 1372 1373 .. note:: 1374 1375 this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376 1376 Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could 1377 ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make 1378 this value as default 0 is recommended. 1379 1380``conf/interface/*`` 1381 changes special settings per interface (where 1382 interface" is the name of your network interface) 1383 1384``conf/all/*`` 1385 is special, changes the settings for all interfaces 1386 1387log_martians - BOOLEAN 1388 Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log. 1389 log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1390 conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE, 1391 it will be disabled otherwise 1392 1393accept_redirects - BOOLEAN 1394 Accept ICMP redirect messages. 1395 accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if: 1396 1397 - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case 1398 forwarding for the interface is enabled 1399 1400 or 1401 1402 - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the 1403 case forwarding for the interface is disabled 1404 1405 accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise 1406 1407 default: 1408 1409 - TRUE (host) 1410 - FALSE (router) 1411 1412forwarding - BOOLEAN 1413 Enable IP forwarding on this interface. This controls whether packets 1414 received _on_ this interface can be forwarded. 1415 1416mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN 1417 Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE 1418 and a multicast routing daemon is required. 1419 conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast 1420 routing for the interface 1421 1422medium_id - INTEGER 1423 Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they 1424 are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when 1425 the broadcast packets are received only on one of them. 1426 The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface 1427 to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known. 1428 1429 Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior: 1430 the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between 1431 two devices attached to different media. 1432 1433proxy_arp - BOOLEAN 1434 Do proxy arp. 1435 1436 proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1437 conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE, 1438 it will be disabled otherwise 1439 1440proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN 1441 Private VLAN proxy arp. 1442 1443 Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface 1444 (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received). 1445 1446 This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC 1447 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to 1448 communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to 1449 the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible 1450 to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream 1451 router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with 1452 proxy_arp. 1453 1454 This technology is known by different names: 1455 1456 In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation. 1457 Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN. 1458 Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation. 1459 Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft). 1460 1461shared_media - BOOLEAN 1462 Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects. 1463 Overrides secure_redirects. 1464 1465 shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1466 conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE, 1467 it will be disabled otherwise 1468 1469 default TRUE 1470 1471secure_redirects - BOOLEAN 1472 Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the 1473 interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect 1474 rules still apply. 1475 1476 Overridden by shared_media. 1477 1478 secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1479 conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE, 1480 it will be disabled otherwise 1481 1482 default TRUE 1483 1484send_redirects - BOOLEAN 1485 Send redirects, if router. 1486 1487 send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1488 conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE, 1489 it will be disabled otherwise 1490 1491 Default: TRUE 1492 1493bootp_relay - BOOLEAN 1494 Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined 1495 not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that 1496 BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets. 1497 conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay 1498 for the interface 1499 1500 default FALSE 1501 1502 Not Implemented Yet. 1503 1504accept_source_route - BOOLEAN 1505 Accept packets with SRR option. 1506 conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets 1507 with SRR option on the interface 1508 1509 default 1510 1511 - TRUE (router) 1512 - FALSE (host) 1513 1514accept_local - BOOLEAN 1515 Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with 1516 suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two 1517 local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly. 1518 default FALSE 1519 1520route_localnet - BOOLEAN 1521 Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination 1522 while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes. 1523 1524 default FALSE 1525 1526rp_filter - INTEGER 1527 - 0 - No source validation. 1528 - 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path 1529 Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface 1530 is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail. 1531 By default failed packets are discarded. 1532 - 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path 1533 Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB 1534 and if the source address is not reachable via any interface 1535 the packet check will fail. 1536 1537 Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode 1538 to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing 1539 or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended. 1540 1541 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used 1542 when doing source validation on the {interface}. 1543 1544 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it 1545 in startup scripts. 1546 1547src_valid_mark - BOOLEAN 1548 - 0 - The fwmark of the packet is not included in reverse path 1549 route lookup. This allows for asymmetric routing configurations 1550 utilizing the fwmark in only one direction, e.g., transparent 1551 proxying. 1552 1553 - 1 - The fwmark of the packet is included in reverse path route 1554 lookup. This permits rp_filter to function when the fwmark is 1555 used for routing traffic in both directions. 1556 1557 This setting also affects the utilization of fmwark when 1558 performing source address selection for ICMP replies, or 1559 determining addresses stored for the IPOPT_TS_TSANDADDR and 1560 IPOPT_RR IP options. 1561 1562 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/src_valid_mark is used. 1563 1564 Default value is 0. 1565 1566arp_filter - BOOLEAN 1567 - 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same 1568 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered 1569 based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from 1570 the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source 1571 based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control 1572 of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request. 1573 1574 - 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses 1575 from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes 1576 sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication. 1577 IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by 1578 particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load- 1579 balancing, does this behaviour cause problems. 1580 1581 arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1582 conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE, 1583 it will be disabled otherwise 1584 1585arp_announce - INTEGER 1586 Define different restriction levels for announcing the local 1587 source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on 1588 interface: 1589 1590 - 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface 1591 - 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's 1592 subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target 1593 hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP 1594 address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network 1595 configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the 1596 request we will check all our subnets that include the 1597 target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from 1598 such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source 1599 address according to the rules for level 2. 1600 - 2 - Always use the best local address for this target. 1601 In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet 1602 and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with 1603 the target host. Such local address is selected by looking 1604 for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing 1605 interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable 1606 local address is found we select the first local address 1607 we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces, 1608 with the hope we will receive reply for our request and 1609 even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce. 1610 1611 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used. 1612 1613 Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for 1614 receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing 1615 the level announces more valid sender's information. 1616 1617arp_ignore - INTEGER 1618 Define different modes for sending replies in response to 1619 received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses: 1620 1621 - 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured 1622 on any interface 1623 - 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address 1624 configured on the incoming interface 1625 - 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address 1626 configured on the incoming interface and both with the 1627 sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface 1628 - 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host, 1629 only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied 1630 - 4-7 - reserved 1631 - 8 - do not reply for all local addresses 1632 1633 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used 1634 when ARP request is received on the {interface} 1635 1636arp_notify - BOOLEAN 1637 Define mode for notification of address and device changes. 1638 1639 == ========================================================== 1640 0 (default): do nothing 1641 1 Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up 1642 or hardware address changes. 1643 == ========================================================== 1644 1645arp_accept - INTEGER 1646 Define behavior for accepting gratuitous ARP (garp) frames from devices 1647 that are not already present in the ARP table: 1648 1649 - 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table 1650 - 1 - create new entries in the ARP table 1651 - 2 - create new entries only if the source IP address is in the same 1652 subnet as an address configured on the interface that received the 1653 garp message. 1654 1655 Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the 1656 ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on. 1657 1658 If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the 1659 gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless 1660 if this setting is on or off. 1661 1662arp_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN 1663 Clears the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events. This option is important for 1664 wireless devices where the ARP cache should not be cleared when roaming 1665 between access points on the same network. In most cases this should 1666 remain as the default (1). 1667 1668 - 1 - (default): Clear the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events 1669 - 0 - Do not clear ARP cache on NOCARRIER events 1670 1671mcast_solicit - INTEGER 1672 The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state, 1673 when the associated hardware address is unknown. Defaults 1674 to 3. 1675 1676ucast_solicit - INTEGER 1677 The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when 1678 the hardware address is being reconfirmed. Defaults to 3. 1679 1680app_solicit - INTEGER 1681 The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon 1682 via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see 1683 mcast_resolicit). Defaults to 0. 1684 1685mcast_resolicit - INTEGER 1686 The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and 1687 app probes in PROBE state. Defaults to 0. 1688 1689disable_policy - BOOLEAN 1690 Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface 1691 1692disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN 1693 Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy 1694 1695igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 1696 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 1697 IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place. 1698 1699 Default: 10000 (10 seconds) 1700 1701igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 1702 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 1703 IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place. 1704 1705 Default: 1000 (1 seconds) 1706 1707ignore_routes_with_linkdown - BOOLEAN 1708 Ignore routes whose link is down when performing a FIB lookup. 1709 1710promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN 1711 When a primary IP address is removed from this interface 1712 promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of 1713 removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses. 1714 1715drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN 1716 Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer 1717 multicast (or broadcast) frames. 1718 1719 This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC 1720 1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons. 1721 1722 Default: off (0) 1723 1724drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN 1725 Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known 1726 good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used 1727 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.) 1728 1729 Default: off (0) 1730 1731 1732tag - INTEGER 1733 Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required. 1734 1735 Default value is 0. 1736 1737xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER 1738 (Obsolete since linux-4.14) 1739 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4 1740 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will 1741 refuse new allocations. 1742 1743igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN 1744 Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the 1745 224.0.0.X range. 1746 1747 Default TRUE 1748 1749Alexey Kuznetsov. 1750kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru 1751 1752Updated by: 1753 1754- Andi Kleen 1755 ak@muc.de 1756- Nicolas Delon 1757 delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr 1758 1759 1760 1761 1762/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables 1763============================== 1764 1765IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also 1766apply to IPv6 [XXX?]. 1767 1768bindv6only - BOOLEAN 1769 Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option, 1770 which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication 1771 only. 1772 1773 - TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature 1774 - FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature 1775 1776 Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493) 1777 1778flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN 1779 Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label. 1780 You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the 1781 flow label manager. 1782 1783 - TRUE: enabled 1784 - FALSE: disabled 1785 1786 Default: TRUE 1787 1788auto_flowlabels - INTEGER 1789 Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the 1790 packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to 1791 identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath 1792 Routing (see RFC 6438). 1793 1794 = =========================================================== 1795 0 automatic flow labels are completely disabled 1796 1 automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be 1797 disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL 1798 socket option 1799 2 automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a 1800 per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option 1801 3 automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot 1802 be disabled by the socket option 1803 = =========================================================== 1804 1805 Default: 1 1806 1807flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN 1808 Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is 1809 reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF 1810 is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437. 1811 1812 - TRUE: enabled 1813 - FALSE: disabled 1814 1815 Default: true 1816 1817flowlabel_reflect - INTEGER 1818 Control flow label reflection. Needed for Path MTU 1819 Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast 1820 environments. See RFC 7690 and: 1821 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01 1822 1823 This is a bitmask. 1824 1825 - 1: enabled for established flows 1826 1827 Note that this prevents automatic flowlabel changes, as done 1828 in "tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission" 1829 and "tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit" 1830 1831 - 2: enabled for TCP RESET packets (no active listener) 1832 If set, a RST packet sent in response to a SYN packet on a closed 1833 port will reflect the incoming flow label. 1834 1835 - 4: enabled for ICMPv6 echo reply messages. 1836 1837 Default: 0 1838 1839fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER 1840 Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes. 1841 1842 Default: 0 (Layer 3) 1843 1844 Possible values: 1845 1846 - 0 - Layer 3 (source and destination addresses plus flow label) 1847 - 1 - Layer 4 (standard 5-tuple) 1848 - 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present 1849 - 3 - Custom multipath hash. Fields used for multipath hash calculation 1850 are determined by fib_multipath_hash_fields sysctl 1851 1852fib_multipath_hash_fields - UNSIGNED INTEGER 1853 When fib_multipath_hash_policy is set to 3 (custom multipath hash), the 1854 fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by this 1855 sysctl. 1856 1857 This value is a bitmask which enables various fields for multipath hash 1858 calculation. 1859 1860 Possible fields are: 1861 1862 ====== ============================ 1863 0x0001 Source IP address 1864 0x0002 Destination IP address 1865 0x0004 IP protocol 1866 0x0008 Flow Label 1867 0x0010 Source port 1868 0x0020 Destination port 1869 0x0040 Inner source IP address 1870 0x0080 Inner destination IP address 1871 0x0100 Inner IP protocol 1872 0x0200 Inner Flow Label 1873 0x0400 Inner source port 1874 0x0800 Inner destination port 1875 ====== ============================ 1876 1877 Default: 0x0007 (source IP, destination IP and IP protocol) 1878 1879anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN 1880 Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6 1881 echo reply 1882 1883 - TRUE: enabled 1884 - FALSE: disabled 1885 1886 Default: FALSE 1887 1888idgen_delay - INTEGER 1889 Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry 1890 privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is 1891 detected. 1892 1893 Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217) 1894 1895idgen_retries - INTEGER 1896 Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy 1897 address if a DAD conflict is detected. 1898 1899 Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217) 1900 1901mld_qrv - INTEGER 1902 Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1). 1903 1904 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1) 1905 1906 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5) 1907 1908max_dst_opts_number - INTEGER 1909 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Destination 1910 options extension header. If this value is less than zero 1911 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known 1912 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number. 1913 1914 Default: 8 1915 1916max_hbh_opts_number - INTEGER 1917 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Hop-by-Hop 1918 options extension header. If this value is less than zero 1919 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known 1920 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number. 1921 1922 Default: 8 1923 1924max_dst_opts_length - INTEGER 1925 Maximum length allowed for a Destination options extension 1926 header. 1927 1928 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited) 1929 1930max_hbh_length - INTEGER 1931 Maximum length allowed for a Hop-by-Hop options extension 1932 header. 1933 1934 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited) 1935 1936skip_notify_on_dev_down - BOOLEAN 1937 Controls whether an RTM_DELROUTE message is generated for routes 1938 removed when a device is taken down or deleted. IPv4 does not 1939 generate this message; IPv6 does by default. Setting this sysctl 1940 to true skips the message, making IPv4 and IPv6 on par in relying 1941 on userspace caches to track link events and evict routes. 1942 1943 Default: false (generate message) 1944 1945nexthop_compat_mode - BOOLEAN 1946 New nexthop API provides a means for managing nexthops independent of 1947 prefixes. Backwards compatibilty with old route format is enabled by 1948 default which means route dumps and notifications contain the new 1949 nexthop attribute but also the full, expanded nexthop definition. 1950 Further, updates or deletes of a nexthop configuration generate route 1951 notifications for each fib entry using the nexthop. Once a system 1952 understands the new API, this sysctl can be disabled to achieve full 1953 performance benefits of the new API by disabling the nexthop expansion 1954 and extraneous notifications. 1955 Default: true (backward compat mode) 1956 1957fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER 1958 Whether to emit RTM_NEWROUTE notifications whenever RTM_F_OFFLOAD/ 1959 RTM_F_TRAP/RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flags are changed. 1960 1961 After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an 1962 acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel, 1963 but not necessarily in hardware. 1964 It is also possible for a route already installed in hardware to change 1965 its action and therefore its flags. For example, a host route that is 1966 trapping packets can be "promoted" to perform decapsulation following 1967 the installation of an IPinIP/VXLAN tunnel. 1968 The notifications will indicate to user-space the state of the route. 1969 1970 Default: 0 (Do not emit notifications.) 1971 1972 Possible values: 1973 1974 - 0 - Do not emit notifications. 1975 - 1 - Emit notifications. 1976 - 2 - Emit notifications only for RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag change. 1977 1978ioam6_id - INTEGER 1979 Define the IOAM id of this node. Uses only 24 bits out of 32 in total. 1980 1981 Min: 0 1982 Max: 0xFFFFFF 1983 1984 Default: 0xFFFFFF 1985 1986ioam6_id_wide - LONG INTEGER 1987 Define the wide IOAM id of this node. Uses only 56 bits out of 64 in 1988 total. Can be different from ioam6_id. 1989 1990 Min: 0 1991 Max: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 1992 1993 Default: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 1994 1995IPv6 Fragmentation: 1996 1997ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER 1998 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When 1999 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose, 2000 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh 2001 is reached. 2002 2003ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER 2004 See ip6frag_high_thresh 2005 2006ip6frag_time - INTEGER 2007 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory. 2008 2009``conf/default/*``: 2010 Change the interface-specific default settings. 2011 2012 These settings would be used during creating new interfaces. 2013 2014 2015``conf/all/*``: 2016 Change all the interface-specific settings. 2017 2018 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?] 2019 2020conf/all/disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN 2021 Changing this value is same as changing ``conf/default/disable_ipv6`` 2022 setting and also all per-interface ``disable_ipv6`` settings to the same 2023 value. 2024 2025 Reading this value does not have any particular meaning. It does not say 2026 whether IPv6 support is enabled or disabled. Returned value can be 1 2027 also in the case when some interface has ``disable_ipv6`` set to 0 and 2028 has configured IPv6 addresses. 2029 2030conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN 2031 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces. 2032 2033 IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used 2034 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not. 2035 2036 This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting 2037 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details. 2038 2039 This referred to as global forwarding. 2040 2041proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN 2042 Do proxy ndp. 2043 2044fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN 2045 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not 2046 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies). 2047 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the 2048 fwmark of the packet they are replying to. 2049 2050 Default: 0 2051 2052``conf/interface/*``: 2053 Change special settings per interface. 2054 2055 The functional behaviour for certain settings is different 2056 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not. 2057 2058accept_ra - INTEGER 2059 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them. 2060 2061 It also determines whether or not to transmit Router 2062 Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to 2063 accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be 2064 transmitted. 2065 2066 Possible values are: 2067 2068 == =========================================================== 2069 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements. 2070 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled. 2071 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements 2072 even if forwarding is enabled. 2073 == =========================================================== 2074 2075 Functional default: 2076 2077 - enabled if local forwarding is disabled. 2078 - disabled if local forwarding is enabled. 2079 2080accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN 2081 Learn default router in Router Advertisement. 2082 2083 Functional default: 2084 2085 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 2086 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 2087 2088ra_defrtr_metric - UNSIGNED INTEGER 2089 Route metric for default route learned in Router Advertisement. This value 2090 will be assigned as metric for the default route learned via IPv6 Router 2091 Advertisement. Takes affect only if accept_ra_defrtr is enabled. 2092 2093 Possible values: 2094 1 to 0xFFFFFFFF 2095 2096 Default: IP6_RT_PRIO_USER i.e. 1024. 2097 2098accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN 2099 Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine 2100 if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted. 2101 2102 Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended 2103 network loop. 2104 2105 Functional default: 2106 2107 - enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled 2108 on a specific interface. 2109 - disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled 2110 on a specific interface. 2111 2112accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER 2113 Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement. 2114 2115 Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this 2116 variable shall be ignored. 2117 2118 Default: 1 2119 2120accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN 2121 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement. 2122 2123 Functional default: 2124 2125 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 2126 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 2127 2128accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER 2129 Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA. 2130 2131 Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall 2132 be ignored. 2133 2134 Functional default: 2135 2136 * 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled. 2137 * -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled. 2138 2139accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER 2140 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA. 2141 2142 Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall 2143 be ignored. 2144 2145 Functional default: 2146 2147 * 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled. 2148 * -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled. 2149 2150accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN 2151 Accept Router Preference in RA. 2152 2153 Functional default: 2154 2155 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 2156 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 2157 2158accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN 2159 Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If 2160 disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored. 2161 2162 Functional default: 2163 2164 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 2165 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 2166 2167accept_redirects - BOOLEAN 2168 Accept Redirects. 2169 2170 Functional default: 2171 2172 - enabled if local forwarding is disabled. 2173 - disabled if local forwarding is enabled. 2174 2175accept_source_route - INTEGER 2176 Accept source routing (routing extension header). 2177 2178 - >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2. 2179 - < 0: Do not accept routing header. 2180 2181 Default: 0 2182 2183autoconf - BOOLEAN 2184 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router 2185 Advertisements. 2186 2187 Functional default: 2188 2189 - enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled. 2190 - disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled. 2191 2192dad_transmits - INTEGER 2193 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send. 2194 2195 Default: 1 2196 2197forwarding - INTEGER 2198 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour. 2199 2200 .. note:: 2201 2202 It is recommended to have the same setting on all 2203 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon. 2204 2205 Possible values are: 2206 2207 - 0 Forwarding disabled 2208 - 1 Forwarding enabled 2209 2210 **FALSE (0)**: 2211 2212 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means: 2213 2214 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements. 2215 2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router 2216 Solicitations. 2217 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router 2218 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration). 2219 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects. 2220 2221 **TRUE (1)**: 2222 2223 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed. 2224 This means exactly the reverse from the above: 2225 2226 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements. 2227 2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2. 2228 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2. 2229 4. Redirects are ignored. 2230 2231 Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default), 2232 otherwise 1 (enabled). 2233 2234hop_limit - INTEGER 2235 Default Hop Limit to set. 2236 2237 Default: 64 2238 2239mtu - INTEGER 2240 Default Maximum Transfer Unit 2241 2242 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum) 2243 2244ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN 2245 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses, 2246 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications. 2247 2248 Default: 0 2249 2250router_probe_interval - INTEGER 2251 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described 2252 in RFC4191. 2253 2254 Default: 60 2255 2256router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER 2257 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up 2258 before sending Router Solicitations. 2259 2260 Default: 1 2261 2262router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER 2263 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations. 2264 2265 Default: 4 2266 2267router_solicitations - INTEGER 2268 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no 2269 routers are present. 2270 2271 Default: 3 2272 2273use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN 2274 When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations 2275 routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses 2276 configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4). 2277 2278 Default: false 2279 2280use_tempaddr - INTEGER 2281 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041). 2282 2283 * <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions 2284 * == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public 2285 addresses over temporary addresses. 2286 * > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary 2287 addresses over public addresses. 2288 2289 Default: 2290 2291 * 0 (for most devices) 2292 * -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices) 2293 2294temp_valid_lft - INTEGER 2295 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. 2296 2297 Default: 172800 (2 days) 2298 2299temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER 2300 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. 2301 2302 Default: 86400 (1 day) 2303 2304keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER 2305 Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static 2306 global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed. 2307 2308 * >0 : enabled 2309 * 0 : system default 2310 * <0 : disabled 2311 2312 Default: 0 (addresses are removed) 2313 2314max_desync_factor - INTEGER 2315 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value 2316 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each 2317 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time. 2318 value is in seconds. 2319 2320 Default: 600 2321 2322regen_max_retry - INTEGER 2323 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate 2324 valid temporary addresses. 2325 2326 Default: 5 2327 2328max_addresses - INTEGER 2329 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting 2330 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this 2331 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to 2332 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created. 2333 2334 Default: 16 2335 2336disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN 2337 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value 2338 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local 2339 address. 2340 2341 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation) 2342 2343 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled), 2344 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given 2345 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary. 2346 2347 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled), 2348 it will dynamically delete all addresses and routes on the given 2349 interface. From now on it will not possible to add addresses/routes 2350 to the selected interface. 2351 2352accept_dad - INTEGER 2353 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection). 2354 2355 == ============================================================== 2356 0 Disable DAD 2357 1 Enable DAD (default) 2358 2 Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate 2359 link-local address has been found. 2360 == ============================================================== 2361 2362 DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according 2363 to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad. 2364 2365force_tllao - BOOLEAN 2366 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when 2367 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation. 2368 2369 Default: FALSE 2370 2371 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address: 2372 2373 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to 2374 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node 2375 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements 2376 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be 2377 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link- 2378 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast 2379 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer 2380 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential 2381 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address 2382 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation." 2383 2384ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN 2385 Define mode for notification of address and device changes. 2386 2387 * 0 - (default): do nothing 2388 * 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought 2389 up or hardware address changes. 2390 2391ndisc_tclass - INTEGER 2392 The IPv6 Traffic Class to use by default when sending IPv6 Neighbor 2393 Discovery (Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor 2394 Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, Redirect) messages. 2395 These 8 bits can be interpreted as 6 high order bits holding the DSCP 2396 value and 2 low order bits representing ECN (which you probably want 2397 to leave cleared). 2398 2399 * 0 - (default) 2400 2401ndisc_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN 2402 Clears the neighbor discovery table on NOCARRIER events. This option is 2403 important for wireless devices where the neighbor discovery cache should 2404 not be cleared when roaming between access points on the same network. 2405 In most cases this should remain as the default (1). 2406 2407 - 1 - (default): Clear neighbor discover cache on NOCARRIER events. 2408 - 0 - Do not clear neighbor discovery cache on NOCARRIER events. 2409 2410mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 2411 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 2412 MLDv1 report retransmit will take place. 2413 2414 Default: 10000 (10 seconds) 2415 2416mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 2417 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 2418 MLDv2 report retransmit will take place. 2419 2420 Default: 1000 (1 second) 2421 2422force_mld_version - INTEGER 2423 * 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed 2424 * 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1 2425 * 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2 2426 2427suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER 2428 Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation 2429 with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior: 2430 2431 * 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets 2432 * 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets 2433 2434optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN 2435 Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429). 2436 2437 * 0: disabled (default) 2438 * 1: enabled 2439 2440 Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled 2441 if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1, 2442 it will be disabled otherwise. 2443 2444use_optimistic - BOOLEAN 2445 If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during 2446 source address selection. Preferred addresses will still be chosen 2447 before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source 2448 address selection algorithm. 2449 2450 * 0: disabled (default) 2451 * 1: enabled 2452 2453 This will be enabled if at least one of 2454 conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise. 2455 2456stable_secret - IPv6 address 2457 This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6 2458 addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured 2459 ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will 2460 be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the 2461 addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the 2462 secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can 2463 overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused. 2464 2465 It is recommended to generate this secret during installation 2466 of a system and keep it stable after that. 2467 2468 By default the stable secret is unset. 2469 2470addr_gen_mode - INTEGER 2471 Defines how link-local and autoconf addresses are generated. 2472 2473 = ================================================================= 2474 0 generate address based on EUI64 (default) 2475 1 do no generate a link-local address, use EUI64 for addresses 2476 generated from autoconf 2477 2 generate stable privacy addresses, using the secret from 2478 stable_secret (RFC7217) 2479 3 generate stable privacy addresses, using a random secret if unset 2480 = ================================================================= 2481 2482drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN 2483 Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer 2484 multicast (or broadcast) frames. 2485 2486 By default this is turned off. 2487 2488drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN 2489 Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's 2490 a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used 2491 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.) 2492 2493 By default this is turned off. 2494 2495accept_untracked_na - INTEGER 2496 Define behavior for accepting neighbor advertisements from devices that 2497 are absent in the neighbor cache: 2498 2499 - 0 - (default) Do not accept unsolicited and untracked neighbor 2500 advertisements. 2501 2502 - 1 - Add a new neighbor cache entry in STALE state for routers on 2503 receiving a neighbor advertisement (either solicited or unsolicited) 2504 with target link-layer address option specified if no neighbor entry 2505 is already present for the advertised IPv6 address. Without this knob, 2506 NAs received for untracked addresses (absent in neighbor cache) are 2507 silently ignored. 2508 2509 This is as per router-side behavior documented in RFC9131. 2510 2511 This has lower precedence than drop_unsolicited_na. 2512 2513 This will optimize the return path for the initial off-link 2514 communication that is initiated by a directly connected host, by 2515 ensuring that the first-hop router which turns on this setting doesn't 2516 have to buffer the initial return packets to do neighbor-solicitation. 2517 The prerequisite is that the host is configured to send unsolicited 2518 neighbor advertisements on interface bringup. This setting should be 2519 used in conjunction with the ndisc_notify setting on the host to 2520 satisfy this prerequisite. 2521 2522 - 2 - Extend option (1) to add a new neighbor cache entry only if the 2523 source IP address is in the same subnet as an address configured on 2524 the interface that received the neighbor advertisement. 2525 2526enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN 2527 Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for 2528 duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal 2529 a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false 2530 detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send. 2531 The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of 2532 conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE. 2533 2534 Default: TRUE 2535 2536``icmp/*``: 2537=========== 2538 2539ratelimit - INTEGER 2540 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 messages. 2541 2542 0 to disable any limiting, 2543 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds. 2544 2545 Default: 1000 2546 2547ratemask - list of comma separated ranges 2548 For ICMPv6 message types matching the ranges in the ratemask, limit 2549 the sending of the message according to ratelimit parameter. 2550 2551 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated 2552 list of ranges (e.g. "0-127,129" for ICMPv6 message type 0 to 127 and 2553 129). Writing to the file will clear all previous ranges of ICMPv6 2554 message types and update the current list with the input. 2555 2556 Refer to: https://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters/icmpv6-parameters.xhtml 2557 for numerical values of ICMPv6 message types, e.g. echo request is 128 2558 and echo reply is 129. 2559 2560 Default: 0-1,3-127 (rate limit ICMPv6 errors except Packet Too Big) 2561 2562echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN 2563 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO 2564 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol. 2565 2566 Default: 0 2567 2568echo_ignore_multicast - BOOLEAN 2569 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO 2570 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol via multicast. 2571 2572 Default: 0 2573 2574echo_ignore_anycast - BOOLEAN 2575 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO 2576 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol destined to anycast address. 2577 2578 Default: 0 2579 2580xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER 2581 (Obsolete since linux-4.14) 2582 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6 2583 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will 2584 refuse new allocations. 2585 2586 2587IPv6 Update by: 2588Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> 2589YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> 2590 2591 2592/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables: 2593================================= 2594 2595bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN 2596 - 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain. 2597 - 0 : disable this. 2598 2599 Default: 1 2600 2601bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN 2602 - 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains. 2603 - 0 : disable this. 2604 2605 Default: 1 2606 2607bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN 2608 - 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains. 2609 - 0 : disable this. 2610 2611 Default: 1 2612 2613bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN 2614 - 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables. 2615 - 0 : disable this. 2616 2617 Default: 0 2618 2619bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN 2620 - 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables. 2621 - 0 : disable this. 2622 2623 Default: 0 2624 2625bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN 2626 - 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan 2627 interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the 2628 vlan. This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the 2629 REDIRECT target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces. When no 2630 matching vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input 2631 device is set to the bridge interface. 2632 2633 - 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup. 2634 2635 Default: 0 2636 2637``proc/sys/net/sctp/*`` Variables: 2638================================== 2639 2640addip_enable - BOOLEAN 2641 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration 2642 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides 2643 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP 2644 associations. 2645 2646 1: Enable extension. 2647 2648 0: Disable extension. 2649 2650 Default: 0 2651 2652pf_enable - INTEGER 2653 Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value 2654 of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of 2655 both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state. 2656 Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace 2657 application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of 2658 pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans 2659 or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is 2660 enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable 2661 and disable pf state. See: 2662 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for 2663 details. 2664 2665 1: Enable pf. 2666 2667 0: Disable pf. 2668 2669 Default: 1 2670 2671pf_expose - INTEGER 2672 Unset or enable/disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state 2673 exposure. Applications can control the exposure of the PF path state 2674 in the SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event and the SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO 2675 sockopt. When it's unset, no SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event with 2676 SCTP_ADDR_PF state will be sent and a SCTP_PF-state transport info 2677 can be got via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt; When it's enabled, 2678 a SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent for a transport becoming 2679 SCTP_PF state and a SCTP_PF-state transport info can be got via 2680 SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt; When it's diabled, no 2681 SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent and it returns -EACCES when 2682 trying to get a SCTP_PF-state transport info via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO 2683 sockopt. 2684 2685 0: Unset pf state exposure, Compatible with old applications. 2686 2687 1: Disable pf state exposure. 2688 2689 2: Enable pf state exposure. 2690 2691 Default: 0 2692 2693addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN 2694 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of 2695 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new 2696 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts 2697 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older 2698 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while 2699 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability, 2700 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the 2701 authentication requirement. 2702 2703 == =============================================================== 2704 1 Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This 2705 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability 2706 with older implementations. 2707 2708 0 Enforce the authentication requirement 2709 == =============================================================== 2710 2711 Default: 0 2712 2713auth_enable - BOOLEAN 2714 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension 2715 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is 2716 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration 2717 (ADD-IP) extension. 2718 2719 - 1: Enable this extension. 2720 - 0: Disable this extension. 2721 2722 Default: 0 2723 2724prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN 2725 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which 2726 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected. 2727 2728 - 1: Enable extension 2729 - 0: Disable 2730 2731 Default: 1 2732 2733max_burst - INTEGER 2734 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It 2735 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be. 2736 2737 Default: 4 2738 2739association_max_retrans - INTEGER 2740 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can 2741 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value 2742 is exceeded, the association is terminated. 2743 2744 Default: 10 2745 2746max_init_retransmits - INTEGER 2747 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks 2748 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination 2749 unreachable and terminating. 2750 2751 Default: 8 2752 2753path_max_retrans - INTEGER 2754 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given 2755 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered 2756 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the 2757 association is multihomed. 2758 2759 Default: 5 2760 2761pf_retrans - INTEGER 2762 The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path 2763 before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one 2764 exist). Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that 2765 passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used. Its only 2766 deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack. This 2767 setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without 2768 having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See: 2769 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt 2770 for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans 2771 disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can 2772 be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to 2773 disable pf state. 2774 2775 Default: 0 2776 2777ps_retrans - INTEGER 2778 Primary.Switchover.Max.Retrans (PSMR), it's a tunable parameter coming 2779 from section-5 "Primary Path Switchover" in rfc7829. The primary path 2780 will be changed to another active path when the path error counter on 2781 the old primary path exceeds PSMR, so that "the SCTP sender is allowed 2782 to continue data transmission on a new working path even when the old 2783 primary destination address becomes active again". Note this feature 2784 is disabled by initializing 'ps_retrans' per netns as 0xffff by default, 2785 and its value can't be less than 'pf_retrans' when changing by sysctl. 2786 2787 Default: 0xffff 2788 2789rto_initial - INTEGER 2790 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used 2791 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval 2792 for retransmissions. 2793 2794 Default: 3000 2795 2796rto_max - INTEGER 2797 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This 2798 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions. 2799 2800 Default: 60000 2801 2802rto_min - INTEGER 2803 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This 2804 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions. 2805 2806 Default: 1000 2807 2808hb_interval - INTEGER 2809 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks 2810 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of 2811 a given path between 2 associations. 2812 2813 Default: 30000 2814 2815sack_timeout - INTEGER 2816 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait 2817 to send a SACK. 2818 2819 Default: 200 2820 2821valid_cookie_life - INTEGER 2822 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie 2823 is used during association establishment. 2824 2825 Default: 60000 2826 2827cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN 2828 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie 2829 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association 2830 2831 - 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension. 2832 - 0: Disable 2833 2834 Default: 1 2835 2836cookie_hmac_alg - STRING 2837 Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by 2838 a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk. 2839 Valid values are: 2840 2841 * md5 2842 * sha1 2843 * none 2844 2845 Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the 2846 configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and 2847 CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1). 2848 2849 Default: Dependent on configuration. MD5 if available, else SHA1 if 2850 available, else none. 2851 2852rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER 2853 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to 2854 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple 2855 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is 2856 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot 2857 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by 2858 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this, 2859 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space 2860 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described 2861 blocking. 2862 2863 - 1: rcvbuf space is per association 2864 - 0: rcvbuf space is per socket 2865 2866 Default: 0 2867 2868sndbuf_policy - INTEGER 2869 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space. 2870 2871 - 1: Send buffer is tracked per association 2872 - 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket. 2873 2874 Default: 0 2875 2876sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max 2877 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets. 2878 2879 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its 2880 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds 2881 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage. 2882 2883 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem. 2884 2885 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets. 2886 2887 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory. 2888 2889sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max 2890 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are 2891 ignored. 2892 2893 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket. 2894 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even 2895 under moderate memory pressure. 2896 2897 Default: 4K 2898 2899sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max 2900 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are 2901 ignored. 2902 2903 min: Minimum size of send buffer that can be used by SCTP sockets. 2904 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even 2905 under moderate memory pressure. 2906 2907 Default: 4K 2908 2909addr_scope_policy - INTEGER 2910 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00 2911 2912 - 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping 2913 - 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping 2914 - 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses 2915 - 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses 2916 2917 Default: 1 2918 2919udp_port - INTEGER 2920 The listening port for the local UDP tunneling sock. Normally it's 2921 using the IANA-assigned UDP port number 9899 (sctp-tunneling). 2922 2923 This UDP sock is used for processing the incoming UDP-encapsulated 2924 SCTP packets (from RFC6951), and shared by all applications in the 2925 same net namespace. This UDP sock will be closed when the value is 2926 set to 0. 2927 2928 The value will also be used to set the src port of the UDP header 2929 for the outgoing UDP-encapsulated SCTP packets. For the dest port, 2930 please refer to 'encap_port' below. 2931 2932 Default: 0 2933 2934encap_port - INTEGER 2935 The default remote UDP encapsulation port. 2936 2937 This value is used to set the dest port of the UDP header for the 2938 outgoing UDP-encapsulated SCTP packets by default. Users can also 2939 change the value for each sock/asoc/transport by using setsockopt. 2940 For further information, please refer to RFC6951. 2941 2942 Note that when connecting to a remote server, the client should set 2943 this to the port that the UDP tunneling sock on the peer server is 2944 listening to and the local UDP tunneling sock on the client also 2945 must be started. On the server, it would get the encap_port from 2946 the incoming packet's source port. 2947 2948 Default: 0 2949 2950plpmtud_probe_interval - INTEGER 2951 The time interval (in milliseconds) for the PLPMTUD probe timer, 2952 which is configured to expire after this period to receive an 2953 acknowledgment to a probe packet. This is also the time interval 2954 between the probes for the current pmtu when the probe search 2955 is done. 2956 2957 PLPMTUD will be disabled when 0 is set, and other values for it 2958 must be >= 5000. 2959 2960 Default: 0 2961 2962reconf_enable - BOOLEAN 2963 Enable or disable extension of Stream Reconfiguration functionality 2964 specified in RFC6525. This extension provides the ability to "reset" 2965 a stream, and it includes the Parameters of "Outgoing/Incoming SSN 2966 Reset", "SSN/TSN Reset" and "Add Outgoing/Incoming Streams". 2967 2968 - 1: Enable extension. 2969 - 0: Disable extension. 2970 2971 Default: 0 2972 2973intl_enable - BOOLEAN 2974 Enable or disable extension of User Message Interleaving functionality 2975 specified in RFC8260. This extension allows the interleaving of user 2976 messages sent on different streams. With this feature enabled, I-DATA 2977 chunk will replace DATA chunk to carry user messages if also supported 2978 by the peer. Note that to use this feature, one needs to set this option 2979 to 1 and also needs to set socket options SCTP_FRAGMENT_INTERLEAVE to 2 2980 and SCTP_INTERLEAVING_SUPPORTED to 1. 2981 2982 - 1: Enable extension. 2983 - 0: Disable extension. 2984 2985 Default: 0 2986 2987ecn_enable - BOOLEAN 2988 Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by SCTP. 2989 Like in TCP, ECN is used only when both ends of the SCTP connection 2990 indicate support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses 2991 due to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal congestion 2992 before having to drop packets. 2993 2994 1: Enable ecn. 2995 0: Disable ecn. 2996 2997 Default: 1 2998 2999 3000``/proc/sys/net/core/*`` 3001======================== 3002 3003 Please see: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries. 3004 3005 3006``/proc/sys/net/unix/*`` 3007======================== 3008 3009max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER 3010 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue 3011 3012 Default: 10 3013 3014