1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 3========= 4IP Sysctl 5========= 6 7/proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables 8============================== 9 10ip_forward - BOOLEAN 11 - 0 - disabled (default) 12 - not 0 - enabled 13 14 Forward Packets between interfaces. 15 16 This variable is special, its change resets all configuration 17 parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812 18 for routers) 19 20ip_default_ttl - INTEGER 21 Default value of TTL field (Time To Live) for outgoing (but not 22 forwarded) IP packets. Should be between 1 and 255 inclusive. 23 Default: 64 (as recommended by RFC1700) 24 25ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER 26 Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled in mode 1 and a 27 fragmentation-required ICMP is received, the PMTU to this 28 destination will be set to the smallest of the old MTU to 29 this destination and min_pmtu (see below). You will need 30 to raise min_pmtu to the smallest interface MTU on your system 31 manually if you want to avoid locally generated fragments. 32 33 In mode 2 incoming Path MTU Discovery messages will be 34 discarded. Outgoing frames are handled the same as in mode 1, 35 implicitly setting IP_PMTUDISC_DONT on every created socket. 36 37 Mode 3 is a hardened pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only 38 accept fragmentation-needed errors if the underlying protocol 39 can verify them besides a plain socket lookup. Current 40 protocols for which pmtu events will be honored are TCP, SCTP 41 and DCCP as they verify e.g. the sequence number or the 42 association. This mode should not be enabled globally but is 43 only intended to secure e.g. name servers in namespaces where 44 TCP path mtu must still work but path MTU information of other 45 protocols should be discarded. If enabled globally this mode 46 could break other protocols. 47 48 Possible values: 0-3 49 50 Default: FALSE 51 52min_pmtu - INTEGER 53 default 552 - minimum Path MTU. Unless this is changed mannually, 54 each cached pmtu will never be lower than this setting. 55 56ip_forward_use_pmtu - BOOLEAN 57 By default we don't trust protocol path MTUs while forwarding 58 because they could be easily forged and can lead to unwanted 59 fragmentation by the router. 60 You only need to enable this if you have user-space software 61 which tries to discover path mtus by itself and depends on the 62 kernel honoring this information. This is normally not the 63 case. 64 65 Default: 0 (disabled) 66 67 Possible values: 68 69 - 0 - disabled 70 - 1 - enabled 71 72fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN 73 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv4 reply packets that are not 74 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMP echo replies). 75 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the 76 fwmark of the packet they are replying to. 77 78 Default: 0 79 80fib_multipath_use_neigh - BOOLEAN 81 Use status of existing neighbor entry when determining nexthop for 82 multipath routes. If disabled, neighbor information is not used and 83 packets could be directed to a failed nexthop. Only valid for kernels 84 built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled. 85 86 Default: 0 (disabled) 87 88 Possible values: 89 90 - 0 - disabled 91 - 1 - enabled 92 93fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER 94 Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes. Only valid 95 for kernels built with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled. 96 97 Default: 0 (Layer 3) 98 99 Possible values: 100 101 - 0 - Layer 3 102 - 1 - Layer 4 103 - 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present 104 - 3 - Custom multipath hash. Fields used for multipath hash calculation 105 are determined by fib_multipath_hash_fields sysctl 106 107fib_multipath_hash_fields - UNSIGNED INTEGER 108 When fib_multipath_hash_policy is set to 3 (custom multipath hash), the 109 fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by this 110 sysctl. 111 112 This value is a bitmask which enables various fields for multipath hash 113 calculation. 114 115 Possible fields are: 116 117 ====== ============================ 118 0x0001 Source IP address 119 0x0002 Destination IP address 120 0x0004 IP protocol 121 0x0008 Unused (Flow Label) 122 0x0010 Source port 123 0x0020 Destination port 124 0x0040 Inner source IP address 125 0x0080 Inner destination IP address 126 0x0100 Inner IP protocol 127 0x0200 Inner Flow Label 128 0x0400 Inner source port 129 0x0800 Inner destination port 130 ====== ============================ 131 132 Default: 0x0007 (source IP, destination IP and IP protocol) 133 134fib_sync_mem - UNSIGNED INTEGER 135 Amount of dirty memory from fib entries that can be backlogged before 136 synchronize_rcu is forced. 137 138 Default: 512kB Minimum: 64kB Maximum: 64MB 139 140ip_forward_update_priority - INTEGER 141 Whether to update SKB priority from "TOS" field in IPv4 header after it 142 is forwarded. The new SKB priority is mapped from TOS field value 143 according to an rt_tos2priority table (see e.g. man tc-prio). 144 145 Default: 1 (Update priority.) 146 147 Possible values: 148 149 - 0 - Do not update priority. 150 - 1 - Update priority. 151 152route/max_size - INTEGER 153 Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase 154 this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes. 155 156 From linux kernel 3.6 onwards, this is deprecated for ipv4 157 as route cache is no longer used. 158 159neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER 160 Minimum number of entries to keep. Garbage collector will not 161 purge entries if there are fewer than this number. 162 163 Default: 128 164 165neigh/default/gc_thresh2 - INTEGER 166 Threshold when garbage collector becomes more aggressive about 167 purging entries. Entries older than 5 seconds will be cleared 168 when over this number. 169 170 Default: 512 171 172neigh/default/gc_thresh3 - INTEGER 173 Maximum number of non-PERMANENT neighbor entries allowed. Increase 174 this when using large numbers of interfaces and when communicating 175 with large numbers of directly-connected peers. 176 177 Default: 1024 178 179neigh/default/unres_qlen_bytes - INTEGER 180 The maximum number of bytes which may be used by packets 181 queued for each unresolved address by other network layers. 182 (added in linux 3.3) 183 184 Setting negative value is meaningless and will return error. 185 186 Default: SK_WMEM_MAX, (same as net.core.wmem_default). 187 188 Exact value depends on architecture and kernel options, 189 but should be enough to allow queuing 256 packets 190 of medium size. 191 192neigh/default/unres_qlen - INTEGER 193 The maximum number of packets which may be queued for each 194 unresolved address by other network layers. 195 196 (deprecated in linux 3.3) : use unres_qlen_bytes instead. 197 198 Prior to linux 3.3, the default value is 3 which may cause 199 unexpected packet loss. The current default value is calculated 200 according to default value of unres_qlen_bytes and true size of 201 packet. 202 203 Default: 101 204 205neigh/default/interval_probe_time_ms - INTEGER 206 The probe interval for neighbor entries with NTF_MANAGED flag, 207 the min value is 1. 208 209 Default: 5000 210 211mtu_expires - INTEGER 212 Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept. 213 214min_adv_mss - INTEGER 215 The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will 216 never be lower than this setting. 217 218fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER 219 Whether to emit RTM_NEWROUTE notifications whenever RTM_F_OFFLOAD/ 220 RTM_F_TRAP/RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flags are changed. 221 222 After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an 223 acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel, 224 but not necessarily in hardware. 225 It is also possible for a route already installed in hardware to change 226 its action and therefore its flags. For example, a host route that is 227 trapping packets can be "promoted" to perform decapsulation following 228 the installation of an IPinIP/VXLAN tunnel. 229 The notifications will indicate to user-space the state of the route. 230 231 Default: 0 (Do not emit notifications.) 232 233 Possible values: 234 235 - 0 - Do not emit notifications. 236 - 1 - Emit notifications. 237 - 2 - Emit notifications only for RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag change. 238 239IP Fragmentation: 240 241ipfrag_high_thresh - LONG INTEGER 242 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. 243 244ipfrag_low_thresh - LONG INTEGER 245 (Obsolete since linux-4.17) 246 Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments before the kernel 247 begins to remove incomplete fragment queues to free up resources. 248 The kernel still accepts new fragments for defragmentation. 249 250ipfrag_time - INTEGER 251 Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory. 252 253ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER 254 ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the 255 maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a 256 common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is 257 not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source 258 IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it 259 probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue 260 have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check 261 is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if 262 ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP 263 address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source 264 address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are 265 lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one 266 started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check. 267 268 Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can 269 result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal 270 reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application 271 performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the 272 likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate 273 from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption. 274 Default: 64 275 276bc_forwarding - INTEGER 277 bc_forwarding enables the feature described in rfc1812#section-5.3.5.2 278 and rfc2644. It allows the router to forward directed broadcast. 279 To enable this feature, the 'all' entry and the input interface entry 280 should be set to 1. 281 Default: 0 282 283INET peer storage 284================= 285 286inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER 287 The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold 288 entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines 289 entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection 290 passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval. 291 292inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER 293 Minimum time-to-live of entries. Should be enough to cover fragment 294 time-to-live on the reassembling side. This minimum time-to-live is 295 guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold. 296 Measured in seconds. 297 298inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER 299 Maximum time-to-live of entries. Unused entries will expire after 300 this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e. 301 when the number of entries in the pool is very small). 302 Measured in seconds. 303 304TCP variables 305============= 306 307somaxconn - INTEGER 308 Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN. 309 Defaults to 4096. (Was 128 before linux-5.4) 310 See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning for TCP sockets. 311 312tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN 313 If listening service is too slow to accept new connections, 314 reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow 315 occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this 316 option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon 317 cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this 318 option can harm clients of your server. 319 320tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER 321 Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale 322 (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale), 323 if it is <= 0. 324 325 Possible values are [-31, 31], inclusive. 326 327 Default: 1 328 329tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING 330 Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged 331 processes. The list is a subset of those listed in 332 tcp_available_congestion_control. 333 334 Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control). 335 336tcp_app_win - INTEGER 337 Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application 338 buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved. 339 340 Default: 31 341 342tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN 343 Enable TCP auto corking : 344 When applications do consecutive small write()/sendmsg() system calls, 345 we try to coalesce these small writes as much as possible, to lower 346 total amount of sent packets. This is done if at least one prior 347 packet for the flow is waiting in Qdisc queues or device transmit 348 queue. Applications can still use TCP_CORK for optimal behavior 349 when they know how/when to uncork their sockets. 350 351 Default : 1 352 353tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING 354 Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered. 355 More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules, 356 but not loaded. 357 358tcp_base_mss - INTEGER 359 The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer 360 Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled, 361 this is the initial MSS used by the connection. 362 363tcp_mtu_probe_floor - INTEGER 364 If MTU probing is enabled this caps the minimum MSS used for search_low 365 for the connection. 366 367 Default : 48 368 369tcp_min_snd_mss - INTEGER 370 TCP SYN and SYNACK messages usually advertise an ADVMSS option, 371 as described in RFC 1122 and RFC 6691. 372 373 If this ADVMSS option is smaller than tcp_min_snd_mss, 374 it is silently capped to tcp_min_snd_mss. 375 376 Default : 48 (at least 8 bytes of payload per segment) 377 378tcp_congestion_control - STRING 379 Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new 380 connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but 381 additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration. 382 Default is set as part of kernel configuration. 383 For passive connections, the listener congestion control choice 384 is inherited. 385 386 [see setsockopt(listenfd, SOL_TCP, TCP_CONGESTION, "name" ...) ] 387 388tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN 389 Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs. 390 391tcp_early_retrans - INTEGER 392 Tail loss probe (TLP) converts RTOs occurring due to tail 393 losses into fast recovery (draft-ietf-tcpm-rack). Note that 394 TLP requires RACK to function properly (see tcp_recovery below) 395 396 Possible values: 397 398 - 0 disables TLP 399 - 3 or 4 enables TLP 400 401 Default: 3 402 403tcp_ecn - INTEGER 404 Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by TCP. 405 ECN is used only when both ends of the TCP connection indicate 406 support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses due 407 to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal 408 congestion before having to drop packets. 409 410 Possible values are: 411 412 = ===================================================== 413 0 Disable ECN. Neither initiate nor accept ECN. 414 1 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections and 415 also request ECN on outgoing connection attempts. 416 2 Enable ECN when requested by incoming connections 417 but do not request ECN on outgoing connections. 418 = ===================================================== 419 420 Default: 2 421 422tcp_ecn_fallback - BOOLEAN 423 If the kernel detects that ECN connection misbehaves, enable fall 424 back to non-ECN. Currently, this knob implements the fallback 425 from RFC3168, section 6.1.1.1., but we reserve that in future, 426 additional detection mechanisms could be implemented under this 427 knob. The value is not used, if tcp_ecn or per route (or congestion 428 control) ECN settings are disabled. 429 430 Default: 1 (fallback enabled) 431 432tcp_fack - BOOLEAN 433 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore. 434 435tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER 436 The length of time an orphaned (no longer referenced by any 437 application) connection will remain in the FIN_WAIT_2 state 438 before it is aborted at the local end. While a perfectly 439 valid "receive only" state for an un-orphaned connection, an 440 orphaned connection in FIN_WAIT_2 state could otherwise wait 441 forever for the remote to close its end of the connection. 442 443 Cf. tcp_max_orphans 444 445 Default: 60 seconds 446 447tcp_frto - INTEGER 448 Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC5682. 449 F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission 450 timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in networks where the 451 RTT fluctuates (e.g., wireless). F-RTO is sender-side only 452 modification. It does not require any support from the peer. 453 454 By default it's enabled with a non-zero value. 0 disables F-RTO. 455 456tcp_fwmark_accept - BOOLEAN 457 If set, incoming connections to listening sockets that do not have a 458 socket mark will set the mark of the accepting socket to the fwmark of 459 the incoming SYN packet. This will cause all packets on that connection 460 (starting from the first SYNACK) to be sent with that fwmark. The 461 listening socket's mark is unchanged. Listening sockets that already 462 have a fwmark set via setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_MARK, ...) are 463 unaffected. 464 465 Default: 0 466 467tcp_invalid_ratelimit - INTEGER 468 Limit the maximal rate for sending duplicate acknowledgments 469 in response to incoming TCP packets that are for an existing 470 connection but that are invalid due to any of these reasons: 471 472 (a) out-of-window sequence number, 473 (b) out-of-window acknowledgment number, or 474 (c) PAWS (Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers) check failure 475 476 This can help mitigate simple "ack loop" DoS attacks, wherein 477 a buggy or malicious middlebox or man-in-the-middle can 478 rewrite TCP header fields in manner that causes each endpoint 479 to think that the other is sending invalid TCP segments, thus 480 causing each side to send an unterminating stream of duplicate 481 acknowledgments for invalid segments. 482 483 Using 0 disables rate-limiting of dupacks in response to 484 invalid segments; otherwise this value specifies the minimal 485 space between sending such dupacks, in milliseconds. 486 487 Default: 500 (milliseconds). 488 489tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER 490 How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled. 491 Default: 2hours. 492 493tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER 494 How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the 495 connection is broken. Default value: 9. 496 497tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER 498 How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by 499 tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection, 500 after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection 501 will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries. 502 503tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN 504 Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index. 505 Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work 506 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets 507 derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in 508 which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was 509 compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. 510 511 Default: 0 (disabled) 512 513tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN 514 This is a legacy option, it has no effect anymore. 515 516tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER 517 Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle, 518 held by system. If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are 519 reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists 520 only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this 521 or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it 522 (probably, after increasing installed memory), 523 if network conditions require more than default value, 524 and tune network services to linger and kill such states 525 more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats 526 up to ~64K of unswappable memory. 527 528tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER 529 Maximal number of remembered connection requests (SYN_RECV), 530 which have not received an acknowledgment from connecting client. 531 532 This is a per-listener limit. 533 534 The minimal value is 128 for low memory machines, and it will 535 increase in proportion to the memory of machine. 536 537 If server suffers from overload, try increasing this number. 538 539 Remember to also check /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn 540 A SYN_RECV request socket consumes about 304 bytes of memory. 541 542tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER 543 Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously. 544 If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed 545 and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent 546 simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially, 547 but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory), 548 if network conditions require more than default value. 549 550tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max 551 min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its 552 memory appetite. 553 554 pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number 555 of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory 556 pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls 557 under "min". 558 559 max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets. 560 561 Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available 562 memory. 563 564tcp_min_rtt_wlen - INTEGER 565 The window length of the windowed min filter to track the minimum RTT. 566 A shorter window lets a flow more quickly pick up new (higher) 567 minimum RTT when it is moved to a longer path (e.g., due to traffic 568 engineering). A longer window makes the filter more resistant to RTT 569 inflations such as transient congestion. The unit is seconds. 570 571 Possible values: 0 - 86400 (1 day) 572 573 Default: 300 574 575tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN 576 If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to 577 automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to 578 match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by 579 default. 580 581tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER 582 Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery. Takes three 583 values: 584 585 - 0 - Disabled 586 - 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected 587 - 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss. 588 589tcp_probe_interval - UNSIGNED INTEGER 590 Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU 591 Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as 592 per RFC4821. 593 594tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER 595 Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing 596 will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default 597 is 8 bytes. 598 599tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN 600 By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache 601 when the connection closes, so that connections established in the 602 near future can use these to set initial conditions. Usually, this 603 increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance 604 degradation. If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing 605 connections. 606 607tcp_no_ssthresh_metrics_save - BOOLEAN 608 Controls whether TCP saves ssthresh metrics in the route cache. 609 610 Default is 1, which disables ssthresh metrics. 611 612tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER 613 This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection, 614 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged. 615 See tcp_retries2 for more details. 616 617 The default value is 8. 618 619 If your machine is a loaded WEB server, 620 you should think about lowering this value, such sockets 621 may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans. 622 623tcp_recovery - INTEGER 624 This value is a bitmap to enable various experimental loss recovery 625 features. 626 627 ========= ============================================================= 628 RACK: 0x1 enables the RACK loss detection for fast detection of lost 629 retransmissions and tail drops. It also subsumes and disables 630 RFC6675 recovery for SACK connections. 631 632 RACK: 0x2 makes RACK's reordering window static (min_rtt/4). 633 634 RACK: 0x4 disables RACK's DUPACK threshold heuristic 635 ========= ============================================================= 636 637 Default: 0x1 638 639tcp_reflect_tos - BOOLEAN 640 For listening sockets, reuse the DSCP value of the initial SYN message 641 for outgoing packets. This allows to have both directions of a TCP 642 stream to use the same DSCP value, assuming DSCP remains unchanged for 643 the lifetime of the connection. 644 645 This options affects both IPv4 and IPv6. 646 647 Default: 0 (disabled) 648 649tcp_reordering - INTEGER 650 Initial reordering level of packets in a TCP stream. 651 TCP stack can then dynamically adjust flow reordering level 652 between this initial value and tcp_max_reordering 653 654 Default: 3 655 656tcp_max_reordering - INTEGER 657 Maximal reordering level of packets in a TCP stream. 658 300 is a fairly conservative value, but you might increase it 659 if paths are using per packet load balancing (like bonding rr mode) 660 661 Default: 300 662 663tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN 664 Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers. 665 On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in 666 certain TCP stacks. 667 668tcp_retries1 - INTEGER 669 This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that 670 something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions, 671 and reports this suspicion to the network layer. 672 See tcp_retries2 for more details. 673 674 RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the 675 default. 676 677tcp_retries2 - INTEGER 678 This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection, 679 when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged. 680 Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following 681 exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would 682 retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO. 683 684 The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6 685 seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout. 686 TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the 687 hypothetical timeout. 688 689 RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout, 690 which corresponds to a value of at least 8. 691 692tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN 693 If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset, 694 we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT 695 assassination. 696 697 Default: 0 698 699tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max 700 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets. 701 It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory 702 pressure. 703 704 Default: 4K 705 706 default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets. 707 This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols. 708 Default: 131072 bytes. 709 This value results in initial window of 65535. 710 711 max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically 712 selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override 713 net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables 714 automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which 715 case this value is ignored. 716 Default: between 131072 and 6MB, depending on RAM size. 717 718tcp_sack - BOOLEAN 719 Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS). 720 721tcp_comp_sack_delay_ns - LONG INTEGER 722 TCP tries to reduce number of SACK sent, using a timer 723 based on 5% of SRTT, capped by this sysctl, in nano seconds. 724 The default is 1ms, based on TSO autosizing period. 725 726 Default : 1,000,000 ns (1 ms) 727 728tcp_comp_sack_slack_ns - LONG INTEGER 729 This sysctl control the slack used when arming the 730 timer used by SACK compression. This gives extra time 731 for small RTT flows, and reduces system overhead by allowing 732 opportunistic reduction of timer interrupts. 733 734 Default : 100,000 ns (100 us) 735 736tcp_comp_sack_nr - INTEGER 737 Max number of SACK that can be compressed. 738 Using 0 disables SACK compression. 739 740 Default : 44 741 742tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN 743 If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion 744 window after an idle period. An idle period is defined at 745 the current RTO. If unset, the congestion window will not 746 be timed out after an idle period. 747 748 Default: 1 749 750tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN 751 Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field. 752 Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on 753 Linux might not communicate correctly with them. 754 755 Default: FALSE 756 757tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER 758 Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will 759 be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value 760 is 5, which corresponds to 31seconds till the last retransmission 761 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout 762 for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds. 763 764tcp_syncookies - INTEGER 765 Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES 766 Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket 767 overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack' 768 Default: 1 769 770 Note, that syncookies is fallback facility. 771 It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand 772 against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings 773 in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur 774 because of overload with legal connections, you should tune 775 another parameters until this warning disappear. 776 See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow. 777 778 syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow 779 to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation 780 of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you, 781 but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see 782 SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server 783 is seriously misconfigured. 784 785 If you want to test which effects syncookies have to your 786 network connections you can set this knob to 2 to enable 787 unconditionally generation of syncookies. 788 789tcp_migrate_req - BOOLEAN 790 The incoming connection is tied to a specific listening socket when 791 the initial SYN packet is received during the three-way handshake. 792 When a listener is closed, in-flight request sockets during the 793 handshake and established sockets in the accept queue are aborted. 794 795 If the listener has SO_REUSEPORT enabled, other listeners on the 796 same port should have been able to accept such connections. This 797 option makes it possible to migrate such child sockets to another 798 listener after close() or shutdown(). 799 800 The BPF_SK_REUSEPORT_SELECT_OR_MIGRATE type of eBPF program should 801 usually be used to define the policy to pick an alive listener. 802 Otherwise, the kernel will randomly pick an alive listener only if 803 this option is enabled. 804 805 Note that migration between listeners with different settings may 806 crash applications. Let's say migration happens from listener A to 807 B, and only B has TCP_SAVE_SYN enabled. B cannot read SYN data from 808 the requests migrated from A. To avoid such a situation, cancel 809 migration by returning SK_DROP in the type of eBPF program, or 810 disable this option. 811 812 Default: 0 813 814tcp_fastopen - INTEGER 815 Enable TCP Fast Open (RFC7413) to send and accept data in the opening 816 SYN packet. 817 818 The client support is enabled by flag 0x1 (on by default). The client 819 then must use sendmsg() or sendto() with the MSG_FASTOPEN flag, 820 rather than connect() to send data in SYN. 821 822 The server support is enabled by flag 0x2 (off by default). Then 823 either enable for all listeners with another flag (0x400) or 824 enable individual listeners via TCP_FASTOPEN socket option with 825 the option value being the length of the syn-data backlog. 826 827 The values (bitmap) are 828 829 ===== ======== ====================================================== 830 0x1 (client) enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client. 831 0x2 (server) enables the server support, i.e., allowing data in 832 a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the 833 application before 3-way handshake finishes. 834 0x4 (client) send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie 835 availability and without a cookie option. 836 0x200 (server) accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present. 837 0x400 (server) enable all listeners to support Fast Open by 838 default without explicit TCP_FASTOPEN socket option. 839 ===== ======== ====================================================== 840 841 Default: 0x1 842 843 Note that additional client or server features are only 844 effective if the basic support (0x1 and 0x2) are enabled respectively. 845 846tcp_fastopen_blackhole_timeout_sec - INTEGER 847 Initial time period in second to disable Fastopen on active TCP sockets 848 when a TFO firewall blackhole issue happens. 849 This time period will grow exponentially when more blackhole issues 850 get detected right after Fastopen is re-enabled and will reset to 851 initial value when the blackhole issue goes away. 852 0 to disable the blackhole detection. 853 854 By default, it is set to 0 (feature is disabled). 855 856tcp_fastopen_key - list of comma separated 32-digit hexadecimal INTEGERs 857 The list consists of a primary key and an optional backup key. The 858 primary key is used for both creating and validating cookies, while the 859 optional backup key is only used for validating cookies. The purpose of 860 the backup key is to maximize TFO validation when keys are rotated. 861 862 A randomly chosen primary key may be configured by the kernel if 863 the tcp_fastopen sysctl is set to 0x400 (see above), or if the 864 TCP_FASTOPEN setsockopt() optname is set and a key has not been 865 previously configured via sysctl. If keys are configured via 866 setsockopt() by using the TCP_FASTOPEN_KEY optname, then those 867 per-socket keys will be used instead of any keys that are specified via 868 sysctl. 869 870 A key is specified as 4 8-digit hexadecimal integers which are separated 871 by a '-' as: xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx. Leading zeros may be 872 omitted. A primary and a backup key may be specified by separating them 873 by a comma. If only one key is specified, it becomes the primary key and 874 any previously configured backup keys are removed. 875 876tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER 877 Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt 878 will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value 879 is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission 880 with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout 881 for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds. 882 883tcp_timestamps - INTEGER 884 Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323. 885 886 - 0: Disabled. 887 - 1: Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323 and use random offset for 888 each connection rather than only using the current time. 889 - 2: Like 1, but without random offsets. 890 891 Default: 1 892 893tcp_min_tso_segs - INTEGER 894 Minimal number of segments per TSO frame. 895 896 Since linux-3.12, TCP does an automatic sizing of TSO frames, 897 depending on flow rate, instead of filling 64Kbytes packets. 898 For specific usages, it's possible to force TCP to build big 899 TSO frames. Note that TCP stack might split too big TSO packets 900 if available window is too small. 901 902 Default: 2 903 904tcp_tso_rtt_log - INTEGER 905 Adjustment of TSO packet sizes based on min_rtt 906 907 Starting from linux-5.18, TCP autosizing can be tweaked 908 for flows having small RTT. 909 910 Old autosizing was splitting the pacing budget to send 1024 TSO 911 per second. 912 913 tso_packet_size = sk->sk_pacing_rate / 1024; 914 915 With the new mechanism, we increase this TSO sizing using: 916 917 distance = min_rtt_usec / (2^tcp_tso_rtt_log) 918 tso_packet_size += gso_max_size >> distance; 919 920 This means that flows between very close hosts can use bigger 921 TSO packets, reducing their cpu costs. 922 923 If you want to use the old autosizing, set this sysctl to 0. 924 925 Default: 9 (2^9 = 512 usec) 926 927tcp_pacing_ss_ratio - INTEGER 928 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied 929 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt) 930 If TCP is in slow start, tcp_pacing_ss_ratio is applied 931 to let TCP probe for bigger speeds, assuming cwnd can be 932 doubled every other RTT. 933 934 Default: 200 935 936tcp_pacing_ca_ratio - INTEGER 937 sk->sk_pacing_rate is set by TCP stack using a ratio applied 938 to current rate. (current_rate = cwnd * mss / srtt) 939 If TCP is in congestion avoidance phase, tcp_pacing_ca_ratio 940 is applied to conservatively probe for bigger throughput. 941 942 Default: 120 943 944tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER 945 This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window 946 can be consumed by a single TSO frame. 947 The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and 948 building larger TSO frames. 949 950 Default: 3 951 952tcp_tw_reuse - INTEGER 953 Enable reuse of TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is 954 safe from protocol viewpoint. 955 956 - 0 - disable 957 - 1 - global enable 958 - 2 - enable for loopback traffic only 959 960 It should not be changed without advice/request of technical 961 experts. 962 963 Default: 2 964 965tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN 966 Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323. 967 968tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max 969 min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets. 970 Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth. 971 972 Default: 4K 973 974 default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets. This 975 value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols. 976 977 It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default. 978 979 Default: 16K 980 981 max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned 982 send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override 983 net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables 984 automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case 985 this value is ignored. 986 987 Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size. 988 989tcp_notsent_lowat - UNSIGNED INTEGER 990 A TCP socket can control the amount of unsent bytes in its write queue, 991 thanks to TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option. poll()/select()/epoll() 992 reports POLLOUT events if the amount of unsent bytes is below a per 993 socket value, and if the write queue is not full. sendmsg() will 994 also not add new buffers if the limit is hit. 995 996 This global variable controls the amount of unsent data for 997 sockets not using TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT. For these sockets, a change 998 to the global variable has immediate effect. 999 1000 Default: UINT_MAX (0xFFFFFFFF) 1001 1002tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN 1003 If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the 1004 remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity. 1005 If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do 1006 not receive a window scaling option from them. 1007 1008 Default: 0 1009 1010tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN 1011 Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams. 1012 If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to 1013 determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight). 1014 As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear 1015 timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is 1016 initiated. This improves retransmission latency for 1017 non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent. 1018 For more information on thin streams, see 1019 Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.rst 1020 1021 Default: 0 1022 1023tcp_limit_output_bytes - INTEGER 1024 Controls TCP Small Queue limit per tcp socket. 1025 TCP bulk sender tends to increase packets in flight until it 1026 gets losses notifications. With SNDBUF autotuning, this can 1027 result in a large amount of packets queued on the local machine 1028 (e.g.: qdiscs, CPU backlog, or device) hurting latency of other 1029 flows, for typical pfifo_fast qdiscs. tcp_limit_output_bytes 1030 limits the number of bytes on qdisc or device to reduce artificial 1031 RTT/cwnd and reduce bufferbloat. 1032 1033 Default: 1048576 (16 * 65536) 1034 1035tcp_challenge_ack_limit - INTEGER 1036 Limits number of Challenge ACK sent per second, as recommended 1037 in RFC 5961 (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks) 1038 Note that this per netns rate limit can allow some side channel 1039 attacks and probably should not be enabled. 1040 TCP stack implements per TCP socket limits anyway. 1041 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited) 1042 1043tcp_ehash_entries - INTEGER 1044 Show the number of hash buckets for TCP sockets in the current 1045 networking namespace. 1046 1047 A negative value means the networking namespace does not own its 1048 hash buckets and shares the initial networking namespace's one. 1049 1050tcp_child_ehash_entries - INTEGER 1051 Control the number of hash buckets for TCP sockets in the child 1052 networking namespace, which must be set before clone() or unshare(). 1053 1054 If the value is not 0, the kernel uses a value rounded up to 2^n 1055 as the actual hash bucket size. 0 is a special value, meaning 1056 the child networking namespace will share the initial networking 1057 namespace's hash buckets. 1058 1059 Note that the child will use the global one in case the kernel 1060 fails to allocate enough memory. In addition, the global hash 1061 buckets are spread over available NUMA nodes, but the allocation 1062 of the child hash table depends on the current process's NUMA 1063 policy, which could result in performance differences. 1064 1065 Note also that the default value of tcp_max_tw_buckets and 1066 tcp_max_syn_backlog depend on the hash bucket size. 1067 1068 Possible values: 0, 2^n (n: 0 - 24 (16Mi)) 1069 1070 Default: 0 1071 1072UDP variables 1073============= 1074 1075udp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN 1076 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work 1077 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of 1078 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they 1079 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with 1080 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. 1081 1082 Default: 0 (disabled) 1083 1084udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max 1085 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets. 1086 1087 min: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets. 1088 1089 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem. 1090 1091 max: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem. 1092 1093 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory. 1094 1095udp_rmem_min - INTEGER 1096 Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation. 1097 Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if 1098 total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte. 1099 1100 Default: 4K 1101 1102udp_wmem_min - INTEGER 1103 UDP does not have tx memory accounting and this tunable has no effect. 1104 1105RAW variables 1106============= 1107 1108raw_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN 1109 Enabling this option allows a "global" bound socket to work 1110 across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with packets capable of 1111 being received regardless of the L3 domain in which they 1112 originated. Only valid when the kernel was compiled with 1113 CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV. 1114 1115 Default: 1 (enabled) 1116 1117CIPSOv4 Variables 1118================= 1119 1120cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN 1121 If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping 1122 cache. If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a 1123 miss. However, regardless of the setting the cache is still 1124 invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and 1125 off and the cache will always be "safe". 1126 1127 Default: 1 1128 1129cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER 1130 The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each 1131 hash bucket containing a number of cache entries. This variable limits 1132 the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value is, the 1133 more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached. When the number of 1134 entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries 1135 causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room. 1136 1137 Default: 10 1138 1139cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN 1140 Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of 1141 the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details). 1142 This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty 1143 categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned. 1144 1145 Default: 0 1146 1147cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN 1148 If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when 1149 ip_options_compile() is called. If unset, relax the checks done during 1150 ip_options_compile(). Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else 1151 where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should 1152 result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems 1153 with other implementations that require strict checking. 1154 1155 Default: 0 1156 1157IP Variables 1158============ 1159 1160ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS 1161 Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to 1162 choose the local port. The first number is the first, the 1163 second the last local port number. 1164 If possible, it is better these numbers have different parity 1165 (one even and one odd value). 1166 Must be greater than or equal to ip_unprivileged_port_start. 1167 The default values are 32768 and 60999 respectively. 1168 1169ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges 1170 Specify the ports which are reserved for known third-party 1171 applications. These ports will not be used by automatic port 1172 assignments (e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port 1173 number 0). Explicit port allocation behavior is unchanged. 1174 1175 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated 1176 list of ranges (e.g. "1,2-4,10-10" for ports 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1177 10). Writing to the file will clear all previously reserved 1178 ports and update the current list with the one given in the 1179 input. 1180 1181 Note that ip_local_port_range and ip_local_reserved_ports 1182 settings are independent and both are considered by the kernel 1183 when determining which ports are available for automatic port 1184 assignments. 1185 1186 You can reserve ports which are not in the current 1187 ip_local_port_range, e.g.:: 1188 1189 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range 1190 32000 60999 1191 $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports 1192 8080,9148 1193 1194 although this is redundant. However such a setting is useful 1195 if later the port range is changed to a value that will 1196 include the reserved ports. Also keep in mind, that overlapping 1197 of these ranges may affect probability of selecting ephemeral 1198 ports which are right after block of reserved ports. 1199 1200 Default: Empty 1201 1202ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER 1203 This is a per-namespace sysctl. It defines the first 1204 unprivileged port in the network namespace. Privileged ports 1205 require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them. 1206 To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0. They must not 1207 overlap with the ip_local_port_range. 1208 1209 Default: 1024 1210 1211ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN 1212 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses, 1213 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications. 1214 1215 Default: 0 1216 1217ip_autobind_reuse - BOOLEAN 1218 By default, bind() does not select the ports automatically even if 1219 the new socket and all sockets bound to the port have SO_REUSEADDR. 1220 ip_autobind_reuse allows bind() to reuse the port and this is useful 1221 when you use bind()+connect(), but may break some applications. 1222 The preferred solution is to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT and this 1223 option should only be set by experts. 1224 Default: 0 1225 1226ip_dynaddr - INTEGER 1227 If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses. 1228 If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log 1229 message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting 1230 occurs. 1231 1232 Default: 0 1233 1234ip_early_demux - BOOLEAN 1235 Optimize input packet processing down to one demux for 1236 certain kinds of local sockets. Currently we only do this 1237 for established TCP and connected UDP sockets. 1238 1239 It may add an additional cost for pure routing workloads that 1240 reduces overall throughput, in such case you should disable it. 1241 1242 Default: 1 1243 1244ping_group_range - 2 INTEGERS 1245 Restrict ICMP_PROTO datagram sockets to users in the group range. 1246 The default is "1 0", meaning, that nobody (not even root) may 1247 create ping sockets. Setting it to "100 100" would grant permissions 1248 to the single group. "0 4294967295" would enable it for the world, "100 1249 4294967295" would enable it for the users, but not daemons. 1250 1251tcp_early_demux - BOOLEAN 1252 Enable early demux for established TCP sockets. 1253 1254 Default: 1 1255 1256udp_early_demux - BOOLEAN 1257 Enable early demux for connected UDP sockets. Disable this if 1258 your system could experience more unconnected load. 1259 1260 Default: 1 1261 1262icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN 1263 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO 1264 requests sent to it. 1265 1266 Default: 0 1267 1268icmp_echo_enable_probe - BOOLEAN 1269 If set to one, then the kernel will respond to RFC 8335 PROBE 1270 requests sent to it. 1271 1272 Default: 0 1273 1274icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN 1275 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and 1276 TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast. 1277 1278 Default: 1 1279 1280icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER 1281 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches 1282 icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets. 1283 0 to disable any limiting, 1284 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds. 1285 Note that another sysctl, icmp_msgs_per_sec limits the number 1286 of ICMP packets sent on all targets. 1287 1288 Default: 1000 1289 1290icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER 1291 Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host. 1292 Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are 1293 controlled by this limit. For security reasons, the precise count 1294 of messages per second is randomized. 1295 1296 Default: 1000 1297 1298icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER 1299 icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second, 1300 while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets. 1301 For security reasons, the precise burst size is randomized. 1302 1303 Default: 50 1304 1305icmp_ratemask - INTEGER 1306 Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited. 1307 1308 Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210 1309 1310 Default mask: 0000001100000011000 (6168) 1311 1312 Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h): 1313 1314 = ========================= 1315 0 Echo Reply 1316 3 Destination Unreachable [1]_ 1317 4 Source Quench [1]_ 1318 5 Redirect 1319 8 Echo Request 1320 B Time Exceeded [1]_ 1321 C Parameter Problem [1]_ 1322 D Timestamp Request 1323 E Timestamp Reply 1324 F Info Request 1325 G Info Reply 1326 H Address Mask Request 1327 I Address Mask Reply 1328 = ========================= 1329 1330 .. [1] These are rate limited by default (see default mask above) 1331 1332icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN 1333 Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast 1334 frames. Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning. 1335 If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which 1336 will avoid log file clutter. 1337 1338 Default: 1 1339 1340icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN 1341 1342 If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of 1343 the exiting interface. 1344 1345 If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of 1346 the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error. 1347 This is the behaviour many network administrators will expect from 1348 a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts 1349 much easier. 1350 1351 Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected, 1352 then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that 1353 has one will be used regardless of this setting. 1354 1355 Default: 0 1356 1357igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER 1358 Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to. 1359 Default: 20 1360 1361 Theoretical maximum value is bounded by having to send a membership 1362 report in a single datagram (i.e. the report can't span multiple 1363 datagrams, or risk confusing the switch and leaving groups you don't 1364 intend to). 1365 1366 The number of supported groups 'M' is bounded by the number of group 1367 report entries you can fit into a single datagram of 65535 bytes. 1368 1369 M = 65536-sizeof (ip header)/(sizeof(Group record)) 1370 1371 Group records are variable length, with a minimum of 12 bytes. 1372 So net.ipv4.igmp_max_memberships should not be set higher than: 1373 1374 (65536-24) / 12 = 5459 1375 1376 The value 5459 assumes no IP header options, so in practice 1377 this number may be lower. 1378 1379igmp_max_msf - INTEGER 1380 Maximum number of addresses allowed in the source filter list for a 1381 multicast group. 1382 1383 Default: 10 1384 1385igmp_qrv - INTEGER 1386 Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1). 1387 1388 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1) 1389 1390 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5) 1391 1392force_igmp_version - INTEGER 1393 - 0 - (default) No enforcement of a IGMP version, IGMPv1/v2 fallback 1394 allowed. Will back to IGMPv3 mode again if all IGMPv1/v2 Querier 1395 Present timer expires. 1396 - 1 - Enforce to use IGMP version 1. Will also reply IGMPv1 report if 1397 receive IGMPv2/v3 query. 1398 - 2 - Enforce to use IGMP version 2. Will fallback to IGMPv1 if receive 1399 IGMPv1 query message. Will reply report if receive IGMPv3 query. 1400 - 3 - Enforce to use IGMP version 3. The same react with default 0. 1401 1402 .. note:: 1403 1404 this is not the same with force_mld_version because IGMPv3 RFC3376 1405 Security Considerations does not have clear description that we could 1406 ignore other version messages completely as MLDv2 RFC3810. So make 1407 this value as default 0 is recommended. 1408 1409``conf/interface/*`` 1410 changes special settings per interface (where 1411 interface" is the name of your network interface) 1412 1413``conf/all/*`` 1414 is special, changes the settings for all interfaces 1415 1416log_martians - BOOLEAN 1417 Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log. 1418 log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1419 conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE, 1420 it will be disabled otherwise 1421 1422accept_redirects - BOOLEAN 1423 Accept ICMP redirect messages. 1424 accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if: 1425 1426 - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case 1427 forwarding for the interface is enabled 1428 1429 or 1430 1431 - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the 1432 case forwarding for the interface is disabled 1433 1434 accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise 1435 1436 default: 1437 1438 - TRUE (host) 1439 - FALSE (router) 1440 1441forwarding - BOOLEAN 1442 Enable IP forwarding on this interface. This controls whether packets 1443 received _on_ this interface can be forwarded. 1444 1445mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN 1446 Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE 1447 and a multicast routing daemon is required. 1448 conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast 1449 routing for the interface 1450 1451medium_id - INTEGER 1452 Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they 1453 are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when 1454 the broadcast packets are received only on one of them. 1455 The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface 1456 to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known. 1457 1458 Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior: 1459 the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between 1460 two devices attached to different media. 1461 1462proxy_arp - BOOLEAN 1463 Do proxy arp. 1464 1465 proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1466 conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE, 1467 it will be disabled otherwise 1468 1469proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN 1470 Private VLAN proxy arp. 1471 1472 Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface 1473 (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received). 1474 1475 This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC 1476 3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to 1477 communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to 1478 the upstream router. As described in RFC 3069, it is possible 1479 to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream 1480 router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with 1481 proxy_arp. 1482 1483 This technology is known by different names: 1484 1485 In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation. 1486 Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN. 1487 Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation. 1488 Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft). 1489 1490shared_media - BOOLEAN 1491 Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects. 1492 Overrides secure_redirects. 1493 1494 shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1495 conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE, 1496 it will be disabled otherwise 1497 1498 default TRUE 1499 1500secure_redirects - BOOLEAN 1501 Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the 1502 interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect 1503 rules still apply. 1504 1505 Overridden by shared_media. 1506 1507 secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1508 conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE, 1509 it will be disabled otherwise 1510 1511 default TRUE 1512 1513send_redirects - BOOLEAN 1514 Send redirects, if router. 1515 1516 send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1517 conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE, 1518 it will be disabled otherwise 1519 1520 Default: TRUE 1521 1522bootp_relay - BOOLEAN 1523 Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined 1524 not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that 1525 BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets. 1526 conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay 1527 for the interface 1528 1529 default FALSE 1530 1531 Not Implemented Yet. 1532 1533accept_source_route - BOOLEAN 1534 Accept packets with SRR option. 1535 conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets 1536 with SRR option on the interface 1537 1538 default 1539 1540 - TRUE (router) 1541 - FALSE (host) 1542 1543accept_local - BOOLEAN 1544 Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with 1545 suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two 1546 local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly. 1547 default FALSE 1548 1549route_localnet - BOOLEAN 1550 Do not consider loopback addresses as martian source or destination 1551 while routing. This enables the use of 127/8 for local routing purposes. 1552 1553 default FALSE 1554 1555rp_filter - INTEGER 1556 - 0 - No source validation. 1557 - 1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path 1558 Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface 1559 is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail. 1560 By default failed packets are discarded. 1561 - 2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path 1562 Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB 1563 and if the source address is not reachable via any interface 1564 the packet check will fail. 1565 1566 Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode 1567 to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing 1568 or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended. 1569 1570 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used 1571 when doing source validation on the {interface}. 1572 1573 Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it 1574 in startup scripts. 1575 1576src_valid_mark - BOOLEAN 1577 - 0 - The fwmark of the packet is not included in reverse path 1578 route lookup. This allows for asymmetric routing configurations 1579 utilizing the fwmark in only one direction, e.g., transparent 1580 proxying. 1581 1582 - 1 - The fwmark of the packet is included in reverse path route 1583 lookup. This permits rp_filter to function when the fwmark is 1584 used for routing traffic in both directions. 1585 1586 This setting also affects the utilization of fmwark when 1587 performing source address selection for ICMP replies, or 1588 determining addresses stored for the IPOPT_TS_TSANDADDR and 1589 IPOPT_RR IP options. 1590 1591 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/src_valid_mark is used. 1592 1593 Default value is 0. 1594 1595arp_filter - BOOLEAN 1596 - 1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same 1597 subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered 1598 based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from 1599 the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source 1600 based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control 1601 of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request. 1602 1603 - 0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses 1604 from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes 1605 sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication. 1606 IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by 1607 particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load- 1608 balancing, does this behaviour cause problems. 1609 1610 arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of 1611 conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE, 1612 it will be disabled otherwise 1613 1614arp_announce - INTEGER 1615 Define different restriction levels for announcing the local 1616 source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on 1617 interface: 1618 1619 - 0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface 1620 - 1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's 1621 subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target 1622 hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP 1623 address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network 1624 configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the 1625 request we will check all our subnets that include the 1626 target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from 1627 such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source 1628 address according to the rules for level 2. 1629 - 2 - Always use the best local address for this target. 1630 In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet 1631 and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with 1632 the target host. Such local address is selected by looking 1633 for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing 1634 interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable 1635 local address is found we select the first local address 1636 we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces, 1637 with the hope we will receive reply for our request and 1638 even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce. 1639 1640 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used. 1641 1642 Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for 1643 receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing 1644 the level announces more valid sender's information. 1645 1646arp_ignore - INTEGER 1647 Define different modes for sending replies in response to 1648 received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses: 1649 1650 - 0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured 1651 on any interface 1652 - 1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address 1653 configured on the incoming interface 1654 - 2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address 1655 configured on the incoming interface and both with the 1656 sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface 1657 - 3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host, 1658 only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied 1659 - 4-7 - reserved 1660 - 8 - do not reply for all local addresses 1661 1662 The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used 1663 when ARP request is received on the {interface} 1664 1665arp_notify - BOOLEAN 1666 Define mode for notification of address and device changes. 1667 1668 == ========================================================== 1669 0 (default): do nothing 1670 1 Generate gratuitous arp requests when device is brought up 1671 or hardware address changes. 1672 == ========================================================== 1673 1674arp_accept - INTEGER 1675 Define behavior for accepting gratuitous ARP (garp) frames from devices 1676 that are not already present in the ARP table: 1677 1678 - 0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table 1679 - 1 - create new entries in the ARP table 1680 - 2 - create new entries only if the source IP address is in the same 1681 subnet as an address configured on the interface that received the 1682 garp message. 1683 1684 Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the 1685 ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on. 1686 1687 If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the 1688 gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless 1689 if this setting is on or off. 1690 1691arp_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN 1692 Clears the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events. This option is important for 1693 wireless devices where the ARP cache should not be cleared when roaming 1694 between access points on the same network. In most cases this should 1695 remain as the default (1). 1696 1697 - 1 - (default): Clear the ARP cache on NOCARRIER events 1698 - 0 - Do not clear ARP cache on NOCARRIER events 1699 1700mcast_solicit - INTEGER 1701 The maximum number of multicast probes in INCOMPLETE state, 1702 when the associated hardware address is unknown. Defaults 1703 to 3. 1704 1705ucast_solicit - INTEGER 1706 The maximum number of unicast probes in PROBE state, when 1707 the hardware address is being reconfirmed. Defaults to 3. 1708 1709app_solicit - INTEGER 1710 The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon 1711 via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see 1712 mcast_resolicit). Defaults to 0. 1713 1714mcast_resolicit - INTEGER 1715 The maximum number of multicast probes after unicast and 1716 app probes in PROBE state. Defaults to 0. 1717 1718disable_policy - BOOLEAN 1719 Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface 1720 1721disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN 1722 Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy 1723 1724igmpv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 1725 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 1726 IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 report retransmit will take place. 1727 1728 Default: 10000 (10 seconds) 1729 1730igmpv3_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 1731 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 1732 IGMPv3 report retransmit will take place. 1733 1734 Default: 1000 (1 seconds) 1735 1736ignore_routes_with_linkdown - BOOLEAN 1737 Ignore routes whose link is down when performing a FIB lookup. 1738 1739promote_secondaries - BOOLEAN 1740 When a primary IP address is removed from this interface 1741 promote a corresponding secondary IP address instead of 1742 removing all the corresponding secondary IP addresses. 1743 1744drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN 1745 Drop any unicast IP packets that are received in link-layer 1746 multicast (or broadcast) frames. 1747 1748 This behavior (for multicast) is actually a SHOULD in RFC 1749 1122, but is disabled by default for compatibility reasons. 1750 1751 Default: off (0) 1752 1753drop_gratuitous_arp - BOOLEAN 1754 Drop all gratuitous ARP frames, for example if there's a known 1755 good ARP proxy on the network and such frames need not be used 1756 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.) 1757 1758 Default: off (0) 1759 1760 1761tag - INTEGER 1762 Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required. 1763 1764 Default value is 0. 1765 1766xfrm4_gc_thresh - INTEGER 1767 (Obsolete since linux-4.14) 1768 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv4 1769 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will 1770 refuse new allocations. 1771 1772igmp_link_local_mcast_reports - BOOLEAN 1773 Enable IGMP reports for link local multicast groups in the 1774 224.0.0.X range. 1775 1776 Default TRUE 1777 1778Alexey Kuznetsov. 1779kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru 1780 1781Updated by: 1782 1783- Andi Kleen 1784 ak@muc.de 1785- Nicolas Delon 1786 delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables 1792============================== 1793 1794IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also 1795apply to IPv6 [XXX?]. 1796 1797bindv6only - BOOLEAN 1798 Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option, 1799 which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication 1800 only. 1801 1802 - TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature 1803 - FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature 1804 1805 Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493) 1806 1807flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN 1808 Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label. 1809 You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the 1810 flow label manager. 1811 1812 - TRUE: enabled 1813 - FALSE: disabled 1814 1815 Default: TRUE 1816 1817auto_flowlabels - INTEGER 1818 Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the 1819 packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to 1820 identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath 1821 Routing (see RFC 6438). 1822 1823 = =========================================================== 1824 0 automatic flow labels are completely disabled 1825 1 automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be 1826 disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL 1827 socket option 1828 2 automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a 1829 per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option 1830 3 automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot 1831 be disabled by the socket option 1832 = =========================================================== 1833 1834 Default: 1 1835 1836flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN 1837 Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is 1838 reserved for the IPv6 flow manager facility, 0x80000-0xFFFFF 1839 is reserved for stateless flow labels as described in RFC6437. 1840 1841 - TRUE: enabled 1842 - FALSE: disabled 1843 1844 Default: true 1845 1846flowlabel_reflect - INTEGER 1847 Control flow label reflection. Needed for Path MTU 1848 Discovery to work with Equal Cost Multipath Routing in anycast 1849 environments. See RFC 7690 and: 1850 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection-01 1851 1852 This is a bitmask. 1853 1854 - 1: enabled for established flows 1855 1856 Note that this prevents automatic flowlabel changes, as done 1857 in "tcp: change IPv6 flow-label upon receiving spurious retransmission" 1858 and "tcp: Change txhash on every SYN and RTO retransmit" 1859 1860 - 2: enabled for TCP RESET packets (no active listener) 1861 If set, a RST packet sent in response to a SYN packet on a closed 1862 port will reflect the incoming flow label. 1863 1864 - 4: enabled for ICMPv6 echo reply messages. 1865 1866 Default: 0 1867 1868fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER 1869 Controls which hash policy to use for multipath routes. 1870 1871 Default: 0 (Layer 3) 1872 1873 Possible values: 1874 1875 - 0 - Layer 3 (source and destination addresses plus flow label) 1876 - 1 - Layer 4 (standard 5-tuple) 1877 - 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present 1878 - 3 - Custom multipath hash. Fields used for multipath hash calculation 1879 are determined by fib_multipath_hash_fields sysctl 1880 1881fib_multipath_hash_fields - UNSIGNED INTEGER 1882 When fib_multipath_hash_policy is set to 3 (custom multipath hash), the 1883 fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by this 1884 sysctl. 1885 1886 This value is a bitmask which enables various fields for multipath hash 1887 calculation. 1888 1889 Possible fields are: 1890 1891 ====== ============================ 1892 0x0001 Source IP address 1893 0x0002 Destination IP address 1894 0x0004 IP protocol 1895 0x0008 Flow Label 1896 0x0010 Source port 1897 0x0020 Destination port 1898 0x0040 Inner source IP address 1899 0x0080 Inner destination IP address 1900 0x0100 Inner IP protocol 1901 0x0200 Inner Flow Label 1902 0x0400 Inner source port 1903 0x0800 Inner destination port 1904 ====== ============================ 1905 1906 Default: 0x0007 (source IP, destination IP and IP protocol) 1907 1908anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN 1909 Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6 1910 echo reply 1911 1912 - TRUE: enabled 1913 - FALSE: disabled 1914 1915 Default: FALSE 1916 1917idgen_delay - INTEGER 1918 Controls the delay in seconds after which time to retry 1919 privacy stable address generation if a DAD conflict is 1920 detected. 1921 1922 Default: 1 (as specified in RFC7217) 1923 1924idgen_retries - INTEGER 1925 Controls the number of retries to generate a stable privacy 1926 address if a DAD conflict is detected. 1927 1928 Default: 3 (as specified in RFC7217) 1929 1930mld_qrv - INTEGER 1931 Controls the MLD query robustness variable (see RFC3810 9.1). 1932 1933 Default: 2 (as specified by RFC3810 9.1) 1934 1935 Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5) 1936 1937max_dst_opts_number - INTEGER 1938 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Destination 1939 options extension header. If this value is less than zero 1940 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known 1941 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number. 1942 1943 Default: 8 1944 1945max_hbh_opts_number - INTEGER 1946 Maximum number of non-padding TLVs allowed in a Hop-by-Hop 1947 options extension header. If this value is less than zero 1948 then unknown options are disallowed and the number of known 1949 TLVs allowed is the absolute value of this number. 1950 1951 Default: 8 1952 1953max_dst_opts_length - INTEGER 1954 Maximum length allowed for a Destination options extension 1955 header. 1956 1957 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited) 1958 1959max_hbh_length - INTEGER 1960 Maximum length allowed for a Hop-by-Hop options extension 1961 header. 1962 1963 Default: INT_MAX (unlimited) 1964 1965skip_notify_on_dev_down - BOOLEAN 1966 Controls whether an RTM_DELROUTE message is generated for routes 1967 removed when a device is taken down or deleted. IPv4 does not 1968 generate this message; IPv6 does by default. Setting this sysctl 1969 to true skips the message, making IPv4 and IPv6 on par in relying 1970 on userspace caches to track link events and evict routes. 1971 1972 Default: false (generate message) 1973 1974nexthop_compat_mode - BOOLEAN 1975 New nexthop API provides a means for managing nexthops independent of 1976 prefixes. Backwards compatibilty with old route format is enabled by 1977 default which means route dumps and notifications contain the new 1978 nexthop attribute but also the full, expanded nexthop definition. 1979 Further, updates or deletes of a nexthop configuration generate route 1980 notifications for each fib entry using the nexthop. Once a system 1981 understands the new API, this sysctl can be disabled to achieve full 1982 performance benefits of the new API by disabling the nexthop expansion 1983 and extraneous notifications. 1984 Default: true (backward compat mode) 1985 1986fib_notify_on_flag_change - INTEGER 1987 Whether to emit RTM_NEWROUTE notifications whenever RTM_F_OFFLOAD/ 1988 RTM_F_TRAP/RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flags are changed. 1989 1990 After installing a route to the kernel, user space receives an 1991 acknowledgment, which means the route was installed in the kernel, 1992 but not necessarily in hardware. 1993 It is also possible for a route already installed in hardware to change 1994 its action and therefore its flags. For example, a host route that is 1995 trapping packets can be "promoted" to perform decapsulation following 1996 the installation of an IPinIP/VXLAN tunnel. 1997 The notifications will indicate to user-space the state of the route. 1998 1999 Default: 0 (Do not emit notifications.) 2000 2001 Possible values: 2002 2003 - 0 - Do not emit notifications. 2004 - 1 - Emit notifications. 2005 - 2 - Emit notifications only for RTM_F_OFFLOAD_FAILED flag change. 2006 2007ioam6_id - INTEGER 2008 Define the IOAM id of this node. Uses only 24 bits out of 32 in total. 2009 2010 Min: 0 2011 Max: 0xFFFFFF 2012 2013 Default: 0xFFFFFF 2014 2015ioam6_id_wide - LONG INTEGER 2016 Define the wide IOAM id of this node. Uses only 56 bits out of 64 in 2017 total. Can be different from ioam6_id. 2018 2019 Min: 0 2020 Max: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 2021 2022 Default: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 2023 2024IPv6 Fragmentation: 2025 2026ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER 2027 Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When 2028 ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose, 2029 the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh 2030 is reached. 2031 2032ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER 2033 See ip6frag_high_thresh 2034 2035ip6frag_time - INTEGER 2036 Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory. 2037 2038``conf/default/*``: 2039 Change the interface-specific default settings. 2040 2041 These settings would be used during creating new interfaces. 2042 2043 2044``conf/all/*``: 2045 Change all the interface-specific settings. 2046 2047 [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?] 2048 2049conf/all/disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN 2050 Changing this value is same as changing ``conf/default/disable_ipv6`` 2051 setting and also all per-interface ``disable_ipv6`` settings to the same 2052 value. 2053 2054 Reading this value does not have any particular meaning. It does not say 2055 whether IPv6 support is enabled or disabled. Returned value can be 1 2056 also in the case when some interface has ``disable_ipv6`` set to 0 and 2057 has configured IPv6 addresses. 2058 2059conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN 2060 Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces. 2061 2062 IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used 2063 to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not. 2064 2065 This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting 2066 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details. 2067 2068 This referred to as global forwarding. 2069 2070proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN 2071 Do proxy ndp. 2072 2073fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN 2074 Controls the fwmark of kernel-generated IPv6 reply packets that are not 2075 associated with a socket for example, TCP RSTs or ICMPv6 echo replies). 2076 If unset, these packets have a fwmark of zero. If set, they have the 2077 fwmark of the packet they are replying to. 2078 2079 Default: 0 2080 2081``conf/interface/*``: 2082 Change special settings per interface. 2083 2084 The functional behaviour for certain settings is different 2085 depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not. 2086 2087accept_ra - INTEGER 2088 Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them. 2089 2090 It also determines whether or not to transmit Router 2091 Solicitations. If and only if the functional setting is to 2092 accept Router Advertisements, Router Solicitations will be 2093 transmitted. 2094 2095 Possible values are: 2096 2097 == =========================================================== 2098 0 Do not accept Router Advertisements. 2099 1 Accept Router Advertisements if forwarding is disabled. 2100 2 Overrule forwarding behaviour. Accept Router Advertisements 2101 even if forwarding is enabled. 2102 == =========================================================== 2103 2104 Functional default: 2105 2106 - enabled if local forwarding is disabled. 2107 - disabled if local forwarding is enabled. 2108 2109accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN 2110 Learn default router in Router Advertisement. 2111 2112 Functional default: 2113 2114 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 2115 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 2116 2117ra_defrtr_metric - UNSIGNED INTEGER 2118 Route metric for default route learned in Router Advertisement. This value 2119 will be assigned as metric for the default route learned via IPv6 Router 2120 Advertisement. Takes affect only if accept_ra_defrtr is enabled. 2121 2122 Possible values: 2123 1 to 0xFFFFFFFF 2124 2125 Default: IP6_RT_PRIO_USER i.e. 1024. 2126 2127accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN 2128 Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine 2129 if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted. 2130 2131 Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended 2132 network loop. 2133 2134 Functional default: 2135 2136 - enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled 2137 on a specific interface. 2138 - disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled 2139 on a specific interface. 2140 2141accept_ra_min_hop_limit - INTEGER 2142 Minimum hop limit Information in Router Advertisement. 2143 2144 Hop limit Information in Router Advertisement less than this 2145 variable shall be ignored. 2146 2147 Default: 1 2148 2149accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN 2150 Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement. 2151 2152 Functional default: 2153 2154 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 2155 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 2156 2157accept_ra_rt_info_min_plen - INTEGER 2158 Minimum prefix length of Route Information in RA. 2159 2160 Route Information w/ prefix smaller than this variable shall 2161 be ignored. 2162 2163 Functional default: 2164 2165 * 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled. 2166 * -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled. 2167 2168accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER 2169 Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA. 2170 2171 Route Information w/ prefix larger than this variable shall 2172 be ignored. 2173 2174 Functional default: 2175 2176 * 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled. 2177 * -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled. 2178 2179accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN 2180 Accept Router Preference in RA. 2181 2182 Functional default: 2183 2184 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 2185 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 2186 2187accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN 2188 Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If 2189 disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored. 2190 2191 Functional default: 2192 2193 - enabled if accept_ra is enabled. 2194 - disabled if accept_ra is disabled. 2195 2196accept_redirects - BOOLEAN 2197 Accept Redirects. 2198 2199 Functional default: 2200 2201 - enabled if local forwarding is disabled. 2202 - disabled if local forwarding is enabled. 2203 2204accept_source_route - INTEGER 2205 Accept source routing (routing extension header). 2206 2207 - >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2. 2208 - < 0: Do not accept routing header. 2209 2210 Default: 0 2211 2212autoconf - BOOLEAN 2213 Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router 2214 Advertisements. 2215 2216 Functional default: 2217 2218 - enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled. 2219 - disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled. 2220 2221dad_transmits - INTEGER 2222 The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send. 2223 2224 Default: 1 2225 2226forwarding - INTEGER 2227 Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour. 2228 2229 .. note:: 2230 2231 It is recommended to have the same setting on all 2232 interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon. 2233 2234 Possible values are: 2235 2236 - 0 Forwarding disabled 2237 - 1 Forwarding enabled 2238 2239 **FALSE (0)**: 2240 2241 By default, Host behaviour is assumed. This means: 2242 2243 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements. 2244 2. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), transmit Router 2245 Solicitations. 2246 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router 2247 Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration). 2248 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects. 2249 2250 **TRUE (1)**: 2251 2252 If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed. 2253 This means exactly the reverse from the above: 2254 2255 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements. 2256 2. Router Solicitations are not sent unless accept_ra is 2. 2257 3. Router Advertisements are ignored unless accept_ra is 2. 2258 4. Redirects are ignored. 2259 2260 Default: 0 (disabled) if global forwarding is disabled (default), 2261 otherwise 1 (enabled). 2262 2263hop_limit - INTEGER 2264 Default Hop Limit to set. 2265 2266 Default: 64 2267 2268mtu - INTEGER 2269 Default Maximum Transfer Unit 2270 2271 Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum) 2272 2273ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN 2274 If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IPv6 addresses, 2275 which can be quite useful - but may break some applications. 2276 2277 Default: 0 2278 2279router_probe_interval - INTEGER 2280 Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described 2281 in RFC4191. 2282 2283 Default: 60 2284 2285router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER 2286 Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up 2287 before sending Router Solicitations. 2288 2289 Default: 1 2290 2291router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER 2292 Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations. 2293 2294 Default: 4 2295 2296router_solicitations - INTEGER 2297 Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no 2298 routers are present. 2299 2300 Default: 3 2301 2302use_oif_addrs_only - BOOLEAN 2303 When enabled, the candidate source addresses for destinations 2304 routed via this interface are restricted to the set of addresses 2305 configured on this interface (vis. RFC 6724, section 4). 2306 2307 Default: false 2308 2309use_tempaddr - INTEGER 2310 Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041). 2311 2312 * <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions 2313 * == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public 2314 addresses over temporary addresses. 2315 * > 1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary 2316 addresses over public addresses. 2317 2318 Default: 2319 2320 * 0 (for most devices) 2321 * -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices) 2322 2323temp_valid_lft - INTEGER 2324 valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. 2325 2326 Default: 172800 (2 days) 2327 2328temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER 2329 Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. 2330 2331 Default: 86400 (1 day) 2332 2333keep_addr_on_down - INTEGER 2334 Keep all IPv6 addresses on an interface down event. If set static 2335 global addresses with no expiration time are not flushed. 2336 2337 * >0 : enabled 2338 * 0 : system default 2339 * <0 : disabled 2340 2341 Default: 0 (addresses are removed) 2342 2343max_desync_factor - INTEGER 2344 Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value 2345 that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each 2346 other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time. 2347 value is in seconds. 2348 2349 Default: 600 2350 2351regen_max_retry - INTEGER 2352 Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate 2353 valid temporary addresses. 2354 2355 Default: 5 2356 2357max_addresses - INTEGER 2358 Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting 2359 to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this 2360 value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to 2361 crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created. 2362 2363 Default: 16 2364 2365disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN 2366 Disable IPv6 operation. If accept_dad is set to 2, this value 2367 will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local 2368 address. 2369 2370 Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation) 2371 2372 When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled), 2373 it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given 2374 interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary. 2375 2376 When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled), 2377 it will dynamically delete all addresses and routes on the given 2378 interface. From now on it will not possible to add addresses/routes 2379 to the selected interface. 2380 2381accept_dad - INTEGER 2382 Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection). 2383 2384 == ============================================================== 2385 0 Disable DAD 2386 1 Enable DAD (default) 2387 2 Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate 2388 link-local address has been found. 2389 == ============================================================== 2390 2391 DAD operation and mode on a given interface will be selected according 2392 to the maximum value of conf/{all,interface}/accept_dad. 2393 2394force_tllao - BOOLEAN 2395 Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when 2396 responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation. 2397 2398 Default: FALSE 2399 2400 Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address: 2401 2402 "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to 2403 avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node 2404 does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements 2405 message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be 2406 omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link- 2407 layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast 2408 solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer 2409 address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential 2410 race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address 2411 prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation." 2412 2413ndisc_notify - BOOLEAN 2414 Define mode for notification of address and device changes. 2415 2416 * 0 - (default): do nothing 2417 * 1 - Generate unsolicited neighbour advertisements when device is brought 2418 up or hardware address changes. 2419 2420ndisc_tclass - INTEGER 2421 The IPv6 Traffic Class to use by default when sending IPv6 Neighbor 2422 Discovery (Router Solicitation, Router Advertisement, Neighbor 2423 Solicitation, Neighbor Advertisement, Redirect) messages. 2424 These 8 bits can be interpreted as 6 high order bits holding the DSCP 2425 value and 2 low order bits representing ECN (which you probably want 2426 to leave cleared). 2427 2428 * 0 - (default) 2429 2430ndisc_evict_nocarrier - BOOLEAN 2431 Clears the neighbor discovery table on NOCARRIER events. This option is 2432 important for wireless devices where the neighbor discovery cache should 2433 not be cleared when roaming between access points on the same network. 2434 In most cases this should remain as the default (1). 2435 2436 - 1 - (default): Clear neighbor discover cache on NOCARRIER events. 2437 - 0 - Do not clear neighbor discovery cache on NOCARRIER events. 2438 2439mldv1_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 2440 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 2441 MLDv1 report retransmit will take place. 2442 2443 Default: 10000 (10 seconds) 2444 2445mldv2_unsolicited_report_interval - INTEGER 2446 The interval in milliseconds in which the next unsolicited 2447 MLDv2 report retransmit will take place. 2448 2449 Default: 1000 (1 second) 2450 2451force_mld_version - INTEGER 2452 * 0 - (default) No enforcement of a MLD version, MLDv1 fallback allowed 2453 * 1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1 2454 * 2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2 2455 2456suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER 2457 Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation 2458 with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior: 2459 2460 * 1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets 2461 * 0 - allow fragmented neighbor discovery packets 2462 2463optimistic_dad - BOOLEAN 2464 Whether to perform Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (RFC 4429). 2465 2466 * 0: disabled (default) 2467 * 1: enabled 2468 2469 Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for the interface will be enabled 2470 if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/optimistic_dad is set to 1, 2471 it will be disabled otherwise. 2472 2473use_optimistic - BOOLEAN 2474 If enabled, do not classify optimistic addresses as deprecated during 2475 source address selection. Preferred addresses will still be chosen 2476 before optimistic addresses, subject to other ranking in the source 2477 address selection algorithm. 2478 2479 * 0: disabled (default) 2480 * 1: enabled 2481 2482 This will be enabled if at least one of 2483 conf/{all,interface}/use_optimistic is set to 1, disabled otherwise. 2484 2485stable_secret - IPv6 address 2486 This IPv6 address will be used as a secret to generate IPv6 2487 addresses for link-local addresses and autoconfigured 2488 ones. All addresses generated after setting this secret will 2489 be stable privacy ones by default. This can be changed via the 2490 addrgenmode ip-link. conf/default/stable_secret is used as the 2491 secret for the namespace, the interface specific ones can 2492 overwrite that. Writes to conf/all/stable_secret are refused. 2493 2494 It is recommended to generate this secret during installation 2495 of a system and keep it stable after that. 2496 2497 By default the stable secret is unset. 2498 2499addr_gen_mode - INTEGER 2500 Defines how link-local and autoconf addresses are generated. 2501 2502 = ================================================================= 2503 0 generate address based on EUI64 (default) 2504 1 do no generate a link-local address, use EUI64 for addresses 2505 generated from autoconf 2506 2 generate stable privacy addresses, using the secret from 2507 stable_secret (RFC7217) 2508 3 generate stable privacy addresses, using a random secret if unset 2509 = ================================================================= 2510 2511drop_unicast_in_l2_multicast - BOOLEAN 2512 Drop any unicast IPv6 packets that are received in link-layer 2513 multicast (or broadcast) frames. 2514 2515 By default this is turned off. 2516 2517drop_unsolicited_na - BOOLEAN 2518 Drop all unsolicited neighbor advertisements, for example if there's 2519 a known good NA proxy on the network and such frames need not be used 2520 (or in the case of 802.11, must not be used to prevent attacks.) 2521 2522 By default this is turned off. 2523 2524accept_untracked_na - INTEGER 2525 Define behavior for accepting neighbor advertisements from devices that 2526 are absent in the neighbor cache: 2527 2528 - 0 - (default) Do not accept unsolicited and untracked neighbor 2529 advertisements. 2530 2531 - 1 - Add a new neighbor cache entry in STALE state for routers on 2532 receiving a neighbor advertisement (either solicited or unsolicited) 2533 with target link-layer address option specified if no neighbor entry 2534 is already present for the advertised IPv6 address. Without this knob, 2535 NAs received for untracked addresses (absent in neighbor cache) are 2536 silently ignored. 2537 2538 This is as per router-side behavior documented in RFC9131. 2539 2540 This has lower precedence than drop_unsolicited_na. 2541 2542 This will optimize the return path for the initial off-link 2543 communication that is initiated by a directly connected host, by 2544 ensuring that the first-hop router which turns on this setting doesn't 2545 have to buffer the initial return packets to do neighbor-solicitation. 2546 The prerequisite is that the host is configured to send unsolicited 2547 neighbor advertisements on interface bringup. This setting should be 2548 used in conjunction with the ndisc_notify setting on the host to 2549 satisfy this prerequisite. 2550 2551 - 2 - Extend option (1) to add a new neighbor cache entry only if the 2552 source IP address is in the same subnet as an address configured on 2553 the interface that received the neighbor advertisement. 2554 2555enhanced_dad - BOOLEAN 2556 Include a nonce option in the IPv6 neighbor solicitation messages used for 2557 duplicate address detection per RFC7527. A received DAD NS will only signal 2558 a duplicate address if the nonce is different. This avoids any false 2559 detection of duplicates due to loopback of the NS messages that we send. 2560 The nonce option will be sent on an interface unless both of 2561 conf/{all,interface}/enhanced_dad are set to FALSE. 2562 2563 Default: TRUE 2564 2565``icmp/*``: 2566=========== 2567 2568ratelimit - INTEGER 2569 Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 messages. 2570 2571 0 to disable any limiting, 2572 otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds. 2573 2574 Default: 1000 2575 2576ratemask - list of comma separated ranges 2577 For ICMPv6 message types matching the ranges in the ratemask, limit 2578 the sending of the message according to ratelimit parameter. 2579 2580 The format used for both input and output is a comma separated 2581 list of ranges (e.g. "0-127,129" for ICMPv6 message type 0 to 127 and 2582 129). Writing to the file will clear all previous ranges of ICMPv6 2583 message types and update the current list with the input. 2584 2585 Refer to: https://www.iana.org/assignments/icmpv6-parameters/icmpv6-parameters.xhtml 2586 for numerical values of ICMPv6 message types, e.g. echo request is 128 2587 and echo reply is 129. 2588 2589 Default: 0-1,3-127 (rate limit ICMPv6 errors except Packet Too Big) 2590 2591echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN 2592 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO 2593 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol. 2594 2595 Default: 0 2596 2597echo_ignore_multicast - BOOLEAN 2598 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO 2599 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol via multicast. 2600 2601 Default: 0 2602 2603echo_ignore_anycast - BOOLEAN 2604 If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO 2605 requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol destined to anycast address. 2606 2607 Default: 0 2608 2609xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER 2610 (Obsolete since linux-4.14) 2611 The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6 2612 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will 2613 refuse new allocations. 2614 2615 2616IPv6 Update by: 2617Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> 2618YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> 2619 2620 2621/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables: 2622================================= 2623 2624bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN 2625 - 1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain. 2626 - 0 : disable this. 2627 2628 Default: 1 2629 2630bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN 2631 - 1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains. 2632 - 0 : disable this. 2633 2634 Default: 1 2635 2636bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN 2637 - 1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains. 2638 - 0 : disable this. 2639 2640 Default: 1 2641 2642bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN 2643 - 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables. 2644 - 0 : disable this. 2645 2646 Default: 0 2647 2648bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN 2649 - 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables. 2650 - 0 : disable this. 2651 2652 Default: 0 2653 2654bridge-nf-pass-vlan-input-dev - BOOLEAN 2655 - 1: if bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged is enabled, try to find a vlan 2656 interface on the bridge and set the netfilter input device to the 2657 vlan. This allows use of e.g. "iptables -i br0.1" and makes the 2658 REDIRECT target work with vlan-on-top-of-bridge interfaces. When no 2659 matching vlan interface is found, or this switch is off, the input 2660 device is set to the bridge interface. 2661 2662 - 0: disable bridge netfilter vlan interface lookup. 2663 2664 Default: 0 2665 2666``proc/sys/net/sctp/*`` Variables: 2667================================== 2668 2669addip_enable - BOOLEAN 2670 Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration 2671 (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides 2672 the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP 2673 associations. 2674 2675 1: Enable extension. 2676 2677 0: Disable extension. 2678 2679 Default: 0 2680 2681pf_enable - INTEGER 2682 Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value 2683 of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of 2684 both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state. 2685 Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace 2686 application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of 2687 pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans 2688 or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is 2689 enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable 2690 and disable pf state. See: 2691 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for 2692 details. 2693 2694 1: Enable pf. 2695 2696 0: Disable pf. 2697 2698 Default: 1 2699 2700pf_expose - INTEGER 2701 Unset or enable/disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state 2702 exposure. Applications can control the exposure of the PF path state 2703 in the SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event and the SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO 2704 sockopt. When it's unset, no SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event with 2705 SCTP_ADDR_PF state will be sent and a SCTP_PF-state transport info 2706 can be got via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt; When it's enabled, 2707 a SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent for a transport becoming 2708 SCTP_PF state and a SCTP_PF-state transport info can be got via 2709 SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO sockopt; When it's diabled, no 2710 SCTP_PEER_ADDR_CHANGE event will be sent and it returns -EACCES when 2711 trying to get a SCTP_PF-state transport info via SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO 2712 sockopt. 2713 2714 0: Unset pf state exposure, Compatible with old applications. 2715 2716 1: Disable pf state exposure. 2717 2718 2: Enable pf state exposure. 2719 2720 Default: 0 2721 2722addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN 2723 Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of 2724 authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new 2725 addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts 2726 would not be able to hijack associations. However, older 2727 implementations may not have implemented this requirement while 2728 allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability, 2729 we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the 2730 authentication requirement. 2731 2732 == =============================================================== 2733 1 Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This 2734 should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability 2735 with older implementations. 2736 2737 0 Enforce the authentication requirement 2738 == =============================================================== 2739 2740 Default: 0 2741 2742auth_enable - BOOLEAN 2743 Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension 2744 provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is 2745 required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration 2746 (ADD-IP) extension. 2747 2748 - 1: Enable this extension. 2749 - 0: Disable this extension. 2750 2751 Default: 0 2752 2753prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN 2754 Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which 2755 is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected. 2756 2757 - 1: Enable extension 2758 - 0: Disable 2759 2760 Default: 1 2761 2762max_burst - INTEGER 2763 The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It 2764 controls how bursty the generated traffic can be. 2765 2766 Default: 4 2767 2768association_max_retrans - INTEGER 2769 Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can 2770 attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value 2771 is exceeded, the association is terminated. 2772 2773 Default: 10 2774 2775max_init_retransmits - INTEGER 2776 The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks 2777 that an association will attempt before declaring the destination 2778 unreachable and terminating. 2779 2780 Default: 8 2781 2782path_max_retrans - INTEGER 2783 The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given 2784 path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered 2785 unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the 2786 association is multihomed. 2787 2788 Default: 5 2789 2790pf_retrans - INTEGER 2791 The number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given path 2792 before traffic is redirected to an alternate transport (should one 2793 exist). Note this is distinct from path_max_retrans, as a path that 2794 passes the pf_retrans threshold can still be used. Its only 2795 deprioritized when a transmission path is selected by the stack. This 2796 setting is primarily used to enable fast failover mechanisms without 2797 having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See: 2798 http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt 2799 for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans 2800 disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can 2801 be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to 2802 disable pf state. 2803 2804 Default: 0 2805 2806ps_retrans - INTEGER 2807 Primary.Switchover.Max.Retrans (PSMR), it's a tunable parameter coming 2808 from section-5 "Primary Path Switchover" in rfc7829. The primary path 2809 will be changed to another active path when the path error counter on 2810 the old primary path exceeds PSMR, so that "the SCTP sender is allowed 2811 to continue data transmission on a new working path even when the old 2812 primary destination address becomes active again". Note this feature 2813 is disabled by initializing 'ps_retrans' per netns as 0xffff by default, 2814 and its value can't be less than 'pf_retrans' when changing by sysctl. 2815 2816 Default: 0xffff 2817 2818rto_initial - INTEGER 2819 The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used 2820 in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval 2821 for retransmissions. 2822 2823 Default: 3000 2824 2825rto_max - INTEGER 2826 The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This 2827 is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions. 2828 2829 Default: 60000 2830 2831rto_min - INTEGER 2832 The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This 2833 is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions. 2834 2835 Default: 1000 2836 2837hb_interval - INTEGER 2838 The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks 2839 are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of 2840 a given path between 2 associations. 2841 2842 Default: 30000 2843 2844sack_timeout - INTEGER 2845 The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait 2846 to send a SACK. 2847 2848 Default: 200 2849 2850valid_cookie_life - INTEGER 2851 The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie 2852 is used during association establishment. 2853 2854 Default: 60000 2855 2856cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN 2857 Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie 2858 that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association 2859 2860 - 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension. 2861 - 0: Disable 2862 2863 Default: 1 2864 2865cookie_hmac_alg - STRING 2866 Select the hmac algorithm used when generating the cookie value sent by 2867 a listening sctp socket to a connecting client in the INIT-ACK chunk. 2868 Valid values are: 2869 2870 * md5 2871 * sha1 2872 * none 2873 2874 Ability to assign md5 or sha1 as the selected alg is predicated on the 2875 configuration of those algorithms at build time (CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 and 2876 CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1). 2877 2878 Default: Dependent on configuration. MD5 if available, else SHA1 if 2879 available, else none. 2880 2881rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER 2882 Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to 2883 association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple 2884 associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is 2885 possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot 2886 of data may block other associations from delivering their data by 2887 consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this, 2888 the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space 2889 to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described 2890 blocking. 2891 2892 - 1: rcvbuf space is per association 2893 - 0: rcvbuf space is per socket 2894 2895 Default: 0 2896 2897sndbuf_policy - INTEGER 2898 Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space. 2899 2900 - 1: Send buffer is tracked per association 2901 - 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket. 2902 2903 Default: 0 2904 2905sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max 2906 Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets. 2907 2908 min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its 2909 memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds 2910 this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage. 2911 2912 pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem. 2913 2914 max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets. 2915 2916 Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory. 2917 2918sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max 2919 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are 2920 ignored. 2921 2922 min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by SCTP socket. 2923 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even 2924 under moderate memory pressure. 2925 2926 Default: 4K 2927 2928sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max 2929 Only the first value ("min") is used, "default" and "max" are 2930 ignored. 2931 2932 min: Minimum size of send buffer that can be used by SCTP sockets. 2933 It is guaranteed to each SCTP socket (but not association) even 2934 under moderate memory pressure. 2935 2936 Default: 4K 2937 2938addr_scope_policy - INTEGER 2939 Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00 2940 2941 - 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping 2942 - 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping 2943 - 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses 2944 - 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses 2945 2946 Default: 1 2947 2948udp_port - INTEGER 2949 The listening port for the local UDP tunneling sock. Normally it's 2950 using the IANA-assigned UDP port number 9899 (sctp-tunneling). 2951 2952 This UDP sock is used for processing the incoming UDP-encapsulated 2953 SCTP packets (from RFC6951), and shared by all applications in the 2954 same net namespace. This UDP sock will be closed when the value is 2955 set to 0. 2956 2957 The value will also be used to set the src port of the UDP header 2958 for the outgoing UDP-encapsulated SCTP packets. For the dest port, 2959 please refer to 'encap_port' below. 2960 2961 Default: 0 2962 2963encap_port - INTEGER 2964 The default remote UDP encapsulation port. 2965 2966 This value is used to set the dest port of the UDP header for the 2967 outgoing UDP-encapsulated SCTP packets by default. Users can also 2968 change the value for each sock/asoc/transport by using setsockopt. 2969 For further information, please refer to RFC6951. 2970 2971 Note that when connecting to a remote server, the client should set 2972 this to the port that the UDP tunneling sock on the peer server is 2973 listening to and the local UDP tunneling sock on the client also 2974 must be started. On the server, it would get the encap_port from 2975 the incoming packet's source port. 2976 2977 Default: 0 2978 2979plpmtud_probe_interval - INTEGER 2980 The time interval (in milliseconds) for the PLPMTUD probe timer, 2981 which is configured to expire after this period to receive an 2982 acknowledgment to a probe packet. This is also the time interval 2983 between the probes for the current pmtu when the probe search 2984 is done. 2985 2986 PLPMTUD will be disabled when 0 is set, and other values for it 2987 must be >= 5000. 2988 2989 Default: 0 2990 2991reconf_enable - BOOLEAN 2992 Enable or disable extension of Stream Reconfiguration functionality 2993 specified in RFC6525. This extension provides the ability to "reset" 2994 a stream, and it includes the Parameters of "Outgoing/Incoming SSN 2995 Reset", "SSN/TSN Reset" and "Add Outgoing/Incoming Streams". 2996 2997 - 1: Enable extension. 2998 - 0: Disable extension. 2999 3000 Default: 0 3001 3002intl_enable - BOOLEAN 3003 Enable or disable extension of User Message Interleaving functionality 3004 specified in RFC8260. This extension allows the interleaving of user 3005 messages sent on different streams. With this feature enabled, I-DATA 3006 chunk will replace DATA chunk to carry user messages if also supported 3007 by the peer. Note that to use this feature, one needs to set this option 3008 to 1 and also needs to set socket options SCTP_FRAGMENT_INTERLEAVE to 2 3009 and SCTP_INTERLEAVING_SUPPORTED to 1. 3010 3011 - 1: Enable extension. 3012 - 0: Disable extension. 3013 3014 Default: 0 3015 3016ecn_enable - BOOLEAN 3017 Control use of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) by SCTP. 3018 Like in TCP, ECN is used only when both ends of the SCTP connection 3019 indicate support for it. This feature is useful in avoiding losses 3020 due to congestion by allowing supporting routers to signal congestion 3021 before having to drop packets. 3022 3023 1: Enable ecn. 3024 0: Disable ecn. 3025 3026 Default: 1 3027 3028 3029``/proc/sys/net/core/*`` 3030======================== 3031 3032 Please see: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries. 3033 3034 3035``/proc/sys/net/unix/*`` 3036======================== 3037 3038max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER 3039 The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue 3040 3041 Default: 10 3042 3043