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[linux-2.6.git] / Documentation / networking / ip-sysctl.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -101,53 +101,67 @@ inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER
 
 TCP variables: 
 
 
 TCP variables: 
 

+somaxconn - INTEGER
+       Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
+       Defaults to 128.  See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
+       for TCP sockets.
+

 tcp_abc - INTEGER
 tcp_abc - INTEGER

-       Controls Appropriate Byte Count defined in RFC3465. If set to
-       0 then does congestion avoid once per ack. 1 is conservative
-       value, and 2 is more agressive.
+       Controls Appropriate Byte Count (ABC) defined in RFC3465.
+       ABC is a way of increasing congestion window (cwnd) more slowly
+       in response to partial acknowledgments.
+       Possible values are:
+               0 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment (no ABC)
+               1 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment of full sized segment
+               2 allow increase cwnd by two if acknowledgment is
+                 of two segments to compensate for delayed acknowledgments.
+       Default: 0 (off)

 
 

-tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
-       Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
-       will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
-       is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
+tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
+       If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
+       reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
+       occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
+       option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
+       cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
+       option can harm clients of your server.

 
 

-tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
-       Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
-       be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
-       is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
+tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
+       Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
+       (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
+       if it is <= 0.
+       Default: 2

 
 

-tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
-       How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
-       Default: 2hours.
+tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
+       Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
+       processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
+       tcp_available_congestion_control.
+       Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).

 
 

-tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
-       How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
-       connection is broken. Default value: 9.
+tcp_app_win - INTEGER
+       Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
+       buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
+       Default: 31

 
 

-tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
-       How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
-       tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
-       after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
-       will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
+tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
+       Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
+       More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
+       but not loaded.

 
 

-tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
-       How many times to retry before deciding that something is wrong
-       and it is necessary to report this suspicion to network layer.
-       Minimal RFC value is 3, it is default, which corresponds
-       to ~3sec-8min depending on RTO.
+tcp_congestion_control - STRING
+       Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
+       connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
+       additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
+       Default is set as part of kernel configuration.

 
 

-tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
-       How may times to retry before killing alive TCP connection.
-       RFC1122 says that the limit should be longer than 100 sec.
-       It is too small number. Default value 15 corresponds to ~13-30min
-       depending on RTO.
+tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
+       Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.

 
 

-tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
-       How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed
-       by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to ~50sec-16min
-       depending on RTO. If you machine is loaded WEB server,
-       you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
-       may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
+tcp_ecn - BOOLEAN
+       Enable Explicit Congestion Notification in TCP.
+
+tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
+       Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
+       The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.

 
 tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
        Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed
 
 tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
        Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed


@@ -160,24 +174,33 @@ tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
        because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend
        to live longer. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
 
        because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend
        to live longer. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
 

-tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
-       Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
-       If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
-       and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
-       simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
-       but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
-       if network conditions require more than default value.
+tcp_frto - BOOLEAN
+       Enables F-RTO, an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
+       timeouts.  It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments
+       where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
+       rather than intermediate router congestion.

 
 

-tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN
-       Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0.
-       It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
-       experts.
+tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
+       How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
+       Default: 2hours.

 
 

-tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
-       Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
-       safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
-       It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
-       experts.
+tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
+       How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
+       connection is broken. Default value: 9.
+
+tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
+       How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
+       tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
+       after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
+       will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
+
+tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
+       If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower
+       latency as opposed to higher throughput.  By default, this
+       option is not set meaning that higher throughput is preferred.
+       An example of an application where this default should be
+       changed would be a Beowulf compute cluster.
+       Default: 0

 
 tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
        Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
 
 tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
        Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,


@@ -191,41 +214,6 @@ tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
        more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
        up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
 
        more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
        up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
 

-tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
-       If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
-       reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
-       occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
-       option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
-       cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
-       option can harm clients of your server.
-
-tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
-       Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES
-       Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket 
-       overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'syn flood attack'
-       Default: FALSE
-
-       Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
-       It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
-       against legal connection rate. If you see synflood warnings
-       in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
-       because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
-       another parameters until this warning disappear.
-       See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
-
-       syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
-       to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
-       of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
-       but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
-       synflood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
-       is seriously misconfigured.
-
-tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
-       Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urg pointer field.
-       Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
-       Linux might not communicate correctly with them.        
-       Default: FALSE 
-       

 tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
        Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are
        still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client.
 tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
        Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are
        still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client.


@@ -233,24 +221,34 @@ tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
        and 128 for low memory machines. If server suffers of overload,
        try to increase this number.
 
        and 128 for low memory machines. If server suffers of overload,
        try to increase this number.
 

-tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
-       Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
+tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
+       Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
+       If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
+       and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
+       simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
+       but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
+       if network conditions require more than default value.

 
 

-tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN
-       Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
+tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
+       min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
+       memory appetite.

 
 

-tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
-       Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
+       pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
+       of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
+       pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
+       under "min".

 
 

-tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
-       Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
-       The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
+       max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.

 
 

-tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
-       Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
+       Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
+       memory.

 
 

-tcp_ecn - BOOLEAN
-       Enable Explicit Congestion Notification in TCP.
+tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
+       How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed
+       by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to ~50sec-16min
+       depending on RTO. If you machine is loaded WEB server,
+       you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
+       may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.

 
 tcp_reordering - INTEGER
        Maximal reordering of packets in a TCP stream.
 
 tcp_reordering - INTEGER
        Maximal reordering of packets in a TCP stream.


@@ -261,20 +259,23 @@ tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
        On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
        certain TCP stacks.
 
        On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
        certain TCP stacks.
 

-tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
-       min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP socket.
-       Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
-       Default: 4K
+tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
+       How many times to retry before deciding that something is wrong
+       and it is necessary to report this suspicion to network layer.
+       Minimal RFC value is 3, it is default, which corresponds
+       to ~3sec-8min depending on RTO.

 
 

-       default: Amount of memory allowed for send buffers for TCP socket
-       by default. This value overrides net.core.wmem_default used
-       by other protocols, it is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
-       Default: 16K
+tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
+       How may times to retry before killing alive TCP connection.
+       RFC1122 says that the limit should be longer than 100 sec.
+       It is too small number. Default value 15 corresponds to ~13-30min
+       depending on RTO.

 
 

-       max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically selected
-       send buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
-       net.core.wmem_max, "static" selection via SO_SNDBUF does not use this.
-       Default: 128K
+tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
+       If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
+       we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
+       assassination.
+       Default: 0

 
 tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
        min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
 
 tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
        min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.


@@ -293,67 +294,133 @@ tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
        net.core.rmem_max, "static" selection via SO_RCVBUF does not use this.
        Default: 87380*2 bytes.
 
        net.core.rmem_max, "static" selection via SO_RCVBUF does not use this.
        Default: 87380*2 bytes.
 

-tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
-       low: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
-       memory appetite.
+tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
+       Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).

 
 

-       pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
-       of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
-       pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
-       under "low".
+tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
+       If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
+       window after an idle period.  An idle period is defined at
+       the current RTO.  If unset, the congestion window will not
+       be timed out after an idle period.
+       Default: 1

 
 

-       high: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
+tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
+       Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urg pointer field.
+       Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
+       Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
+       Default: FALSE

 
 

-       Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
-       memory.
+tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
+       Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
+       be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
+       is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.

 
 

-tcp_app_win - INTEGER
-       Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
-       buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
-       Default: 31
+tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
+       Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES
+       Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
+       overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'syn flood attack'
+       Default: FALSE

 
 

-tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
-       Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
-       (if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
-       if it is <= 0.
-       Default: 2
+       Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
+       It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
+       against legal connection rate. If you see synflood warnings
+       in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur
+       because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
+       another parameters until this warning disappear.
+       See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.

 
 

-tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
-       If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
-       we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
-       assassination.   
-       Default: 0
+       syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
+       to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
+       of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
+       but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
+       synflood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
+       is seriously misconfigured.

 
 

-tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
-       If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower
-       latency as opposed to higher throughput.  By default, this
-       option is not set meaning that higher throughput is preferred.
-       An example of an application where this default should be
-       changed would be a Beowulf compute cluster.
-       Default: 0
+tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
+       Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
+       will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
+       is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
+
+tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN
+       Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.

 
 tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
 
 tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER

-       This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
-       can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
-       The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
-       building larger TSO frames.
-       Default: 3
+       This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
+       can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
+       The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
+       building larger TSO frames.
+       Default: 3

 
 

-tcp_frto - BOOLEAN
-       Enables F-RTO, an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
-       timeouts.  It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments
-       where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
-       rather than intermediate router congestion.
+tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN
+       Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0.
+       It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
+       experts.

 
 

-tcp_congestion_control - STRING
-       Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
-       connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
-       additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
+tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
+       Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
+       safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
+       It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
+       experts.

 
 

-somaxconn - INTEGER
-       Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
-       Defaults to 128.  See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
-       for TCP sockets.
+tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
+       Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
+
+tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
+       min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP socket.
+       Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
+       Default: 4K
+
+       default: Amount of memory allowed for send buffers for TCP socket
+       by default. This value overrides net.core.wmem_default used
+       by other protocols, it is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
+       Default: 16K
+
+       max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically selected
+       send buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
+       net.core.wmem_max, "static" selection via SO_SNDBUF does not use this.
+       Default: 128K
+
+tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
+       If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
+       remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
+       If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
+       not receive a window scaling option from them.
+       Default: 0
+
+CIPSOv4 Variables:
+
+cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
+       If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
+       cache.  If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
+       miss.  However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
+       invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
+       off and the cache will always be "safe".
+       Default: 1
+
+cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
+       The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
+       hash bucket containing a number of cache entries.  This variable limits
+       the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
+       more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached.  When the number of
+       entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
+       causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
+       Default: 10
+
+cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
+       Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
+       the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
+       This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
+       categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
+       Default: 0
+
+cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
+       If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
+       ip_options_compile() is called.  If unset, relax the checks done during
+       ip_options_compile().  Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
+       where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
+       result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
+       with other implementations that require strict checking.
+       Default: 0

 
 IP Variables:
 
 
 IP Variables:
 


@@ -440,7 +507,7 @@ icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
 
        Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
        then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
 
        Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
        then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that

-       has one will be used regarldess of this setting.
+       has one will be used regardless of this setting.

 
        Default: 0
 
 
        Default: 0
 


@@ -619,6 +686,11 @@ arp_ignore - INTEGER
        The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
        when ARP request is received on the {interface}
 
        The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
        when ARP request is received on the {interface}
 

+arp_accept - BOOLEAN
+       Define behavior when gratuitous arp replies are received:
+       0 - drop gratuitous arp frames
+       1 - accept gratuitous arp frames
+

 app_solicit - INTEGER
        The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
        via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
 app_solicit - INTEGER
        The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
        via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see


@@ -705,6 +777,9 @@ conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
 
        This referred to as global forwarding.
 
 
        This referred to as global forwarding.
 

+proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
+       Do proxy ndp.
+

 conf/interface/*:
        Change special settings per interface.
 
 conf/interface/*:
        Change special settings per interface.
 


@@ -717,18 +792,54 @@ accept_ra - BOOLEAN
        Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
                            disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
 
        Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
                            disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
 

+accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
+       Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
+
+       Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
+                           disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
+
+accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
+       Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
+
+       Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
+                           disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
+
+accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
+       Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
+
+       Route Information w/ prefix larger than or equal to this
+       variable shall be ignored.
+
+       Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
+                           -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
+
+accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
+       Accept Router Preference in RA.
+
+       Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
+                           disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
+

 accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
        Accept Redirects.
 
        Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
                            disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
 
 accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
        Accept Redirects.
 
        Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
                            disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
 

+accept_source_route - INTEGER
+       Accept source routing (routing extension header).
+
+       > 0: Accept routing header.
+       = 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
+       < 0: Do not accept routing header.
+
+       Default: 0
+

 autoconf - BOOLEAN
        Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router 
        Advertisements.
 
 autoconf - BOOLEAN
        Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router 
        Advertisements.
 

-       Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
-                           disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
+       Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
+                           disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.

 
 dad_transmits - INTEGER
        The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
 
 dad_transmits - INTEGER
        The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.


@@ -771,6 +882,12 @@ mtu - INTEGER
        Default Maximum Transfer Unit
        Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
 
        Default Maximum Transfer Unit
        Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
 

+router_probe_interval - INTEGER
+       Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
+       in RFC4191.
+
+       Default: 60
+

 router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
        Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
        before sending Router Solicitations.
 router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
        Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
        before sending Router Solicitations.


@@ -878,4 +995,3 @@ no_cong_thresh FIXME
 slot_timeout FIXME
 warn_noreply_time FIXME
 
 slot_timeout FIXME
 warn_noreply_time FIXME
 

-$Id: ip-sysctl.txt,v 1.20 2001/12/13 09:00:18 davem Exp $