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Based on kernel version 2.6.34. Page generated on 2010-05-31 16:03 EST.

1	/proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables:
2	
3	ip_forward - BOOLEAN
4		0 - disabled (default)
5		not 0 - enabled
6	
7		Forward Packets between interfaces.
8	
9		This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
10		parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
11		for routers)
12	
13	ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
14		default 64
15	
16	ip_no_pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN
17		Disable Path MTU Discovery.
18		default FALSE
19	
20	min_pmtu - INTEGER
21		default 562 - minimum discovered Path MTU
22	
23	mtu_expires - INTEGER
24		Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.
25	
26	min_adv_mss - INTEGER
27		The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
28		never be lower than this setting.
29	
30	rt_cache_rebuild_count - INTEGER
31		The per net-namespace route cache emergency rebuild threshold.
32		Any net-namespace having its route cache rebuilt due to
33		a hash bucket chain being too long more than this many times
34		will have its route caching disabled
35	
36	IP Fragmentation:
37	
38	ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER
39		Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When
40		ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
41		the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh
42		is reached.
43	
44	ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER
45		See ipfrag_high_thresh
46	
47	ipfrag_time - INTEGER
48		Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.
49	
50	ipfrag_secret_interval - INTEGER
51		Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
52		for the hash secret) for IP fragments.
53		Default: 600
54	
55	ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER
56		ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the
57		maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a
58		common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is
59		not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source
60		IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it
61		probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue
62		have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check
63		is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if
64		ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP
65		address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source
66		address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are
67		lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one
68		started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check.
69	
70		Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can
71		result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal
72		reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application
73		performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the
74		likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate
75		from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption.
76		Default: 64
77	
78	INET peer storage:
79	
80	inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER
81		The approximate size of the storage.  Starting from this threshold
82		entries will be thrown aggressively.  This threshold also determines
83		entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
84		passes.  More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.
85	
86	inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
87		Minimum time-to-live of entries.  Should be enough to cover fragment
88		time-to-live on the reassembling side.  This minimum time-to-live  is
89		guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
90		Measured in seconds.
91	
92	inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
93		Maximum time-to-live of entries.  Unused entries will expire after
94		this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
95		when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
96		Measured in seconds.
97	
98	inet_peer_gc_mintime - INTEGER
99		Minimum interval between garbage collection passes.  This interval is
100		in effect under high memory pressure on the pool.
101		Measured in seconds.
102	
103	inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER
104		Minimum interval between garbage collection passes.  This interval is
105		in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool.
106		Measured in seconds.
107	
108	TCP variables:
109	
110	somaxconn - INTEGER
111		Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
112		Defaults to 128.  See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
113		for TCP sockets.
114	
115	tcp_abc - INTEGER
116		Controls Appropriate Byte Count (ABC) defined in RFC3465.
117		ABC is a way of increasing congestion window (cwnd) more slowly
118		in response to partial acknowledgments.
119		Possible values are:
120			0 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment (no ABC)
121			1 increase cwnd once per acknowledgment of full sized segment
122			2 allow increase cwnd by two if acknowledgment is
123			  of two segments to compensate for delayed acknowledgments.
124		Default: 0 (off)
125	
126	tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN
127		If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
128		reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
129		occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
130		option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
131		cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
132		option can harm clients of your server.
133	
134	tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER
135		Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
136		(if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
137		if it is <= 0.
138		Default: 2
139	
140	tcp_allowed_congestion_control - STRING
141		Show/set the congestion control choices available to non-privileged
142		processes. The list is a subset of those listed in
143		tcp_available_congestion_control.
144		Default is "reno" and the default setting (tcp_congestion_control).
145	
146	tcp_app_win - INTEGER
147		Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
148		buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
149		Default: 31
150	
151	tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING
152		Shows the available congestion control choices that are registered.
153		More congestion control algorithms may be available as modules,
154		but not loaded.
155	
156	tcp_base_mss - INTEGER
157		The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer
158		Path MTU discovery (MTU probing).  If MTU probing is enabled,
159		this is the initial MSS used by the connection.
160	
161	tcp_congestion_control - STRING
162		Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new
163		connections. The algorithm "reno" is always available, but
164		additional choices may be available based on kernel configuration.
165		Default is set as part of kernel configuration.
166	
167	tcp_cookie_size - INTEGER
168		Default size of TCP Cookie Transactions (TCPCT) option, that may be
169		overridden on a per socket basis by the TCPCT socket option.
170		Values greater than the maximum (16) are interpreted as the maximum.
171		Values greater than zero and less than the minimum (8) are interpreted
172		as the minimum.  Odd values are interpreted as the next even value.
173		Default: 0 (off).
174	
175	tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN
176		Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.
177	
178	tcp_ecn - BOOLEAN
179		Enable Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in TCP. ECN is only
180		used when both ends of the TCP flow support it. It is useful to
181		avoid losses due to congestion (when the bottleneck router supports
182		ECN).
183		Possible values are:
184			0 disable ECN
185			1 ECN enabled
186			2 Only server-side ECN enabled. If the other end does
187			  not support ECN, behavior is like with ECN disabled.
188		Default: 2
189	
190	tcp_fack - BOOLEAN
191		Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
192		The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.
193	
194	tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER
195		Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed
196		by our side. Peer can be broken and never close its side,
197		or even died unexpectedly. Default value is 60sec.
198		Usual value used in 2.2 was 180 seconds, you may restore
199		it, but remember that if your machine is even underloaded WEB server,
200		you risk to overflow memory with kilotons of dead sockets,
201		FIN-WAIT-2 sockets are less dangerous than FIN-WAIT-1,
202		because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend
203		to live longer.	Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
204	
205	tcp_frto - INTEGER
206		Enables Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO) defined in RFC4138.
207		F-RTO is an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
208		timeouts.  It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments
209		where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
210		rather than intermediate router congestion.  F-RTO is sender-side
211		only modification. Therefore it does not require any support from
212		the peer.
213	
214		If set to 1, basic version is enabled.  2 enables SACK enhanced
215		F-RTO if flow uses SACK.  The basic version can be used also when
216		SACK is in use though scenario(s) with it exists where F-RTO
217		interacts badly with the packet counting of the SACK enabled TCP
218		flow.
219	
220	tcp_frto_response - INTEGER
221		When F-RTO has detected that a TCP retransmission timeout was
222		spurious (i.e, the timeout would have been avoided had TCP set a
223		longer retransmission timeout), TCP has several options what to do
224		next. Possible values are:
225			0 Rate halving based; a smooth and conservative response,
226			  results in halved cwnd and ssthresh after one RTT
227			1 Very conservative response; not recommended because even
228			  though being valid, it interacts poorly with the rest of
229			  Linux TCP, halves cwnd and ssthresh immediately
230			2 Aggressive response; undoes congestion control measures
231			  that are now known to be unnecessary (ignoring the
232			  possibility of a lost retransmission that would require
233			  TCP to be more cautious), cwnd and ssthresh are restored
234			  to the values prior timeout
235		Default: 0 (rate halving based)
236	
237	tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER
238		How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
239		Default: 2hours.
240	
241	tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER
242		How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
243		connection is broken. Default value: 9.
244	
245	tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
246		How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
247		tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
248		after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
249		will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
250	
251	tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
252		If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower
253		latency as opposed to higher throughput.  By default, this
254		option is not set meaning that higher throughput is preferred.
255		An example of an application where this default should be
256		changed would be a Beowulf compute cluster.
257		Default: 0
258	
259	tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER
260		Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
261		held by system.	If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
262		reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
263		only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
264		or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
265		(probably, after increasing installed memory),
266		if network conditions require more than default value,
267		and tune network services to linger and kill such states
268		more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
269		up to ~64K of unswappable memory.
270	
271	tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER
272		Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are
273		still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client.
274		Default value is 1024 for systems with more than 128Mb of memory,
275		and 128 for low memory machines. If server suffers of overload,
276		try to increase this number.
277	
278	tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER
279		Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
280		If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
281		and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
282		simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
283		but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
284		if network conditions require more than default value.
285	
286	tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
287		min: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
288		memory appetite.
289	
290		pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
291		of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
292		pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
293		under "min".
294	
295		max: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
296	
297		Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
298		memory.
299	
300	tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN
301		If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to
302		automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to
303		match the size required by the path for full throughput.  Enabled by
304		default.
305	
306	tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
307		Controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery.  Takes three
308		values:
309		  0 - Disabled
310		  1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
311		  2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.
312	
313	tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
314		By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
315		when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
316		near future can use these to set initial conditions.  Usually, this
317		increases overall performance, but may sometimes cause performance
318		degradation.  If set, TCP will not cache metrics on closing
319		connections.
320	
321	tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
322		This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection,
323		when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
324		See tcp_retries2 for more details.
325	
326		The default value is 7.
327		If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
328		you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
329		may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
330	
331	tcp_reordering - INTEGER
332		Maximal reordering of packets in a TCP stream.
333		Default: 3
334	
335	tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN
336		Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
337		On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
338		certain TCP stacks.
339	
340	tcp_retries1 - INTEGER
341		This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that
342		something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions,
343		and reports this suspicion to the network layer.
344		See tcp_retries2 for more details.
345	
346		RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the
347		default.
348	
349	tcp_retries2 - INTEGER
350		This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection,
351		when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
352		Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following
353		exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would
354		retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO.
355	
356		The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6
357		seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout.
358		TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the
359		hypothetical timeout.
360	
361		RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout,
362		which corresponds to a value of at least 8.
363	
364	tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN
365		If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
366		we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
367		assassination.
368		Default: 0
369	
370	tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
371		min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
372		It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
373		pressure.
374		Default: 8K
375	
376		default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
377		This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
378		Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
379		default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
380		less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
381	
382		max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
383		selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
384		net.core.rmem_max.  Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables
385		automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which
386		case this value is ignored.
387		Default: between 87380B and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
388	
389	tcp_sack - BOOLEAN
390		Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).
391	
392	tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN
393		If set, provide RFC2861 behavior and time out the congestion
394		window after an idle period.  An idle period is defined at
395		the current RTO.  If unset, the congestion window will not
396		be timed out after an idle period.
397		Default: 1
398	
399	tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN
400		Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field.
401		Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
402		Linux might not communicate correctly with them.
403		Default: FALSE
404	
405	tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
406		Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
407		be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
408		is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
409	
410	tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
411		Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES
412		Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
413		overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'
414		Default: FALSE
415	
416		Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
417		It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
418		against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings
419		in your logs, but investigation	shows that they occur
420		because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
421		another parameters until this warning disappear.
422		See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
423	
424		syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
425		to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
426		of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
427		but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
428		SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
429		is seriously misconfigured.
430	
431	tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
432		Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
433		will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
434		is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.
435	
436	tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN
437		Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.
438	
439	tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER
440		This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
441		can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
442		The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
443		building larger TSO frames.
444		Default: 3
445	
446	tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN
447		Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0.
448		It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
449		experts.
450	
451	tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN
452		Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
453		safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
454		It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
455		experts.
456	
457	tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN
458		Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.
459	
460	tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
461		min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets.
462		Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
463		Default: 4K
464	
465		default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets.  This
466		value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols.
467		It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
468		Default: 16K
469	
470		max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned
471		send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override
472		net.core.wmem_max.  Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables
473		automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case
474		this value is ignored.
475		Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size.
476	
477	tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN
478		If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the
479		remote TCP is broken and treats the window as a signed quantity.
480		If unset, assume the remote TCP is not broken even if we do
481		not receive a window scaling option from them.
482		Default: 0
483	
484	tcp_dma_copybreak - INTEGER
485		Lower limit, in bytes, of the size of socket reads that will be
486		offloaded to a DMA copy engine, if one is present in the system
487		and CONFIG_NET_DMA is enabled.
488		Default: 4096
489	
490	tcp_thin_linear_timeouts - BOOLEAN
491		Enable dynamic triggering of linear timeouts for thin streams.
492		If set, a check is performed upon retransmission by timeout to
493		determine if the stream is thin (less than 4 packets in flight).
494		As long as the stream is found to be thin, up to 6 linear
495		timeouts may be performed before exponential backoff mode is
496		initiated. This improves retransmission latency for
497		non-aggressive thin streams, often found to be time-dependent.
498		For more information on thin streams, see
499		Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
500		Default: 0
501	
502	tcp_thin_dupack - BOOLEAN
503		Enable dynamic triggering of retransmissions after one dupACK
504		for thin streams. If set, a check is performed upon reception
505		of a dupACK to determine if the stream is thin (less than 4
506		packets in flight). As long as the stream is found to be thin,
507		data is retransmitted on the first received dupACK. This
508		improves retransmission latency for non-aggressive thin
509		streams, often found to be time-dependent.
510		For more information on thin streams, see
511		Documentation/networking/tcp-thin.txt
512		Default: 0
513	
514	UDP variables:
515	
516	udp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
517		Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
518	
519		min: Below this number of pages UDP is not bothered about its
520		memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by UDP exceeds
521		this number, UDP starts to moderate memory usage.
522	
523		pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
524	
525		max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all UDP sockets.
526	
527		Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
528	
529	udp_rmem_min - INTEGER
530		Minimal size of receive buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
531		Each UDP socket is able to use the size for receiving data, even if
532		total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
533		Default: 4096
534	
535	udp_wmem_min - INTEGER
536		Minimal size of send buffer used by UDP sockets in moderation.
537		Each UDP socket is able to use the size for sending data, even if
538		total pages of UDP sockets exceed udp_mem pressure. The unit is byte.
539		Default: 4096
540	
541	CIPSOv4 Variables:
542	
543	cipso_cache_enable - BOOLEAN
544		If set, enable additions to and lookups from the CIPSO label mapping
545		cache.  If unset, additions are ignored and lookups always result in a
546		miss.  However, regardless of the setting the cache is still
547		invalidated when required when means you can safely toggle this on and
548		off and the cache will always be "safe".
549		Default: 1
550	
551	cipso_cache_bucket_size - INTEGER
552		The CIPSO label cache consists of a fixed size hash table with each
553		hash bucket containing a number of cache entries.  This variable limits
554		the number of entries in each hash bucket; the larger the value the
555		more CIPSO label mappings that can be cached.  When the number of
556		entries in a given hash bucket reaches this limit adding new entries
557		causes the oldest entry in the bucket to be removed to make room.
558		Default: 10
559	
560	cipso_rbm_optfmt - BOOLEAN
561		Enable the "Optimized Tag 1 Format" as defined in section 3.4.2.6 of
562		the CIPSO draft specification (see Documentation/netlabel for details).
563		This means that when set the CIPSO tag will be padded with empty
564		categories in order to make the packet data 32-bit aligned.
565		Default: 0
566	
567	cipso_rbm_structvalid - BOOLEAN
568		If set, do a very strict check of the CIPSO option when
569		ip_options_compile() is called.  If unset, relax the checks done during
570		ip_options_compile().  Either way is "safe" as errors are caught else
571		where in the CIPSO processing code but setting this to 0 (False) should
572		result in less work (i.e. it should be faster) but could cause problems
573		with other implementations that require strict checking.
574		Default: 0
575	
576	IP Variables:
577	
578	ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS
579		Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
580		choose the local port. The first number is the first, the
581		second the last local port number. Default value depends on
582		amount of memory available on the system:
583		> 128Mb 32768-61000
584		< 128Mb 1024-4999 or even less.
585		This number defines number of active connections, which this
586		system can issue simultaneously to systems not supporting
587		TCP extensions (timestamps). With tcp_tw_recycle enabled
588		(i.e. by default) range 1024-4999 is enough to issue up to
589		2000 connections per second to systems supporting timestamps.
590	
591	ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
592		If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
593		which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
594		Default: 0
595	
596	ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN
597		If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
598		If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
599		message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
600		occurs.
601		Default: 0
602	
603	icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN
604		If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO
605		requests sent to it.
606		Default: 0
607	
608	icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN
609		If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO and
610		TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast.
611		Default: 1
612	
613	icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
614		Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
615		icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
616		0 to disable any limiting,
617		otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
618		Default: 1000
619	
620	icmp_ratemask - INTEGER
621		Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
622		Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
623		Default mask:     0000001100000011000 (6168)
624	
625		Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
626			0 Echo Reply
627			3 Destination Unreachable *
628			4 Source Quench *
629			5 Redirect
630			8 Echo Request
631			B Time Exceeded *
632			C Parameter Problem *
633			D Timestamp Request
634			E Timestamp Reply
635			F Info Request
636			G Info Reply
637			H Address Mask Request
638			I Address Mask Reply
639	
640		* These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)
641	
642	icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN
643		Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
644		frames.  Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
645		If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
646		will avoid log file clutter.
647		Default: FALSE
648	
649	icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN
650	
651		If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of
652		the exiting interface.
653	
654		If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of
655		the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error.
656		This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from
657		a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts
658		much easier.
659	
660		Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected,
661		then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that
662		has one will be used regardless of this setting.
663	
664		Default: 0
665	
666	igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER
667		Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
668		Default: 20
669	
670	conf/interface/*  changes special settings per interface (where "interface" is
671			  the name of your network interface)
672	conf/all/*	  is special, changes the settings for all interfaces
673	
674	
675	log_martians - BOOLEAN
676		Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
677		log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
678		conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
679		it will be disabled otherwise
680	
681	accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
682		Accept ICMP redirect messages.
683		accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
684		- both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case
685		  forwarding for the interface is enabled
686		or
687		- at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the
688		  case forwarding for the interface is disabled
689		accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
690		default TRUE (host)
691			FALSE (router)
692	
693	forwarding - BOOLEAN
694		Enable IP forwarding on this interface.
695	
696	mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN
697		Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
698		and a multicast routing daemon is required.
699		conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast
700		routing	for the interface
701	
702	medium_id - INTEGER
703		Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
704		are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
705		the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
706		The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
707		to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.
708	
709		Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
710		the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
711		two devices attached to different media.
712	
713	proxy_arp - BOOLEAN
714		Do proxy arp.
715		proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
716		conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
717		it will be disabled otherwise
718	
719	proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN
720		Private VLAN proxy arp.
721		Basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same interface
722		(from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
723	
724		This is done to support (ethernet) switch features, like RFC
725		3069, where the individual ports are NOT allowed to
726		communicate with each other, but they are allowed to talk to
727		the upstream router.  As described in RFC 3069, it is possible
728		to allow these hosts to communicate through the upstream
729		router by proxy_arp'ing. Don't need to be used together with
730		proxy_arp.
731	
732		This technology is known by different names:
733		  In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
734		  Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
735		  Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
736		  Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
737	
738	shared_media - BOOLEAN
739		Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
740		Overrides ip_secure_redirects.
741		shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
742		conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
743		it will be disabled otherwise
744		default TRUE
745	
746	secure_redirects - BOOLEAN
747		Accept ICMP redirect messages only for gateways,
748		listed in default gateway list.
749		secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
750		conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
751		it will be disabled otherwise
752		default TRUE
753	
754	send_redirects - BOOLEAN
755		Send redirects, if router.
756		send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
757		conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
758		it will be disabled otherwise
759		Default: TRUE
760	
761	bootp_relay - BOOLEAN
762		Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
763		not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
764		BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
765		conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
766		for the interface
767		default FALSE
768		Not Implemented Yet.
769	
770	accept_source_route - BOOLEAN
771		Accept packets with SRR option.
772		conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
773		with SRR option on the interface
774		default TRUE (router)
775			FALSE (host)
776	
777	accept_local - BOOLEAN
778		Accept packets with local source addresses. In combination with
779		suitable routing, this can be used to direct packets between two
780		local interfaces over the wire and have them accepted properly.
781		default FALSE
782	
783	rp_filter - INTEGER
784		0 - No source validation.
785		1 - Strict mode as defined in RFC3704 Strict Reverse Path
786		    Each incoming packet is tested against the FIB and if the interface
787		    is not the best reverse path the packet check will fail.
788		    By default failed packets are discarded.
789		2 - Loose mode as defined in RFC3704 Loose Reverse Path
790		    Each incoming packet's source address is also tested against the FIB
791		    and if the source address is not reachable via any interface
792		    the packet check will fail.
793	
794		Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode
795		to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing
796		or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended.
797	
798		The max value from conf/{all,interface}/rp_filter is used
799		when doing source validation on the {interface}.
800	
801		Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
802		in startup scripts.
803	
804	arp_filter - BOOLEAN
805		1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
806		subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
807		based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
808		the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
809		based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
810		of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
811	
812		0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
813		from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
814		sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
815		IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
816		particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
817		balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
818	
819		arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
820		conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
821		it will be disabled otherwise
822	
823	arp_announce - INTEGER
824		Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
825		source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
826		interface:
827		0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
828		1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
829		subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
830		hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
831		address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
832		configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
833		request we will check all our subnets that include the
834		target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
835		such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
836		address according to the rules for level 2.
837		2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
838		In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
839		and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
840		the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
841		for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
842		interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
843		local address is found we select the first local address
844		we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
845		with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
846		even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
847	
848		The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
849	
850		Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
851		receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
852		the level announces more valid sender's information.
853	
854	arp_ignore - INTEGER
855		Define different modes for sending replies in response to
856		received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
857		0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
858		on any interface
859		1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
860		configured on the incoming interface
861		2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
862		configured on the incoming interface and both with the
863		sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
864		3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
865		only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
866		4-7 - reserved
867		8 - do not reply for all local addresses
868	
869		The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
870		when ARP request is received on the {interface}
871	
872	arp_notify - BOOLEAN
873		Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
874		0 - (default): do nothing
875		1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up
876		    or hardware address changes.
877	
878	arp_accept - BOOLEAN
879		Define behavior for gratuitous ARP frames who's IP is not
880		already present in the ARP table:
881		0 - don't create new entries in the ARP table
882		1 - create new entries in the ARP table
883	
884		Both replies and requests type gratuitous arp will trigger the
885		ARP table to be updated, if this setting is on.
886	
887		If the ARP table already contains the IP address of the
888		gratuitous arp frame, the arp table will be updated regardless
889		if this setting is on or off.
890	
891	
892	app_solicit - INTEGER
893		The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
894		via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
895		mcast_solicit).  Defaults to 0.
896	
897	disable_policy - BOOLEAN
898		Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface
899	
900	disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
901		Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
902	
903	
904	
905	tag - INTEGER
906		Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
907		Default value is 0.
908	
909	Alexey Kuznetsov.
910	kuznet[AT]ms2.inr.ac[DOT]ru
911	
912	Updated by:
913	Andi Kleen
914	ak[AT]muc[DOT]de
915	Nicolas Delon
916	delon.nicolas[AT]wanadoo[DOT]fr
917	
918	
919	
920	
921	/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:
922	
923	IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*.  tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also
924	apply to IPv6 [XXX?].
925	
926	bindv6only - BOOLEAN
927		Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
928		which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication
929		only.
930			TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
931			FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
932	
933		Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC2553bis)
934	
935	IPv6 Fragmentation:
936	
937	ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER
938		Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When
939		ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
940		the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
941		is reached.
942	
943	ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER
944		See ip6frag_high_thresh
945	
946	ip6frag_time - INTEGER
947		Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
948	
949	ip6frag_secret_interval - INTEGER
950		Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
951		for the hash secret) for IPv6 fragments.
952		Default: 600
953	
954	conf/default/*:
955		Change the interface-specific default settings.
956	
957	
958	conf/all/*:
959		Change all the interface-specific settings.
960	
961		[XXX:  Other special features than forwarding?]
962	
963	conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
964		Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
965	
966		IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used
967		to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
968	
969		This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting
970		'forwarding' to the specified value.  See below for details.
971	
972		This referred to as global forwarding.
973	
974	proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN
975		Do proxy ndp.
976	
977	conf/interface/*:
978		Change special settings per interface.
979	
980		The functional behaviour for certain settings is different
981		depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.
982	
983	accept_ra - BOOLEAN
984		Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.
985	
986		Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
987				    disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
988	
989	accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN
990		Learn default router in Router Advertisement.
991	
992		Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
993				    disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
994	
995	accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN
996		Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement.
997	
998		Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
999				    disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1000	
1001	accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen - INTEGER
1002		Maximum prefix length of Route Information in RA.
1003	
1004		Route Information w/ prefix larger than or equal to this
1005		variable shall be ignored.
1006	
1007		Functional default: 0 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is enabled.
1008				    -1 if accept_ra_rtr_pref is disabled.
1009	
1010	accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
1011		Accept Router Preference in RA.
1012	
1013		Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
1014				    disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
1015	
1016	accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
1017		Accept Redirects.
1018	
1019		Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
1020				    disabled if local forwarding is enabled.
1021	
1022	accept_source_route - INTEGER
1023		Accept source routing (routing extension header).
1024	
1025		>= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
1026		< 0: Do not accept routing header.
1027	
1028		Default: 0
1029	
1030	autoconf - BOOLEAN
1031		Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router
1032		Advertisements.
1033	
1034		Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled.
1035				    disabled if accept_ra_pinfo is disabled.
1036	
1037	dad_transmits - INTEGER
1038		The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
1039		Default: 1
1040	
1041	forwarding - BOOLEAN
1042		Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.
1043	
1044		Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all
1045		interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
1046	
1047		FALSE:
1048	
1049		By default, Host behaviour is assumed.  This means:
1050	
1051		1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1052		2. Router Solicitations are being sent when necessary.
1053		3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router
1054		   Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
1055		4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
1056	
1057		TRUE:
1058	
1059		If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed.
1060		This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1061	
1062		1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
1063		2. Router Solicitations are not sent.
1064		3. Router Advertisements are ignored.
1065		4. Redirects are ignored.
1066	
1067		Default: FALSE if global forwarding is disabled (default),
1068			 otherwise TRUE.
1069	
1070	hop_limit - INTEGER
1071		Default Hop Limit to set.
1072		Default: 64
1073	
1074	mtu - INTEGER
1075		Default Maximum Transfer Unit
1076		Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)
1077	
1078	router_probe_interval - INTEGER
1079		Minimum interval (in seconds) between Router Probing described
1080		in RFC4191.
1081	
1082		Default: 60
1083	
1084	router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER
1085		Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
1086		before sending Router Solicitations.
1087		Default: 1
1088	
1089	router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER
1090		Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
1091		Default: 4
1092	
1093	router_solicitations - INTEGER
1094		Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no
1095		routers are present.
1096		Default: 3
1097	
1098	use_tempaddr - INTEGER
1099		Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
1100		  <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
1101		  == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
1102		         addresses over temporary addresses.
1103		  >  1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
1104		         addresses over public addresses.
1105		Default:  0 (for most devices)
1106			 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)
1107	
1108	temp_valid_lft - INTEGER
1109		valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1110		Default: 604800 (7 days)
1111	
1112	temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER
1113		Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
1114		Default: 86400 (1 day)
1115	
1116	max_desync_factor - INTEGER
1117		Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
1118		that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each
1119		other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
1120		value is in seconds.
1121		Default: 600
1122	
1123	regen_max_retry - INTEGER
1124		Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
1125		valid temporary addresses.
1126		Default: 5
1127	
1128	max_addresses - INTEGER
1129		Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface.  Setting
1130		to zero disables the limitation.  It is not recommended to set this
1131		value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
1132		crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
1133		Default: 16
1134	
1135	disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN
1136		Disable IPv6 operation.  If accept_dad is set to 2, this value
1137		will be dynamically set to TRUE if DAD fails for the link-local
1138		address.
1139		Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation)
1140	
1141		When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled),
1142		it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given
1143		interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary.
1144	
1145		When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled),
1146		it will dynamically delete all address on the given interface.
1147	
1148	accept_dad - INTEGER
1149		Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection).
1150		0: Disable DAD
1151		1: Enable DAD (default)
1152		2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate
1153		   link-local address has been found.
1154	
1155	force_tllao - BOOLEAN
1156		Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when
1157		responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation.
1158		Default: FALSE
1159	
1160		Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address:
1161	
1162		"The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to
1163		avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node
1164		does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements
1165		message.  When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be
1166		omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link-
1167		layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast
1168		solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer
1169		address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential
1170		race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address
1171		prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation."
1172	
1173	icmp/*:
1174	ratelimit - INTEGER
1175		Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
1176		0 to disable any limiting,
1177		otherwise the minimal space between responses in milliseconds.
1178		Default: 1000
1179	
1180	
1181	IPv6 Update by:
1182	Pekka Savola <pekkas[AT]netcore[DOT]fi>
1183	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project <yoshfuji[AT]linux-ipv6[DOT]org>
1184	
1185	
1186	/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:
1187	
1188	bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN
1189		1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
1190		0 : disable this.
1191		Default: 1
1192	
1193	bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN
1194		1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
1195		0 : disable this.
1196		Default: 1
1197	
1198	bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN
1199		1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
1200		0 : disable this.
1201		Default: 1
1202	
1203	bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN
1204		1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables.
1205		0 : disable this.
1206		Default: 1
1207	
1208	bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN
1209		1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables.
1210		0 : disable this.
1211		Default: 1
1212	
1213	
1214	proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables:
1215	
1216	addip_enable - BOOLEAN
1217		Enable or disable extension of  Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1218		(ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061.  This extension provides
1219		the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP
1220		associations.
1221	
1222		1: Enable extension.
1223	
1224		0: Disable extension.
1225	
1226		Default: 0
1227	
1228	addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN
1229		Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of
1230		authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new
1231		addresses.  This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts
1232		would not be able to hijack associations.  However, older
1233		implementations may not have implemented this requirement while
1234		allowing the ADD-IP extension.  For reasons of interoperability,
1235		we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the
1236		authentication requirement.
1237	
1238		1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication.  This
1239		   should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability
1240		   with older implementations.
1241	
1242		0: Enforce the authentication requirement
1243	
1244		Default: 0
1245	
1246	auth_enable - BOOLEAN
1247		Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension.  This extension
1248		provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is
1249		required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
1250		(ADD-IP) extension.
1251	
1252		1: Enable this extension.
1253		0: Disable this extension.
1254	
1255		Default: 0
1256	
1257	prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN
1258		Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which
1259		is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected.
1260	
1261		1: Enable extension
1262		0: Disable
1263	
1264		Default: 1
1265	
1266	max_burst - INTEGER
1267		The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent.  It
1268		controls how bursty the generated traffic can be.
1269	
1270		Default: 4
1271	
1272	association_max_retrans - INTEGER
1273		Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can
1274		attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable.  If this value
1275		is exceeded, the association is terminated.
1276	
1277		Default: 10
1278	
1279	max_init_retransmits - INTEGER
1280		The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks
1281		that an association will attempt before declaring the destination
1282		unreachable and terminating.
1283	
1284		Default: 8
1285	
1286	path_max_retrans - INTEGER
1287		The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given
1288		path.  Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered
1289		unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the
1290		association is multihomed.
1291	
1292		Default: 5
1293	
1294	rto_initial - INTEGER
1295		The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used
1296		in calculating round trip times.  This is the initial time interval
1297		for retransmissions.
1298	
1299		Default: 3000
1300	
1301	rto_max - INTEGER
1302		The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout.  This
1303		is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions.
1304	
1305		Default: 60000
1306	
1307	rto_min - INTEGER
1308		The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout.  This
1309		is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions.
1310	
1311		Default: 1000
1312	
1313	hb_interval - INTEGER
1314		The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks.  These chunks
1315		are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of
1316		a given path between 2 associations.
1317	
1318		Default: 30000
1319	
1320	sack_timeout - INTEGER
1321		The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait
1322		to send a SACK.
1323	
1324		Default: 200
1325	
1326	valid_cookie_life - INTEGER
1327		The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds).  The cookie
1328		is used during association establishment.
1329	
1330		Default: 60000
1331	
1332	cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN
1333		Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie
1334		that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association
1335	
1336		1: Enable cookie lifetime extension.
1337		0: Disable
1338	
1339		Default: 1
1340	
1341	rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER
1342		Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to
1343		association.   SCTP supports the capability to create multiple
1344		associations on a single socket.  When using this capability, it is
1345		possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot
1346		of data may block other associations from delivering their data by
1347		consuming all of the receive buffer space.  To work around this,
1348		the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space
1349		to each association instead of the socket.  This prevents the described
1350		blocking.
1351	
1352		1: rcvbuf space is per association
1353		0: recbuf space is per socket
1354	
1355		Default: 0
1356	
1357	sndbuf_policy - INTEGER
1358		Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space.
1359	
1360		1: Send buffer is tracked per association
1361		0: Send buffer is tracked per socket.
1362	
1363		Default: 0
1364	
1365	sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max
1366		Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
1367	
1368		min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its
1369		memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds
1370		this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage.
1371	
1372		pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem.
1373	
1374		max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets.
1375	
1376		Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory.
1377	
1378	sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
1379		See tcp_rmem for a description.
1380	
1381	sctp_wmem  - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max
1382		See tcp_wmem for a description.
1383	
1384	addr_scope_policy - INTEGER
1385		Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00
1386	
1387		0   - Disable IPv4 address scoping
1388		1   - Enable IPv4 address scoping
1389		2   - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses
1390		3   - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses
1391	
1392		Default: 1
1393	
1394	
1395	/proc/sys/net/core/*
1396	dev_weight - INTEGER
1397		The maximum number of packets that kernel can handle on a NAPI
1398		interrupt, it's a Per-CPU variable.
1399	
1400		Default: 64
1401	
1402	/proc/sys/net/unix/*
1403	max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER
1404		The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue
1405	
1406		Default: 10
1407	
1408	
1409	UNDOCUMENTED:
1410	
1411	/proc/sys/net/irda/*
1412		fast_poll_increase FIXME
1413		warn_noreply_time FIXME
1414		discovery_slots FIXME
1415		slot_timeout FIXME
1416		max_baud_rate FIXME
1417		discovery_timeout FIXME
1418		lap_keepalive_time FIXME
1419		max_noreply_time FIXME
1420		max_tx_data_size FIXME
1421		max_tx_window FIXME
1422		min_tx_turn_time FIXME
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