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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt')
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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index ec5de02f543f..8be76235fe67 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -168,7 +168,16 @@ tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs. tcp_ecn - BOOLEAN - Enable Explicit Congestion Notification in TCP. + Enable Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in TCP. ECN is only + used when both ends of the TCP flow support it. It is useful to + avoid losses due to congestion (when the bottleneck router supports + ECN). + Possible values are: + 0 disable ECN + 1 ECN enabled + 2 Only server-side ECN enabled. If the other end does + not support ECN, behavior is like with ECN disabled. + Default: 2 tcp_fack - BOOLEAN Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission. @@ -1048,6 +1057,13 @@ disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN address. Default: FALSE (enable IPv6 operation) + When this value is changed from 1 to 0 (IPv6 is being enabled), + it will dynamically create a link-local address on the given + interface and start Duplicate Address Detection, if necessary. + + When this value is changed from 0 to 1 (IPv6 is being disabled), + it will dynamically delete all address on the given interface. + accept_dad - INTEGER Whether to accept DAD (Duplicate Address Detection). 0: Disable DAD @@ -1266,13 +1282,22 @@ sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max See tcp_wmem for a description. -UNDOCUMENTED: /proc/sys/net/core/* - dev_weight FIXME +dev_weight - INTEGER + The maximum number of packets that kernel can handle on a NAPI + interrupt, it's a Per-CPU variable. + + Default: 64 /proc/sys/net/unix/* - max_dgram_qlen FIXME +max_dgram_qlen - INTEGER + The maximum length of dgram socket receive queue + + Default: 10 + + +UNDOCUMENTED: /proc/sys/net/irda/* fast_poll_increase FIXME |