From: Milos Vyletel <milos.vyletel@gmail.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net, amwang@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Milos Vyletel <milos.vyletel@gmail.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>,
Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [patch net-next 4/5] Documentation: update ipv6 part of networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:19:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1402417153-2551-5-git-send-email-milos.vyletel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402417153-2551-1-git-send-email-milos.vyletel@gmail.com>
Documentation was updated with details how net.ipv6.conf.all settings are
used and how they affect current behaviour and interface-specific settings.
Signed-off-by: Milos Vyletel <milos.vyletel@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index ab42c95..f0406ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -1159,13 +1159,51 @@ ip6frag_secret_interval - INTEGER
Default: 600
conf/default/*:
- Change the interface-specific default settings.
+ Change the interface-specific default settings. These settings are
+ applied to all interfaces that have not been up and that did not have
+ this settings set previously. This is usually only during boot before
+ network is set up when sysctl settings are applied.
conf/all/*:
- Change all the interface-specific settings.
-
- [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?]
+ Change all the interface-specific settings. Different settings have
+ different effect. There are three different groups based on how they
+ treat conf/all vs interface-specific settings. These groups are
+
+ Both conf/all and interface must enable this feature (andconf)
+ - accept_ra_defrtr
+ - accept_ra_pinfo
+ - accept_ra_rtr_pref
+ - accept_redirects
+ - autoconf
+ - force_tllao
+ - mforward
+ - ndisc_notify
+ - suppress_frag_ndisc
+
+ Either conf/all or interface must enable this feature (orconf)
+ - disable_ipv6
+ - proxy_ndp
+
+ Maximum value of conf/all or interface will be used (maxconf)
+ - accept_dad
+ - accept_ra
+ - accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen
+ - accept_source_route
+ - dad_transmits
+ - hop_limit
+ - max_addresses
+ - max_desync_factor
+ - mtu
+ - optimistic_dad
+ - regen_max_retry
+ - router_probe_interval
+ - router_solicitation_delay
+ - router_solicitation_interval
+ - router_solicitations
+ - temp_prefered_lft
+ - temp_valid_lft
+ - use_tempaddr
conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN
Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.
@@ -1414,7 +1452,7 @@ force_mld_version - INTEGER
1 - Enforce to use MLD version 1
2 - Enforce to use MLD version 2
-suppress_frag_ndisc - INTEGER
+suppress_frag_ndisc - BOOLEAN
Control RFC 6980 (Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation
with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery) behavior:
1 - (default) discard fragmented neighbor discovery packets
--
1.9.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-10 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-10 16:19 [patch net-next 0/5] ipv6: change sysctl to behave more like in ipv4 Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 16:19 ` [patch net-next 1/5] ipv6: align sysctl table creation code with ipv4 Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 16:19 ` [patch net-next 2/5] ipv6: rename DEVCONF* to IPV6_DEVCONF* to align " Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 16:19 ` [patch net-next 3/5] ipv6: consider net.ipv6.conf.all sysctls when making decisions Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 17:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-06-10 17:49 ` Milos Vyletel
2014-06-11 22:32 ` David Miller
2014-06-12 15:07 ` Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 17:15 ` Florent Fourcot
2014-06-10 17:42 ` Milos Vyletel
2014-06-10 16:19 ` Milos Vyletel [this message]
2014-06-10 16:19 ` [patch net-next 5/5] ipv6: copy default config values to interfaces Milos Vyletel
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