Re: net sysctls questions

[Padraig Brady <padraig@antefacto.com>]

David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Padraig Brady <padraig@antefacto.com>
>    Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:11:40 +0100
> 
>    /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/../{arp_filter,tag}
>    are not documented.
>    
> Nobody had time to document them, that is all.
> 
>    /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_rate_limit is jiffies.
>    Shouldn't this be HZ, i.e. jiffies shouldn't
>    be exported to userspace as it's non portable?
> 
> What if you want to specify value smaller than HZ?
> That is the most typical for this setting.

Current default is 100 (allow 1 ICMP packet/s on Intel
or 10/s on alpha). I suppose milliseconds is the most
sensible unit to use?

Padraig.