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From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Philip Rowlands <linux-kernel@dimebar.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing value for tcp_syncookies sysctl
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 17:34:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d02554ae-4cb7-dce8-deac-e68e4bd0ea67@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2eacb90-222f-455f-97e2-8784360d7f5f@www.fastmail.com>

Hi Philip,

On 12/7/20 5:10 PM, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> Under man7/tcp.7 please mention the "2" value for tcp_syncookies, which is no longer a boolean, default "1".
> 
> First mentioned in kernel 3.12
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v3.12/source/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt#L443
> 
> The kernel documentation is rather ungrammatical, so suggest instead:
> 
>> Set to 2 to send syncookies unconditionally, which can be useful for network testing (since Linux 3.12).
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil
> 

Thanks for the report, and for the links and suggestion!

I'll update that.

Cheers,

Alex

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/

      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-07 16:10 Missing value for tcp_syncookies sysctl Philip Rowlands
2020-12-07 16:34 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]

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