From: Padraig Brady <padraig@antefacto.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: remedy@mirotel.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net sysctls questions
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:29:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D060948.9060104@antefacto.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02061117004401.01217@fortress.mirotel.net> <3D06051C.3030305@antefacto.com> <20020611.071225.65985367.davem@redhat.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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-11 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-11 14:00 net.ipv4.icmp_default_ttl Lev V. Vanyan
2002-06-11 14:11 ` net sysctls questions Padraig Brady
2002-06-11 14:12 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-11 14:29 ` Padraig Brady [this message]
2002-06-11 22:23 ` [PATCH] ip-sysctl.txt Padraig Brady
2002-06-12 6:21 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-13 9:57 ` net sysctls questions Remedy
2002-06-13 9:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-13 10:18 ` Remedy
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