* [PATCH 0/2] Janitor fixes for net/ipv4/Kconfig @ 2009-02-20 14:59 Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2009-02-20 15:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] Doc: Fix rp_filter description in net/ipv4/Kconfig Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2009-02-20 15:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] Doc: Clean whitespaces in net/ipv4/Kconfig Jesper Dangaard Brouer 0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-20 14:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David S. Miller; +Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kernel Janitors Here is two janitor documentation fixes for net/ipv4/Kconfig. -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards Jesper Brouer ComX Networks A/S Linux Network developer Cand. Scient Datalog / MSc. Author of http://adsl-optimizer.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* [PATCH 1/2] Doc: Fix rp_filter description in net/ipv4/Kconfig. 2009-02-20 14:59 [PATCH 0/2] Janitor fixes for net/ipv4/Kconfig Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-20 15:03 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2009-02-22 8:06 ` David Miller 2009-02-20 15:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] Doc: Clean whitespaces in net/ipv4/Kconfig Jesper Dangaard Brouer 1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-20 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David S. Miller; +Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kernel Janitors Author: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Date: Fri Feb 20 15:20:57 2009 +0100 Doc: Fix rp_filter description in net/ipv4/Kconfig. The reverse path filter (rp_filter) will NOT get enabled when enabling forwarding. Read the code and tested in in practice. Most distributions does enable it in startup scripts. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig index 691268f..10c944d 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted. - If you turn on IP forwarding, you will also get the rp_filter, which + If you turn on IP forwarding, you should consider the rp_filter, which automatically rejects incoming packets if the routing table entry for their source address doesn't match the network interface they're arriving on. This has security advantages because it prevents the @@ -46,9 +46,11 @@ config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER rp_filter on use: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter - or + and echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter + Note that some distributions enable it in startup scripts. + If unsure, say N here. choice ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 1/2] Doc: Fix rp_filter description in net/ipv4/Kconfig. 2009-02-20 15:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] Doc: Fix rp_filter description in net/ipv4/Kconfig Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-22 8:06 ` David Miller 2009-02-23 14:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] Doc: Fix typos in ip-sysctl.txt about rp_filter Jesper Dangaard Brouer ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: David Miller @ 2009-02-22 8:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: jdb; +Cc: netdev, kernel-janitors From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:03:13 +0100 > Author: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> > Date: Fri Feb 20 15:20:57 2009 +0100 > > Doc: Fix rp_filter description in net/ipv4/Kconfig. > > The reverse path filter (rp_filter) will NOT get enabled > when enabling forwarding. Read the code and tested in > in practice. > > Most distributions does enable it in startup scripts. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Applied, thanks Jesper. Could you write a follow-on patch that accounts for the change Stephen just made in net-next-2.6 which allows strong vs. weak rp filtering? Thanks. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* [PATCH 1/3] Doc: Fix typos in ip-sysctl.txt about rp_filter. 2009-02-22 8:06 ` David Miller @ 2009-02-23 14:37 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2009-02-24 11:48 ` David Miller 2009-02-23 14:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] Doc: Cleanup whitespaces in ip-sysctl.txt Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2009-02-23 14:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter mode Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-23 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev, kernel-janitors First fix a typo in Stephens patch ;-) Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 71041c2..e0b8c2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -711,8 +711,8 @@ rp_filter - INTEGER the packet check will fail. Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode - to prevent IP spoofin from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing - or other complicated routing,t hen loose mode is recommended. + to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing + or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended. conf/all/rp_filter must also be set to non-zero to do source validation on the interface ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 1/3] Doc: Fix typos in ip-sysctl.txt about rp_filter. 2009-02-23 14:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] Doc: Fix typos in ip-sysctl.txt about rp_filter Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-24 11:48 ` David Miller 0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: David Miller @ 2009-02-24 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: jdb; +Cc: netdev, kernel-janitors From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:37:55 +0100 > > First fix a typo in Stephens patch ;-) > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Applied. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* [PATCH 2/3] Doc: Cleanup whitespaces in ip-sysctl.txt 2009-02-22 8:06 ` David Miller 2009-02-23 14:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] Doc: Fix typos in ip-sysctl.txt about rp_filter Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-23 14:39 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2009-02-24 11:48 ` David Miller 2009-02-23 14:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter mode Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-23 14:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev, kernel-janitors Fix up whitespaces while going though ip-sysctl.txt anyway. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 118 ++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index e0b8c2c..7185e4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ip_forward - BOOLEAN 0 - disabled (default) - not 0 - enabled + not 0 - enabled Forward Packets between interfaces. @@ -36,49 +36,49 @@ rt_cache_rebuild_count - INTEGER IP Fragmentation: ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER - Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When + Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose, the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh is reached. - + ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER - See ipfrag_high_thresh + See ipfrag_high_thresh ipfrag_time - INTEGER - Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory. + Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory. ipfrag_secret_interval - INTEGER - Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime + Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime for the hash secret) for IP fragments. Default: 600 ipfrag_max_dist - INTEGER - ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the - maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a - common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is - not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source - IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it - probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue - have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check - is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if - ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP - address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source - address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are - lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one + ipfrag_max_dist is a non-negative integer value which defines the + maximum "disorder" which is allowed among fragments which share a + common IP source address. Note that reordering of packets is + not unusual, but if a large number of fragments arrive from a source + IP address while a particular fragment queue remains incomplete, it + probably indicates that one or more fragments belonging to that queue + have been lost. When ipfrag_max_dist is positive, an additional check + is done on fragments before they are added to a reassembly queue - if + ipfrag_max_dist (or more) fragments have arrived from a particular IP + address between additions to any IP fragment queue using that source + address, it's presumed that one or more fragments in the queue are + lost. The existing fragment queue will be dropped, and a new one started. An ipfrag_max_dist value of zero disables this check. Using a very small value, e.g. 1 or 2, for ipfrag_max_dist can result in unnecessarily dropping fragment queues when normal - reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application - performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the - likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate + reordering of packets occurs, which could lead to poor application + performance. Using a very large value, e.g. 50000, increases the + likelihood of incorrectly reassembling IP fragments that originate from different IP datagrams, which could result in data corruption. Default: 64 INET peer storage: inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER - The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold + The approximate size of the storage. Starting from this threshold entries will be thrown aggressively. This threshold also determines entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection passes. More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval. @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool. Measured in seconds. -TCP variables: +TCP variables: somaxconn - INTEGER Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN. @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER tcp_reordering - INTEGER Maximal reordering of packets in a TCP stream. - Default: 3 + Default: 3 tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers. @@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ IP Variables: ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to - choose the local port. The first number is the first, the + choose the local port. The first number is the first, the second the last local port number. Default value depends on amount of memory available on the system: > 128Mb 32768-61000 @@ -594,12 +594,12 @@ icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr - BOOLEAN If zero, icmp error messages are sent with the primary address of the exiting interface. - + If non-zero, the message will be sent with the primary address of the interface that received the packet that caused the icmp error. This is the behaviour network many administrators will expect from a router. And it can make debugging complicated network layouts - much easier. + much easier. Note that if no primary address exists for the interface selected, then the primary address of the first non-loopback interface that @@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to. Default: 20 -conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where "interface" is +conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where "interface" is the name of your network interface) conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces @@ -625,11 +625,11 @@ log_martians - BOOLEAN accept_redirects - BOOLEAN Accept ICMP redirect messages. accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if: - - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case forwarding - for the interface is enabled + - both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case + forwarding for the interface is enabled or - - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the case - forwarding for the interface is disabled + - at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the + case forwarding for the interface is disabled accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise default TRUE (host) FALSE (router) @@ -640,8 +640,8 @@ forwarding - BOOLEAN mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE and a multicast routing daemon is required. - conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast routing - for the interface + conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast + routing for the interface medium_id - INTEGER Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they @@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ medium_id - INTEGER the broadcast packets are received only on one of them. The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known. - + Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior: the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between two devices attached to different media. @@ -710,9 +710,9 @@ rp_filter - INTEGER and if the source address is not reachable via any interface the packet check will fail. - Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode + Current recommended practice in RFC3704 is to enable strict mode to prevent IP spoofing from DDos attacks. If using asymmetric routing - or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended. + or other complicated routing, then loose mode is recommended. conf/all/rp_filter must also be set to non-zero to do source validation on the interface @@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ apply to IPv6 [XXX?]. bindv6only - BOOLEAN Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option, - which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication + which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication only. TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature @@ -845,19 +845,19 @@ bindv6only - BOOLEAN IPv6 Fragmentation: ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER - Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When + Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose, the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh is reached. - + ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER - See ip6frag_high_thresh + See ip6frag_high_thresh ip6frag_time - INTEGER Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory. ip6frag_secret_interval - INTEGER - Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime + Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime for the hash secret) for IPv6 fragments. Default: 600 @@ -866,17 +866,17 @@ conf/default/*: conf/all/*: - Change all the interface-specific settings. + Change all the interface-specific settings. [XXX: Other special features than forwarding?] conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN - Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces. + Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces. - IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used + IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not. - This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting + This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting 'forwarding' to the specified value. See below for details. This referred to as global forwarding. @@ -887,12 +887,12 @@ proxy_ndp - BOOLEAN conf/interface/*: Change special settings per interface. - The functional behaviour for certain settings is different + The functional behaviour for certain settings is different depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not. accept_ra - BOOLEAN Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them. - + Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled. disabled if local forwarding is enabled. @@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ accept_source_route - INTEGER Default: 0 autoconf - BOOLEAN - Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router + Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router Advertisements. Functional default: enabled if accept_ra_pinfo is enabled. @@ -947,11 +947,11 @@ autoconf - BOOLEAN dad_transmits - INTEGER The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send. Default: 1 - + forwarding - BOOLEAN - Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour. + Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour. - Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all + Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon. FALSE: @@ -960,13 +960,13 @@ forwarding - BOOLEAN 1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements. 2. Router Solicitations are being sent when necessary. - 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router + 3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration). 4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects. TRUE: - If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed. + If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed. This means exactly the reverse from the above: 1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements. @@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER Default: 4 router_solicitations - INTEGER - Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no + Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no routers are present. Default: 3 @@ -1025,11 +1025,11 @@ temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER max_desync_factor - INTEGER Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value - that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each + that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time. value is in seconds. Default: 600 - + regen_max_retry - INTEGER Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate valid temporary addresses. @@ -1037,8 +1037,8 @@ regen_max_retry - INTEGER max_addresses - INTEGER Number of maximum addresses per interface. 0 disables limitation. - It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would - be too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of + It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would + be too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of autoconfigured addresses. Default: 16 ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 2/3] Doc: Cleanup whitespaces in ip-sysctl.txt 2009-02-23 14:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] Doc: Cleanup whitespaces in ip-sysctl.txt Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-24 11:48 ` David Miller 0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: David Miller @ 2009-02-24 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: jdb; +Cc: netdev, kernel-janitors From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:39:04 +0100 > > Fix up whitespaces while going though ip-sysctl.txt anyway. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Applied. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* [PATCH 3/3] Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter mode 2009-02-22 8:06 ` David Miller 2009-02-23 14:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] Doc: Fix typos in ip-sysctl.txt about rp_filter Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2009-02-23 14:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] Doc: Cleanup whitespaces in ip-sysctl.txt Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-23 14:40 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2009-02-24 11:48 ` David Miller 2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-23 14:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev, kernel-janitors The IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER Kconfig describes the rp_filter proc option. Recent changes added a loose mode. Instead of documenting this change too places, refer to the document describing it: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt I'm considering moving the rp_filter description away from the Kconfig file into ip-sysctl.txt. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> --- net/ipv4/Kconfig | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig index c7a8148..b2cf91e 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig @@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter Note that some distributions enable it in startup scripts. + For details about rp_filter strict and loose mode read + <file:Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt>. If unsure, say N here. ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 3/3] Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter mode 2009-02-23 14:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] Doc: Refer to ip-sysctl.txt for strict vs. loose rp_filter mode Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-24 11:48 ` David Miller 0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: David Miller @ 2009-02-24 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: jdb; +Cc: netdev, kernel-janitors From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:40:43 +0100 > > The IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER Kconfig describes the rp_filter > proc option. Recent changes added a loose mode. > Instead of documenting this change too places, refer to > the document describing it: > Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt > > I'm considering moving the rp_filter description away > from the Kconfig file into ip-sysctl.txt. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Also applied, thanks a lot Jesper. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* [PATCH 2/2] Doc: Clean whitespaces in net/ipv4/Kconfig. 2009-02-20 14:59 [PATCH 0/2] Janitor fixes for net/ipv4/Kconfig Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2009-02-20 15:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] Doc: Fix rp_filter description in net/ipv4/Kconfig Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-20 15:04 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer 2009-02-22 8:07 ` David Miller 1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-20 15:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David S. Miller; +Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kernel Janitors Author: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Date: Fri Feb 20 15:35:40 2009 +0100 Doc: Clean whitespaces in net/ipv4/Kconfig. While going through net/ipv4/Kconfig cleanup whitespaces. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig index 10c944d..c7a8148 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER If unsure, say N here. -choice +choice prompt "Choose IP: FIB lookup algorithm (choose FIB_HASH if unsure)" depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER default ASK_IP_FIB_HASH @@ -61,27 +61,29 @@ choice config ASK_IP_FIB_HASH bool "FIB_HASH" ---help--- - Current FIB is very proven and good enough for most users. + Current FIB is very proven and good enough for most users. config IP_FIB_TRIE bool "FIB_TRIE" ---help--- - Use new experimental LC-trie as FIB lookup algorithm. - This improves lookup performance if you have a large - number of routes. - - LC-trie is a longest matching prefix lookup algorithm which - performs better than FIB_HASH for large routing tables. - But, it consumes more memory and is more complex. - - LC-trie is described in: - - IP-address lookup using LC-tries. Stefan Nilsson and Gunnar Karlsson - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 17(6):1083-1092, June 1999 - An experimental study of compression methods for dynamic tries - Stefan Nilsson and Matti Tikkanen. Algorithmica, 33(1):19-33, 2002. - http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/dyntrie2/ - + Use new experimental LC-trie as FIB lookup algorithm. + This improves lookup performance if you have a large + number of routes. + + LC-trie is a longest matching prefix lookup algorithm which + performs better than FIB_HASH for large routing tables. + But, it consumes more memory and is more complex. + + LC-trie is described in: + + IP-address lookup using LC-tries. Stefan Nilsson and Gunnar Karlsson + IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 17(6):1083-1092, + June 1999 + + An experimental study of compression methods for dynamic tries + Stefan Nilsson and Matti Tikkanen. Algorithmica, 33(1):19-33, 2002. + http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/dyntrie2/ + endchoice config IP_FIB_HASH @@ -193,7 +195,7 @@ config IP_PNP_RARP <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt> for details. # not yet ready.. -# bool ' IP: ARP support' CONFIG_IP_PNP_ARP +# bool ' IP: ARP support' CONFIG_IP_PNP_ARP config NET_IPIP tristate "IP: tunneling" select INET_TUNNEL @@ -363,7 +365,7 @@ config INET_IPCOMP ---help--- Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173), typically needed for IPsec. - + If unsure, say Y. config INET_XFRM_TUNNEL @@ -417,7 +419,7 @@ config INET_DIAG Support for INET (TCP, DCCP, etc) socket monitoring interface used by native Linux tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently downloadable at <http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Iproute2>. - + If unsure, say Y. config INET_TCP_DIAG ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 2/2] Doc: Clean whitespaces in net/ipv4/Kconfig. 2009-02-20 15:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] Doc: Clean whitespaces in net/ipv4/Kconfig Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2009-02-22 8:07 ` David Miller 0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: David Miller @ 2009-02-22 8:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: jdb; +Cc: netdev, kernel-janitors From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:04:26 +0100 > Doc: Clean whitespaces in net/ipv4/Kconfig. > > While going through net/ipv4/Kconfig cleanup whitespaces. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Also applied, thanks. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
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