From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] update ip-sysctl.txt documentation Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 15:48:24 -0800 Message-ID: <20150106154824.6f2c9a75@urahara> References: <1420574648-24213-1-git-send-email-ani@arista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Ani Sinha Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f173.google.com ([209.85.192.173]:39557 "EHLO mail-pd0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751803AbbAFXse (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2015 18:48:34 -0500 Received: by mail-pd0-f173.google.com with SMTP id ft15so878807pdb.4 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:48:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 14:02:29 -0800 Ani Sinha wrote: > route/max_size - INTEGER > - Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase > - this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes. > + Post linux kernel 3.6, this is depricated for ipv4 as route cache is no > + longer used. For ipv6, this is used to limit the maximum number of ipv6 > + routes allowed in the kernel. Increase this when using large > numbers of > + interfaces and/or routes. 1. You used mailer with line wrap which broke the patch. 2. The spelling is not correct 'depricated'