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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt')
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1 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 702d1d8dd04a..af6a63ab9026 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -179,11 +179,31 @@ tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend to live longer. Cf. tcp_max_orphans. -tcp_frto - BOOLEAN +tcp_frto - INTEGER Enables F-RTO, an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference - rather than intermediate router congestion. + rather than intermediate router congestion. If set to 1, basic + version is enabled. 2 enables SACK enhanced F-RTO, which is + EXPERIMENTAL. The basic version can be used also when SACK is + enabled for a flow through tcp_sack sysctl. + +tcp_frto_response - INTEGER + When F-RTO has detected that a TCP retransmission timeout was + spurious (i.e, the timeout would have been avoided had TCP set a + longer retransmission timeout), TCP has several options what to do + next. Possible values are: + 0 Rate halving based; a smooth and conservative response, + results in halved cwnd and ssthresh after one RTT + 1 Very conservative response; not recommended because even + though being valid, it interacts poorly with the rest of + Linux TCP, halves cwnd and ssthresh immediately + 2 Aggressive response; undoes congestion control measures + that are now known to be unnecessary (ignoring the + possibility of a lost retransmission that would require + TCP to be more cautious), cwnd and ssthresh are restored + to the values prior timeout + Default: 0 (rate halving based) tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled. @@ -995,7 +1015,12 @@ bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN Default: 1 bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN - 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP traffic to arptables/iptables. + 1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP/IPv6 traffic to {arp,ip,ip6}tables. + 0 : disable this. + Default: 1 + +bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN + 1 : pass bridged pppoe-tagged IP/IPv6 traffic to {ip,ip6}tables. 0 : disable this. Default: 1 |
