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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 0d71fa9..c97932c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -26,7 +26,18 @@ ip_no_pmtu_disc - INTEGER discarded. Outgoing frames are handled the same as in mode 1, implicitly setting IP_PMTUDISC_DONT on every created socket. - Possible values: 0-2 + Mode 3 is a hardend pmtu discover mode. The kernel will only + accept fragmentation-needed errors if the underlying protocol + can verify them besides a plain socket lookup. Current + protocols for which pmtu events will be honored are TCP, SCTP + and DCCP as they verify e.g. the sequence number or the + association. This mode should not be enabled globally but is + only intended to secure e.g. name servers in namespaces where + TCP path mtu must still work but path MTU information of other + protocols should be discarded. If enabled globally this mode + could break other protocols. + + Possible values: 0-3 Default: FALSE min_pmtu - INTEGER |
