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authorHarout Hedeshian <harouth@codeaurora.org>2015-01-20 10:06:05 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-01-25 14:54:41 -0800
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net: ipv6: Add sysctl entry to disable MTU updates from RA
The kernel forcefully applies MTU values received in router advertisements provided the new MTU is less than the current. This behavior is undesirable when the user space is managing the MTU. Instead a sysctl flag 'accept_ra_mtu' is introduced such that the user space can control whether or not RA provided MTU updates should be applied. The default behavior is unchanged; user space must explicitly set this flag to 0 for RA MTUs to be ignored. Signed-off-by: Harout Hedeshian <harouth@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 85b022179104..a5e4c813f17f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -1287,6 +1287,13 @@ accept_ra_rtr_pref - BOOLEAN
Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
+accept_ra_mtu - BOOLEAN
+ Apply the MTU value specified in RA option 5 (RFC4861). If
+ disabled, the MTU specified in the RA will be ignored.
+
+ Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
+ disabled if accept_ra is disabled.
+
accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
Accept Redirects.