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| author | Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> | 2015-07-31 16:52:12 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-07-31 17:07:11 -0700 |
| commit | 42240901f7c438636715b9cb6ed93f4441ffc091 (patch) | |
| tree | 44dfaaed66aa97ef93dc5921bedfac3808058210 /Documentation | |
| parent | 67800f9b1f4eb5bbefc32e3f5044097354bc85b3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-42240901f7c438636715b9cb6ed93f4441ffc091.tar.bz2 | |
ipv6: Implement different admin modes for automatic flow labels
Change the meaning of net.ipv6.auto_flowlabels to provide a mode for
automatic flow labels generation. There are four modes:
0: flow labels are disabled
1: flow labels are enabled, sockets can opt-out
2: flow labels are allowed, sockets can opt-in
3: flow labels are enabled and enforced, no opt-out for sockets
np->autoflowlabel is initialized according to the sysctl value.
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 00d26d919459..9ac3af3ab739 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1215,14 +1215,20 @@ flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN FALSE: disabled Default: TRUE -auto_flowlabels - BOOLEAN - Automatically generate flow labels based based on a flow hash - of the packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, - to idenfify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath +auto_flowlabels - INTEGER + Automatically generate flow labels based on a flow hash of the + packet. This allows intermediate devices, such as routers, to + identify packet flows for mechanisms like Equal Cost Multipath Routing (see RFC 6438). - TRUE: enabled - FALSE: disabled - Default: false + 0: automatic flow labels are completely disabled + 1: automatic flow labels are enabled by default, they can be + disabled on a per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL + socket option + 2: automatic flow labels are allowed, they may be enabled on a + per socket basis using the IPV6_AUTOFLOWLABEL socket option + 3: automatic flow labels are enabled and enforced, they cannot + be disabled by the socket option + Default: 0 flowlabel_state_ranges - BOOLEAN Split the flow label number space into two ranges. 0-0x7FFFF is |