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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-01-02 16:07:38 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-01-02 16:07:38 -0800
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net: Correct type of tcp_syncookies sysctl.
It can take on the values of '0', '1', and '2' and thus is not a boolean. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index fd26788e8c96..48ccb1b31160 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER
with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds.
-tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN
+tcp_syncookies - INTEGER
Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket
overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack'