From fab42760843734a82b6b2d1241ca44f375a686eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fan Du Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:18:25 +0800 Subject: ipv4: Documenting two sysctls for tcp PMTU probe Namely tcp_probe_interval to control how often to restart a probe. And tcp_probe_threshold to control when stop the probing in respect to the width of search range in bytes Signed-off-by: Fan Du Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 1b8c964b0d17..4412f695a62f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -388,6 +388,16 @@ tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER 1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected 2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss. +tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER + Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU + Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as + per RFC4821. + +tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER + Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing + will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default + is 8 bytes. + tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache when the connection closes, so that connections established in the -- cgit v1.2.3