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/proc/sys/net/ipv4/* Variables:

 ip_forward - BOOLEAN
        0 - disabled (default)
        not 0 - enabled 
	Forward Packets between interfaces.
This variable is special, its change resets all configuration
parameters to their default state (RFC1122 for hosts, RFC1812
for routers)

ip_default_ttl - INTEGER

default 64

ip_no_pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN

Disable Path MTU Discovery.
default FALSE

min_pmtu - INTEGER

default 562 - minimum discovered Path MTU

mtu_expires - INTEGER

Time, in seconds, that cached PMTU information is kept.

min_adv_mss - INTEGER

The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will
never be lower than this setting.

IP Fragmentation:

ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER

Maximum memory used to reassemble IP fragments. When 
ipfrag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
the fragment handler will toss packets until ipfrag_low_thresh
is reached.

ipfrag_low_thresh - INTEGER

See ipfrag_high_thresh	

ipfrag_time - INTEGER

Time in seconds to keep an IP fragment in memory.	

ipfrag_secret_interval - INTEGER

Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime 
for the hash secret) for IP fragments.
Default: 600

INET peer storage:

inet_peer_threshold - INTEGER

The approximate size of the storage.  Starting from this threshold	
entries will be thrown aggressively.  This threshold also determines
entries' time-to-live and time intervals between garbage collection
passes.  More entries, less time-to-live, less GC interval.

inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER

Minimum time-to-live of entries.  Should be enough to cover fragment
time-to-live on the reassembling side.  This minimum time-to-live  is
guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
Measured in jiffies(1).

inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER

Maximum time-to-live of entries.  Unused entries will expire after
this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
Measured in jiffies(1).

inet_peer_gc_mintime - INTEGER

Minimum interval between garbage collection passes.  This interval is
in effect under high memory pressure on the pool.
Measured in jiffies(1).

inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER

Minimum interval between garbage collection passes.  This interval is
in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool.
Measured in jiffies(1).

TCP variables:

tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER

Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.

tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER

Number of times SYNACKs for a passive TCP connection attempt will
be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
is 5, which corresponds to ~180seconds.

tcp_keepalive_time - INTEGER

How often TCP sends out keepalive messages when keepalive is enabled.
Default: 2hours.

tcp_keepalive_probes - INTEGER

How many keepalive probes TCP sends out, until it decides that the
connection is broken. Default value: 9.

tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER

How frequently the probes are send out. Multiplied by
tcp_keepalive_probes it is time to kill not responding connection,
after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.

tcp_retries1 - INTEGER

How many times to retry before deciding that something is wrong
and it is necessary to report this suspicion to network layer.
Minimal RFC value is 3, it is default, which corresponds
to ~3sec-8min depending on RTO.

tcp_retries2 - INTEGER

How may times to retry before killing alive TCP connection.
RFC1122 says that the limit should be longer than 100 sec.
It is too small number.	Default value 15 corresponds to ~13-30min
depending on RTO.

tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER

How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed
by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to ~50sec-16min
depending on RTO. If you machine is loaded WEB server,
you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.

tcp_fin_timeout - INTEGER

Time to hold socket in state FIN-WAIT-2, if it was closed
by our side. Peer can be broken and never close its side,
or even died unexpectedly. Default value is 60sec.
Usual value used in 2.2 was 180 seconds, you may restore
it, but remember that if your machine is even underloaded WEB server,
you risk to overflow memory with kilotons of dead sockets,
FIN-WAIT-2 sockets are less dangerous than FIN-WAIT-1,
because they eat maximum 1.5K of memory, but they tend
to live longer.	Cf. tcp_max_orphans.

tcp_max_tw_buckets - INTEGER

Maximal number of timewait sockets held by system simultaneously.
If this number is exceeded time-wait socket is immediately destroyed
and warning is printed. This limit exists only to prevent
simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not lower the limit artificially,
but rather increase it (probably, after increasing installed memory),
if network conditions require more than default value.

tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN

Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0.
It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
experts.

tcp_tw_reuse - BOOLEAN

Allow to reuse TIME-WAIT sockets for new connections when it is
safe from protocol viewpoint. Default value is 0.
It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
experts.

tcp_max_orphans - INTEGER

Maximal number of TCP sockets not attached to any user file handle,
held by system.	If this number is exceeded orphaned connections are
reset immediately and warning is printed. This limit exists
only to prevent simple DoS attacks, you _must_ not rely on this
or lower the limit artificially, but rather increase it
(probably, after increasing installed memory),
if network conditions require more than default value,
and tune network services to linger and kill such states
more aggressively. Let me to remind again: each orphan eats
up to ~64K of unswappable memory.

tcp_abort_on_overflow - BOOLEAN

If listening service is too slow to accept new connections,
reset them. Default state is FALSE. It means that if overflow
occurred due to a burst, connection will recover. Enable this
option _only_ if you are really sure that listening daemon
cannot be tuned to accept connections faster. Enabling this
option can harm clients of your server.

tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN

Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES
Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket 
overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'syn flood attack'
Default: FALSE
Note, that syncookies is fallback facility.
It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand
against legal connection rate. If you see synflood warnings
in your logs, but investigation	shows that they occur
because of overload with legal connections, you should tune
another parameters until this warning disappear.
See: tcp_max_syn_backlog, tcp_synack_retries, tcp_abort_on_overflow.
syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation
of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you,
but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see
synflood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server
is seriously misconfigured.

tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN

Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urg pointer field.
Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on
Linux might not communicate correctly with them.	
Default: FALSE 

tcp_max_syn_backlog - INTEGER

Maximal number of remembered connection requests, which are
still did not receive an acknowledgment from connecting client.
Default value is 1024 for systems with more than 128Mb of memory,
and 128 for low memory machines. If server suffers of overload,
try to increase this number.

tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN

Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323.

tcp_timestamps - BOOLEAN

Enable timestamps as defined in RFC1323.

tcp_sack - BOOLEAN

Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS).

tcp_fack - BOOLEAN

Enable FACK congestion avoidance and fast retransmission.
The value is not used, if tcp_sack is not enabled.

tcp_dsack - BOOLEAN

Allows TCP to send "duplicate" SACKs.

tcp_ecn - BOOLEAN

Enable Explicit Congestion Notification in TCP.

tcp_reordering - INTEGER

Maximal reordering of packets in a TCP stream.
Default: 3	

tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN

Bug-to-bug compatibility with some broken printers.
On retransmit try to send bigger packets to work around bugs in
certain TCP stacks.

tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max

min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP socket.
Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth.
Default: 4K
default: Amount of memory allowed for send buffers for TCP socket
by default. This value overrides net.core.wmem_default used
by other protocols, it is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default.
Default: 16K
max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically selected
send buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
net.core.wmem_max, "static" selection via SO_SNDBUF does not use this.
Default: 128K

tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max

min: Minimal size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
It is guaranteed to each TCP socket, even under moderate memory
pressure.
Default: 8K
default: default size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets.
This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols.
Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with
default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit
less for default tcp_app_win. See below about these variables.
max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically
selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override
net.core.rmem_max, "static" selection via SO_RCVBUF does not use this.
Default: 87380*2 bytes.

tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max

low: below this number of pages TCP is not bothered about its
memory appetite.
pressure: when amount of memory allocated by TCP exceeds this number
of pages, TCP moderates its memory consumption and enters memory
pressure mode, which is exited when memory consumption falls
under "low".
high: number of pages allowed for queueing by all TCP sockets.
Defaults are calculated at boot time from amount of available
memory.

tcp_app_win - INTEGER

Reserve max(window/2^tcp_app_win, mss) of window for application
buffer. Value 0 is special, it means that nothing is reserved.
Default: 31

tcp_adv_win_scale - INTEGER

Count buffering overhead as bytes/2^tcp_adv_win_scale
(if tcp_adv_win_scale > 0) or bytes-bytes/2^(-tcp_adv_win_scale),
if it is <= 0.
Default: 2

tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN

If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset,
we are not conforming to RFC, but prevent TCP TIME_WAIT
assassination.   
Default: 0

tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN

If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower
latency as opposed to higher throughput.  By default, this
option is not set meaning that higher throughput is preferred.
An example of an application where this default should be
changed would be a Beowulf compute cluster.
Default: 0

tcp_westwood - BOOLEAN

      Enable TCP Westwood+ congestion control algorithm.
TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno 
protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion 
control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set 
congestion window and slow start threshold after a congestion 
episode. Using this estimation, TCP Westwood+ adaptively sets a 
slow start threshold and a congestion window which takes into 
account the bandwidth used  at the time congestion is experienced. 
TCP Westwood+ significantly increases fairness wrt TCP Reno in 
wired networks and throughput over wireless links.   
      Default: 0

tcp_vegas_cong_avoid - BOOLEAN

Enable TCP Vegas congestion avoidance algorithm.
TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates
the onset of congestion by estimating the bandwidth. TCP Vegas
adjusts the sending rate by modifying the congestion
window. TCP Vegas should provide less packet loss, but it is
not as aggressive as TCP Reno.
Default:0

tcp_bic - BOOLEAN

Enable BIC TCP congestion control algorithm.
BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT
fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and
bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes
called additive increase and binary search increase. When the
congestion window is large, additive increase with a large
increment ensures linear RTT fairness as well as good
scalability. Under small congestion windows, binary search
increase provides TCP friendliness.
Default: 0

tcp_bic_low_window - INTEGER

Sets the threshold window (in packets) where BIC TCP starts to
adjust the congestion window. Below this threshold BIC TCP behaves
the same as the default TCP Reno. 
Default: 14

tcp_bic_fast_convergence - BOOLEAN

Forces BIC TCP to more quickly respond to changes in congestion
window. Allows two flows sharing the same connection to converge
more rapidly.
Default: 1

tcp_default_win_scale - INTEGER

Sets the minimum window scale TCP will negotiate for on all
conections.
Default: 7

tcp_tso_win_divisor - INTEGER

     This allows control over what percentage of the congestion window
     can be consumed by a single TSO frame.
     The setting of this parameter is a choice between burstiness and
     building larger TSO frames.
     Default: 8

tcp_frto - BOOLEAN

Enables F-RTO, an enhanced recovery algorithm for TCP retransmission
timeouts.  It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments
where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference
rather than intermediate router congestion.

somaxconn - INTEGER

Limit of socket listen() backlog, known in userspace as SOMAXCONN.
Defaults to 128.  See also tcp_max_syn_backlog for additional tuning
for TCP sockets.

IP Variables:

ip_local_port_range - 2 INTEGERS

Defines the local port range that is used by TCP and UDP to
choose the local port. The first number is the first, the 
second the last local port number. Default value depends on
amount of memory available on the system:
> 128Mb 32768-61000
< 128Mb 1024-4999 or even less.
This number defines number of active connections, which this
system can issue simultaneously to systems not supporting
TCP extensions (timestamps). With tcp_tw_recycle enabled
(i.e. by default) range 1024-4999 is enough to issue up to
2000 connections per second to systems supporting timestamps.

ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN

If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.
Default: 0

ip_dynaddr - BOOLEAN

If set non-zero, enables support for dynamic addresses.
If set to a non-zero value larger than 1, a kernel log
message will be printed when dynamic address rewriting
occurs.
Default: 0

icmp_echo_ignore_all - BOOLEAN icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts - BOOLEAN

If either is set to true, then the kernel will ignore either all
ICMP ECHO requests sent to it or just those to broadcast/multicast
addresses, respectively.

icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER

Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMP packets whose type matches
icmp_ratemask (see below) to specific targets.
0 to disable any limiting, otherwise the maximal rate in jiffies(1)
Default: 100

icmp_ratemask - INTEGER

Mask made of ICMP types for which rates are being limited.
Significant bits: IHGFEDCBA9876543210
Default mask:     0000001100000011000 (6168)
Bit definitions (see include/linux/icmp.h):
	0 Echo Reply
	3 Destination Unreachable *
	4 Source Quench *
	5 Redirect
	8 Echo Request
	B Time Exceeded *
	C Parameter Problem *
	D Timestamp Request
	E Timestamp Reply
	F Info Request
	G Info Reply
	H Address Mask Request
	I Address Mask Reply
  • These are rate limited by default (see default mask above)

icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses - BOOLEAN

Some routers violate RFC1122 by sending bogus responses to broadcast
frames.  Such violations are normally logged via a kernel warning.
If this is set to TRUE, the kernel will not give such warnings, which
will avoid log file clutter.
Default: FALSE

igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER

Change the maximum number of multicast groups we can subscribe to.
Default: 20

conf/interface/* changes special settings per interface (where “interface” is

	  the name of your network interface)

conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces

log_martians - BOOLEAN

Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log.
log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
conf/{all,interface}/log_martians is set to TRUE,
it will be disabled otherwise

accept_redirects - BOOLEAN

Accept ICMP redirect messages.
accept_redirects for the interface will be enabled if:
- both conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects are TRUE in the case forwarding
  for the interface is enabled
or
- at least one of conf/{all,interface}/accept_redirects is TRUE in the case
  forwarding for the interface is disabled
accept_redirects for the interface will be disabled otherwise
default TRUE (host)
	FALSE (router)

forwarding - BOOLEAN

Enable IP forwarding on this interface.

mc_forwarding - BOOLEAN

Do multicast routing. The kernel needs to be compiled with CONFIG_MROUTE
and a multicast routing daemon is required.
conf/all/mc_forwarding must also be set to TRUE to enable multicast routing
for the interface

medium_id - INTEGER

Integer value used to differentiate the devices by the medium they
are attached to. Two devices can have different id values when
the broadcast packets are received only on one of them.
The default value 0 means that the device is the only interface
to its medium, value of -1 means that medium is not known.

Currently, it is used to change the proxy_arp behavior:
the proxy_arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
two devices attached to different media.

proxy_arp - BOOLEAN

Do proxy arp.
proxy_arp for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
conf/{all,interface}/proxy_arp is set to TRUE,
it will be disabled otherwise

shared_media - BOOLEAN

Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects.
Overrides ip_secure_redirects.
shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE,
it will be disabled otherwise
default TRUE

secure_redirects - BOOLEAN

Accept ICMP redirect messages only for gateways,
listed in default gateway list.
secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE,
it will be disabled otherwise
default TRUE

send_redirects - BOOLEAN

Send redirects, if router.
send_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
conf/{all,interface}/send_redirects is set to TRUE,
it will be disabled otherwise
Default: TRUE

bootp_relay - BOOLEAN

Accept packets with source address 0.b.c.d destined
not to this host as local ones. It is supposed, that
BOOTP relay daemon will catch and forward such packets.
conf/all/bootp_relay must also be set to TRUE to enable BOOTP relay
for the interface
default FALSE
Not Implemented Yet.

accept_source_route - BOOLEAN

Accept packets with SRR option.
conf/all/accept_source_route must also be set to TRUE to accept packets
with SRR option on the interface
default TRUE (router)
	FALSE (host)

rp_filter - BOOLEAN

1 - do source validation by reversed path, as specified in RFC1812
    Recommended option for single homed hosts and stub network
    routers. Could cause troubles for complicated (not loop free)
    networks running a slow unreliable protocol (sort of RIP),
    or using static routes.
0 - No source validation.
conf/all/rp_filter must also be set to TRUE to do source validation
on the interface
Default value is 0. Note that some distributions enable it
in startup scripts.

arp_filter - BOOLEAN

1 - Allows you to have multiple network interfaces on the same
subnet, and have the ARPs for each interface be answered
based on whether or not the kernel would route a packet from
the ARP'd IP out that interface (therefore you must use source
based routing for this to work). In other words it allows control
of which cards (usually 1) will respond to an arp request.
0 - (default) The kernel can respond to arp requests with addresses
from other interfaces. This may seem wrong but it usually makes
sense, because it increases the chance of successful communication.
IP addresses are owned by the complete host on Linux, not by
particular interfaces. Only for more complex setups like load-
balancing, does this behaviour cause problems.
arp_filter for the interface will be enabled if at least one of
conf/{all,interface}/arp_filter is set to TRUE,
it will be disabled otherwise

arp_announce - INTEGER

Define different restriction levels for announcing the local
source IP address from IP packets in ARP requests sent on
interface:
0 - (default) Use any local address, configured on any interface
1 - Try to avoid local addresses that are not in the target's
subnet for this interface. This mode is useful when target
hosts reachable via this interface require the source IP
address in ARP requests to be part of their logical network
configured on the receiving interface. When we generate the
request we will check all our subnets that include the
target IP and will preserve the source address if it is from
such subnet. If there is no such subnet we select source
address according to the rules for level 2.
2 - Always use the best local address for this target.
In this mode we ignore the source address in the IP packet
and try to select local address that we prefer for talks with
the target host. Such local address is selected by looking
for primary IP addresses on all our subnets on the outgoing
interface that include the target IP address. If no suitable
local address is found we select the first local address
we have on the outgoing interface or on all other interfaces,
with the hope we will receive reply for our request and
even sometimes no matter the source IP address we announce.
The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_announce is used.
Increasing the restriction level gives more chance for
receiving answer from the resolved target while decreasing
the level announces more valid sender's information.

arp_ignore - INTEGER

Define different modes for sending replies in response to
received ARP requests that resolve local target IP addresses:
0 - (default): reply for any local target IP address, configured
on any interface
1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
configured on the incoming interface
2 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
configured on the incoming interface and both with the
sender's IP address are part from same subnet on this interface
3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope host,
only resolutions for global and link addresses are replied
4-7 - reserved
8 - do not reply for all local addresses
The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
when ARP request is received on the {interface}

app_solicit - INTEGER

The maximum number of probes to send to the user space ARP daemon
via netlink before dropping back to multicast probes (see
mcast_solicit).  Defaults to 0.

disable_policy - BOOLEAN

Disable IPSEC policy (SPD) for this interface

disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN

Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy

tag - INTEGER

Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
Default value is 0.

(1) Jiffie: internal timeunit for the kernel. On the i386 1/100s, on the Alpha 1/1024s. See the HZ define in /usr/include/asm/param.h for the exact value on your system.

Alexey Kuznetsov. kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru

Updated by: Andi Kleen ak@muc.de Nicolas Delon delon.nicolas@wanadoo.fr

/proc/sys/net/ipv6/* Variables:

IPv6 has no global variables such as tcp_*. tcp_* settings under ipv4/ also apply to IPv6 [XXX?].

bindv6only - BOOLEAN

Default value for IPV6_V6ONLY socket option,
which restricts use of the IPv6 socket to IPv6 communication 
only.
	TRUE: disable IPv4-mapped address feature
	FALSE: enable IPv4-mapped address feature
Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC2553bis)

IPv6 Fragmentation:

ip6frag_high_thresh - INTEGER

Maximum memory used to reassemble IPv6 fragments. When 
ip6frag_high_thresh bytes of memory is allocated for this purpose,
the fragment handler will toss packets until ip6frag_low_thresh
is reached.

ip6frag_low_thresh - INTEGER

See ip6frag_high_thresh	

ip6frag_time - INTEGER

Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.

ip6frag_secret_interval - INTEGER

Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime 
for the hash secret) for IPv6 fragments.
Default: 600

conf/default/*:

Change the interface-specific default settings.

conf/all/*:

Change all the interface-specific settings.  
[XXX:  Other special features than forwarding?]

conf/all/forwarding - BOOLEAN

Enable global IPv6 forwarding between all interfaces.  
IPv4 and IPv6 work differently here; e.g. netfilter must be used 
to control which interfaces may forward packets and which not.
This also sets all interfaces' Host/Router setting 
'forwarding' to the specified value.  See below for details.
This referred to as global forwarding.

conf/interface/*:

Change special settings per interface.
The functional behaviour for certain settings is different 
depending on whether local forwarding is enabled or not.

accept_ra - BOOLEAN

Accept Router Advertisements; autoconfigure using them.

Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
		    disabled if local forwarding is enabled.

accept_redirects - BOOLEAN

Accept Redirects.
Functional default: enabled if local forwarding is disabled.
		    disabled if local forwarding is enabled.

autoconf - BOOLEAN

Autoconfigure addresses using Prefix Information in Router 
Advertisements.
Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled.
		    disabled if accept_ra is disabled.

dad_transmits - INTEGER

The amount of Duplicate Address Detection probes to send.
Default: 1

forwarding - BOOLEAN

Configure interface-specific Host/Router behaviour.  
Note: It is recommended to have the same setting on all 
interfaces; mixed router/host scenarios are rather uncommon.
FALSE:
By default, Host behaviour is assumed.  This means:
1. IsRouter flag is not set in Neighbour Advertisements.
2. Router Solicitations are being sent when necessary.
3. If accept_ra is TRUE (default), accept Router 
   Advertisements (and do autoconfiguration).
4. If accept_redirects is TRUE (default), accept Redirects.
TRUE:
If local forwarding is enabled, Router behaviour is assumed. 
This means exactly the reverse from the above:
1. IsRouter flag is set in Neighbour Advertisements.
2. Router Solicitations are not sent.
3. Router Advertisements are ignored.
4. Redirects are ignored.
Default: FALSE if global forwarding is disabled (default),
	 otherwise TRUE.

hop_limit - INTEGER

Default Hop Limit to set.
Default: 64

mtu - INTEGER

Default Maximum Transfer Unit
Default: 1280 (IPv6 required minimum)

router_solicitation_delay - INTEGER

Number of seconds to wait after interface is brought up
before sending Router Solicitations.
Default: 1

router_solicitation_interval - INTEGER

Number of seconds to wait between Router Solicitations.
Default: 4

router_solicitations - INTEGER

Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no 
routers are present.
Default: 3

use_tempaddr - INTEGER

Preference for Privacy Extensions (RFC3041).
  <= 0 : disable Privacy Extensions
  == 1 : enable Privacy Extensions, but prefer public
         addresses over temporary addresses.
  >  1 : enable Privacy Extensions and prefer temporary
         addresses over public addresses.
Default:  0 (for most devices)
	 -1 (for point-to-point devices and loopback devices)

temp_valid_lft - INTEGER

valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
Default: 604800 (7 days)

temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER

Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.
Default: 86400 (1 day)

max_desync_factor - INTEGER

Maximum value for DESYNC_FACTOR, which is a random value
that ensures that clients don't synchronize with each 
other and generate new addresses at exactly the same time.
value is in seconds.
Default: 600

regen_max_retry - INTEGER

Number of attempts before give up attempting to generate
valid temporary addresses.
Default: 5

max_addresses - INTEGER

Number of maximum addresses per interface.  0 disables limitation.
It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would 
be too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of 
autoconfigured addresses.
Default: 16

icmp/*: ratelimit - INTEGER

Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
0 to disable any limiting, otherwise the maximal rate in jiffies(1)
Default: 100

IPv6 Update by: Pekka Savola pekkas@netcore.fi YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / USAGI Project yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org

/proc/sys/net/bridge/* Variables:

bridge-nf-call-arptables - BOOLEAN

1 : pass bridged ARP traffic to arptables' FORWARD chain.
0 : disable this.
Default: 1

bridge-nf-call-iptables - BOOLEAN

1 : pass bridged IPv4 traffic to iptables' chains.
0 : disable this.
Default: 1

bridge-nf-call-ip6tables - BOOLEAN

1 : pass bridged IPv6 traffic to ip6tables' chains.
0 : disable this.
Default: 1

bridge-nf-filter-vlan-tagged - BOOLEAN

1 : pass bridged vlan-tagged ARP/IP traffic to arptables/iptables.
0 : disable this.
Default: 1

UNDOCUMENTED:

dev_weight FIXME discovery_slots FIXME discovery_timeout FIXME fast_poll_increase FIXME ip6_queue_maxlen FIXME lap_keepalive_time FIXME lo_cong FIXME max_baud_rate FIXME max_dgram_qlen FIXME max_noreply_time FIXME max_tx_data_size FIXME max_tx_window FIXME min_tx_turn_time FIXME mod_cong FIXME no_cong FIXME no_cong_thresh FIXME slot_timeout FIXME warn_noreply_time FIXME

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