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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2025-11-21 23:57:34 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2025-11-25 01:09:34 +0100
commit35c8e74c3da869a773f8503fbf0adafdcf3dad45 (patch)
tree7e7b522349fd94bd851eab54624c05f494412555
parent35531bb8a7d6e60ea1fa228f56810ca72c3c0383 (diff)
downloadman-pages-35c8e74c3da869a773f8503fbf0adafdcf3dad45.tar.gz
man/man5/proc_sys_net_ipv4.5: Tweak after split
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--man/man5/proc_sys_net_ipv4.540
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/man/man5/proc_sys_net_ipv4.5 b/man/man5/proc_sys_net_ipv4.5
index a5111e2989..57917cd64b 100644
--- a/man/man5/proc_sys_net_ipv4.5
+++ b/man/man5/proc_sys_net_ipv4.5
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ interfaces to configure some global parameters.
The parameters can be accessed by reading or writing files in the directory
.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ .
.\" FIXME As at 2.6.12, 14 Jun 2005, the following are undocumented:
-.\" ip_queue_maxlen
-.\" ip_conntrack_max
+.\" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_queue_maxlen
+.\" /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max
Interfaces described as
.I Boolean
take an integer value, with a nonzero value ("true") meaning that
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ the corresponding option is enabled, and a zero value ("false")
meaning that the option is disabled.
.\"
.TP
-.IR ip_always_defrag " (Boolean; since Linux 2.2.13)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag " (Boolean; since Linux 2.2.13)"
[New with Linux 2.2.13;
in earlier kernel versions this feature
was controlled at compile time by the
@@ -51,13 +51,13 @@ This is automagically turned on
when masquerading or transparent proxying are configured.
.\"
.TP
-.IR ip_autoconfig " (since Linux 2.2 to Linux 2.6.17)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_autoconfig " (since Linux 2.2 to Linux 2.6.17)"
.\" Precisely: since Linux 2.1.68
-.\" FIXME document ip_autoconfig
+.\" FIXME document /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_autoconfig
Not documented.
.\"
.TP
-.IR ip_default_ttl " (integer; default: 64; since Linux 2.2)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_default_ttl " (integer; default: 64; since Linux 2.2)"
.\" Precisely: since Linux 2.1.15
Set the default time-to-live value of outgoing packets.
This can be changed per socket with the
@@ -65,19 +65,19 @@ This can be changed per socket with the
option.
.\"
.TP
-.IR ip_dynaddr " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 2.0.31)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 2.0.31)"
Enable dynamic socket address and masquerading entry rewriting on interface
address change.
This is useful for dialup interface with changing IP addresses.
0 means no rewriting, 1 turns it on and 2 enables verbose mode.
.\"
.TP
-.IR ip_forward " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 1.2)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 1.2)"
Enable IP forwarding with a boolean flag.
IP forwarding can be also set on a per-interface basis.
.\"
.TP
-.IR ip_local_port_range " (since Linux 2.2)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range " (since Linux 2.2)"
.\" Precisely: since Linux 2.1.68
This file contains two integers that define the default local port range
allocated to sockets that are not explicitly bound to a port number\[em]that
@@ -100,13 +100,13 @@ is called on a datagram socket that was not previously bound.
.RE
.IP
Allocation of ephemeral ports starts with the first number in
-.I ip_local_port_range
+.I /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
and ends with the second number.
If the range of ephemeral ports is exhausted,
then the relevant system call returns an error (but see BUGS).
.IP
Note that the port range in
-.I ip_local_port_range
+.I /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
should not conflict with the ports used by masquerading
(although the case is handled).
Also, arbitrary choices may cause problems with some firewall packet
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ or better, greater than 4096, to avoid clashes
with well known ports and to minimize firewall problems.
.\"
.TP
-.IR ip_no_pmtu_disc " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 2.2)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 2.2)"
.\" Precisely: 2.1.15
If enabled, don't do Path MTU Discovery for TCP sockets by default.
Path MTU discovery may fail if misconfigured firewalls (that drop
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ to the network.
.\"
.\" The following is from Linux 2.6.12: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
.TP
-.IR ip_nonlocal_bind " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 2.4)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_nonlocal_bind " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 2.4)"
.\" Precisely: patch-2.4.0-test10
If set, allows processes to
.BR bind (2)
@@ -137,25 +137,25 @@ which can be quite useful, but may break some applications.
.\"
.\" The following is from Linux 2.6.12: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
.TP
-.IR ip6frag_time " (integer; default: 30)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip6frag_time " (integer; default: 30)"
Time in seconds to keep an IPv6 fragment in memory.
.\"
.\" The following is from Linux 2.6.12: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
.TP
-.IR ip6frag_secret_interval " (integer; default: 600)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip6frag_secret_interval " (integer; default: 600)"
Regeneration interval (in seconds) of the hash secret (or lifetime
for the hash secret) for IPv6 fragments.
.TP
-.IR ipfrag_high_thresh " (integer)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_high_thresh " (integer)"
.TQ
-.IR ipfrag_low_thresh " (integer)"
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_low_thresh " (integer)"
If the amount of queued IP fragments reaches
-.IR ipfrag_high_thresh ,
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_high_thresh ,
the queue is pruned down to
-.IR ipfrag_low_thresh .
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_low_thresh .
Contains an integer with the number of bytes.
.TP
-.I neigh/*
+.IR /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/ *
See
.BR arp (7).
.\" FIXME Document the conf/*/* interfaces