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| author |   Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> | 2014-09-02 15:49:26 +0200 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-09-04 22:26:14 -0700 |
| commit | a9fe8e29945d56f35235a3a0fba99b4cf181d211 (patch) | |
| tree | 54ad0e07c0f0d789abc31517256e43ad5ae878d6 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | ipv6: add sysctl_mld_qrv to configure query robustness variable (diff) | |
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ipv4: implement igmp_qrv sysctl to tune igmp robustness variable
As in IPv6 people might increase the igmp query robustness variable to
make sure unsolicited state change reports aren't lost on the network. Add
and document this new knob to igmp code.
RFCs allow tuning this parameter back to first IGMP RFC, so we also use
this setting for all counters, including source specific multicast.
Also take over sysctl value when upping the interface and don't reuse
the last one seen on the interface.
Cc: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index cfc71ac0f764..db2383cb1df9 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -844,6 +844,11 @@ igmp_max_memberships - INTEGER conf/all/* is special, changes the settings for all interfaces +igmp_qrv - INTEGER + Controls the IGMP query robustness variable (see RFC2236 8.1). + Default: 2 (as specified by RFC2236 8.1) + Minimum: 1 (as specified by RFC6636 4.5) + log_martians - BOOLEAN Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log. log_martians for the interface will be enabled if at least one of |