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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0a2ac88404d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.rst @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +==================== +MPLS Sysfs variables +==================== + +/proc/sys/net/mpls/* Variables: +=============================== + +platform_labels - INTEGER + Number of entries in the platform label table. It is not + possible to configure forwarding for label values equal to or + greater than the number of platform labels. + + A dense utilization of the entries in the platform label table + is possible and expected as the platform labels are locally + allocated. + + If the number of platform label table entries is set to 0 no + label will be recognized by the kernel and mpls forwarding + will be disabled. + + Reducing this value will remove all label routing entries that + no longer fit in the table. + + Possible values: 0 - 1048575 + + Default: 0 + +ip_ttl_propagate - BOOL + Control whether TTL is propagated from the IPv4/IPv6 header to + the MPLS header on imposing labels and propagated from the + MPLS header to the IPv4/IPv6 header on popping the last label. + + If disabled, the MPLS transport network will appear as a + single hop to transit traffic. + + * 0 - disabled / RFC 3443 [Short] Pipe Model + * 1 - enabled / RFC 3443 Uniform Model (default) + +default_ttl - INTEGER + Default TTL value to use for MPLS packets where it cannot be + propagated from an IP header, either because one isn't present + or ip_ttl_propagate has been disabled. + + Possible values: 1 - 255 + + Default: 255 + +conf/<interface>/input - BOOL + Control whether packets can be input on this interface. + + If disabled, packets will be discarded without further + processing. + + * 0 - disabled (default) + * not 0 - enabled |