From 0b03a5ca8b14321366eec4a903922d2b46d585ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Suryaputra Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:29:27 -0400 Subject: ipv6: Add icmp_echo_ignore_anycast for ICMPv6 In addition to icmp_echo_ignore_multicast, there is a need to also prevent responding to pings to anycast addresses for security. Signed-off-by: Stephen Suryaputra Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 55ea7def46be..bd029fc55ccb 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1923,6 +1923,11 @@ echo_ignore_multicast - BOOLEAN requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol via multicast. Default: 0 +echo_ignore_anycast - BOOLEAN + If set non-zero, then the kernel will ignore all ICMP ECHO + requests sent to it over the IPv6 protocol destined to anycast address. + Default: 0 + xfrm6_gc_thresh - INTEGER The threshold at which we will start garbage collecting for IPv6 destination cache entries. At twice this value the system will -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b