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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-04-30 18:04:07 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-04-30 12:56:36 -0700
commit13df433f8c1333cd0f60e5e1878380a37576118a (patch)
treefdbaa47aa83c68555e87282cc53bb34ceb82020a
parentc4d5dff60f0a142937b52626653314f3d0a18420 (diff)
docs: networking: convert nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt to ReST
- add SPDX header; - add a document title; - mark lists as such; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst (renamed from Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt)51
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
index d98509f15363..e5128bb7e7df 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ Contents:
netdevices
netfilter-sysctl
netif-msg
+ nf_conntrack-sysctl
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst
index f75c2ce6e136..11a9b76786cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===================================
+Netfilter Conntrack Sysfs variables
+===================================
+
/proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_* Variables:
+=================================================
nf_conntrack_acct - BOOLEAN
- 0 - disabled (default)
- not 0 - enabled
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+ - not 0 - enabled
Enable connection tracking flow accounting. 64-bit byte and packet
counters per flow are added.
@@ -16,8 +23,8 @@ nf_conntrack_buckets - INTEGER
This sysctl is only writeable in the initial net namespace.
nf_conntrack_checksum - BOOLEAN
- 0 - disabled
- not 0 - enabled (default)
+ - 0 - disabled
+ - not 0 - enabled (default)
Verify checksum of incoming packets. Packets with bad checksums are
in INVALID state. If this is enabled, such packets will not be
@@ -27,8 +34,8 @@ nf_conntrack_count - INTEGER (read-only)
Number of currently allocated flow entries.
nf_conntrack_events - BOOLEAN
- 0 - disabled
- not 0 - enabled (default)
+ - 0 - disabled
+ - not 0 - enabled (default)
If this option is enabled, the connection tracking code will
provide userspace with connection tracking events via ctnetlink.
@@ -62,8 +69,8 @@ nf_conntrack_generic_timeout - INTEGER (seconds)
protocols.
nf_conntrack_helper - BOOLEAN
- 0 - disabled (default)
- not 0 - enabled
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+ - not 0 - enabled
Enable automatic conntrack helper assignment.
If disabled it is required to set up iptables rules to assign
@@ -81,14 +88,14 @@ nf_conntrack_icmpv6_timeout - INTEGER (seconds)
Default for ICMP6 timeout.
nf_conntrack_log_invalid - INTEGER
- 0 - disable (default)
- 1 - log ICMP packets
- 6 - log TCP packets
- 17 - log UDP packets
- 33 - log DCCP packets
- 41 - log ICMPv6 packets
- 136 - log UDPLITE packets
- 255 - log packets of any protocol
+ - 0 - disable (default)
+ - 1 - log ICMP packets
+ - 6 - log TCP packets
+ - 17 - log UDP packets
+ - 33 - log DCCP packets
+ - 41 - log ICMPv6 packets
+ - 136 - log UDPLITE packets
+ - 255 - log packets of any protocol
Log invalid packets of a type specified by value.
@@ -97,15 +104,15 @@ nf_conntrack_max - INTEGER
nf_conntrack_buckets value * 4.
nf_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal - BOOLEAN
- 0 - disabled (default)
- not 0 - enabled
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+ - not 0 - enabled
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
If it's non-zero, we mark only out of window RST segments as INVALID.
nf_conntrack_tcp_loose - BOOLEAN
- 0 - disabled
- not 0 - enabled (default)
+ - 0 - disabled
+ - not 0 - enabled (default)
If it is set to zero, we disable picking up already established
connections.
@@ -148,8 +155,8 @@ nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_unacknowledged - INTEGER (seconds)
default 300
nf_conntrack_timestamp - BOOLEAN
- 0 - disabled (default)
- not 0 - enabled
+ - 0 - disabled (default)
+ - not 0 - enabled
Enable connection tracking flow timestamping.