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 ================================
 Documentation for /proc/sys/net/
 ================================

 Copyright

 Copyright (c) 1999

 	- Terrehon Bowden <terrehon@pacbell.net>
 	- Bodo Bauer <bb@ricochet.net>

 Copyright (c) 2000

 	- Jorge Nerin <comandante@zaralinux.com>

 Copyright (c) 2009

 	- Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>

 For general info and legal blurb, please look in index.rst.

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 This file contains the documentation for the sysctl files in
 /proc/sys/net

 The interface  to  the  networking  parts  of  the  kernel  is  located  in
 /proc/sys/net. The following table shows all possible subdirectories.  You may
 see only some of them, depending on your kernel's configuration.


 Table : Subdirectories in /proc/sys/net

  ========= =================== = ========== ===================
  Directory Content               Directory  Content
  ========= =================== = ========== ===================
  802       E802 protocol         mptcp      Multipath TCP
  appletalk Appletalk protocol    netfilter  Network Filter
  ax25      AX25                  netrom     NET/ROM
  bridge    Bridging              rose       X.25 PLP layer
  core      General parameter     tipc       TIPC
  ethernet  Ethernet protocol     unix       Unix domain sockets
  ipv4      IP version 4          x25        X.25 protocol
  ipv6      IP version 6
  ========= =================== = ========== ===================

 1. /proc/sys/net/core - Network core options
 ============================================

 bpf_jit_enable
 --------------

 This enables the BPF Just in Time (JIT) compiler. BPF is a flexible
 and efficient infrastructure allowing to execute bytecode at various
 hook points. It is used in a number of Linux kernel subsystems such
 as networking (e.g. XDP, tc), tracing (e.g. kprobes, uprobes, tracepoints)
 and security (e.g. seccomp). LLVM has a BPF back end that can compile
 restricted C into a sequence of BPF instructions. After program load
 through bpf(2) and passing a verifier in the kernel, a JIT will then
 translate these BPF proglets into native CPU instructions. There are
 two flavors of JITs, the newer eBPF JIT currently supported on:

   - x86_64
   - x86_32
   - arm64
   - arm32
   - ppc64
   - ppc32
   - sparc64
   - mips64
   - s390x
   - riscv64
   - riscv32

 And the older cBPF JIT supported on the following archs:

   - mips
   - sparc

 eBPF JITs are a superset of cBPF JITs, meaning the kernel will
 migrate cBPF instructions into eBPF instructions and then JIT
 compile them transparently. Older cBPF JITs can only translate
 tcpdump filters, seccomp rules, etc, but not mentioned eBPF
 programs loaded through bpf(2).

 Values:

 	- 0 - disable the JIT (default value)
 	- 1 - enable the JIT
 	- 2 - enable the JIT and ask the compiler to emit traces on kernel log.

 bpf_jit_harden
 --------------

 This enables hardening for the BPF JIT compiler. Supported are eBPF
 JIT backends. Enabling hardening trades off performance, but can
 mitigate JIT spraying.

 Values:

 	- 0 - disable JIT hardening (default value)
 	- 1 - enable JIT hardening for unprivileged users only
 	- 2 - enable JIT hardening for all users

 where "privileged user" in this context means a process having
 CAP_BPF or CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the root user name space.

 bpf_jit_kallsyms
 ----------------

 When BPF JIT compiler is enabled, then compiled images are unknown
 addresses to the kernel, meaning they neither show up in traces nor
 in /proc/kallsyms. This enables export of these addresses, which can
 be used for debugging/tracing. If bpf_jit_harden is enabled, this
 feature is disabled.

 Values :

 	- 0 - disable JIT kallsyms export (default value)
 	- 1 - enable JIT kallsyms export for privileged users only

 bpf_jit_limit
 -------------

 This enforces a global limit for memory allocations to the BPF JIT
 compiler in order to reject unprivileged JIT requests once it has
 been surpassed. bpf_jit_limit contains the value of the global limit
 in bytes.

 dev_weight
 ----------

 The maximum number of packets that kernel can handle on a NAPI interrupt,
 it's a Per-CPU variable. For drivers that support LRO or GRO_HW, a hardware
 aggregated packet is counted as one packet in this context.

 Default: 64

 dev_weight_rx_bias
 ------------------

 RPS (e.g. RFS, aRFS) processing is competing with the registered NAPI poll function
 of the driver for the per softirq cycle netdev_budget. This parameter influences
 the proportion of the configured netdev_budget that is spent on RPS based packet
 processing during RX softirq cycles. It is further meant for making current
 dev_weight adaptable for asymmetric CPU needs on RX/TX side of the network stack.
 (see dev_weight_tx_bias) It is effective on a per CPU basis. Determination is based
 on dev_weight and is calculated multiplicative (dev_weight * dev_weight_rx_bias).

 Default: 1

 dev_weight_tx_bias
 ------------------

 Scales the maximum number of packets that can be processed during a TX softirq cycle.
 Effective on a per CPU basis. Allows scaling of current dev_weight for asymmetric
 net stack processing needs. Be careful to avoid making TX softirq processing a CPU hog.

 Calculation is based on dev_weight (dev_weight * dev_weight_tx_bias).

 Default: 1

 default_qdisc
 -------------

 The default queuing discipline to use for network devices. This allows
 overriding the default of pfifo_fast with an alternative. Since the default
 queuing discipline is created without additional parameters so is best suited
 to queuing disciplines that work well without configuration like stochastic
 fair queue (sfq), CoDel (codel) or fair queue CoDel (fq_codel). Don't use
 queuing disciplines like Hierarchical Token Bucket or Deficit Round Robin
 which require setting up classes and bandwidths. Note that physical multiqueue
 interfaces still use mq as root qdisc, which in turn uses this default for its
 leaves. Virtual devices (like e.g. lo or veth) ignore this setting and instead
 default to noqueue.

 Default: pfifo_fast

 busy_read
 ---------

 Low latency busy poll timeout for socket reads. (needs CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL)
 Approximate time in us to busy loop waiting for packets on the device queue.
 This sets the default value of the SO_BUSY_POLL socket option.
 Can be set or overridden per socket by setting socket option SO_BUSY_POLL,
 which is the preferred method of enabling. If you need to enable the feature
 globally via sysctl, a value of 50 is recommended.

 Will increase power usage.

 Default: 0 (off)

 busy_poll
 ----------------
 Low latency busy poll timeout for poll and select. (needs CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL)
 Approximate time in us to busy loop waiting for events.
 Recommended value depends on the number of sockets you poll on.
 For several sockets 50, for several hundreds 100.
 For more than that you probably want to use epoll.
 Note that only sockets with SO_BUSY_POLL set will be busy polled,
 so you want to either selectively set SO_BUSY_POLL on those sockets or set
 sysctl.net.busy_read globally.

 Will increase power usage.

 Default: 0 (off)

 rmem_default
 ------------

 The default setting of the socket receive buffer in bytes.

 rmem_max
 --------

 The maximum receive socket buffer size in bytes.

 tstamp_allow_data
 -----------------
 Allow processes to receive tx timestamps looped together with the original
 packet contents. If disabled, transmit timestamp requests from unprivileged
 processes are dropped unless socket option SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY is set.

 Default: 1 (on)


 wmem_default
 ------------

 The default setting (in bytes) of the socket send buffer.

 wmem_max
 --------

 The maximum send socket buffer size in bytes.

 message_burst and message_cost
 ------------------------------

 These parameters  are used to limit the warning messages written to the kernel
 log from  the  networking  code.  They  enforce  a  rate  limit  to  make  a
 denial-of-service attack  impossible. A higher message_cost factor, results in
 fewer messages that will be written. Message_burst controls when messages will
 be dropped.  The  default  settings  limit  warning messages to one every five
 seconds.

 warnings
 --------

 This sysctl is now unused.

 This was used to control console messages from the networking stack that
 occur because of problems on the network like duplicate address or bad
 checksums.

 These messages are now emitted at KERN_DEBUG and can generally be enabled
 and controlled by the dynamic_debug facility.

 netdev_budget
 -------------

 Maximum number of packets taken from all interfaces in one polling cycle (NAPI
 poll). In one polling cycle interfaces which are registered to polling are
 probed in a round-robin manner. Also, a polling cycle may not exceed
 netdev_budget_usecs microseconds, even if netdev_budget has not been
 exhausted.

 netdev_budget_usecs
 ---------------------

 Maximum number of microseconds in one NAPI polling cycle. Polling
 will exit when either netdev_budget_usecs have elapsed during the
 poll cycle or the number of packets processed reaches netdev_budget.

 netdev_max_backlog
 ------------------

 Maximum number of packets, queued on the INPUT side, when the interface
 receives packets faster than kernel can process them.

 netdev_rss_key
 --------------

 RSS (Receive Side Scaling) enabled drivers use a 40 bytes host key that is
 randomly generated.
 Some user space might need to gather its content even if drivers do not
 provide ethtool -x support yet.

 ::

   myhost:~# cat /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_rss_key
   84:50:f4:00:a8:15:d1:a7:e9:7f:1d:60:35:c7:47:25:42:97:74:ca:56:bb:b6:a1:d8: ... (52 bytes total)

 File contains nul bytes if no driver ever called netdev_rss_key_fill() function.

 Note:
   /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_rss_key contains 52 bytes of key,
   but most drivers only use 40 bytes of it.

 ::

   myhost:~# ethtool -x eth0
   RX flow hash indirection table for eth0 with 8 RX ring(s):
       0:    0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
   RSS hash key:
   84:50:f4:00:a8:15:d1:a7:e9:7f:1d:60:35:c7:47:25:42:97:74:ca:56:bb:b6:a1:d8:43:e3:c9:0c:fd:17:55:c2:3a:4d:69:ed:f1:42:89

 netdev_tstamp_prequeue
 ----------------------

 If set to 0, RX packet timestamps can be sampled after RPS processing, when
 the target CPU processes packets. It might give some delay on timestamps, but
 permit to distribute the load on several cpus.

 If set to 1 (default), timestamps are sampled as soon as possible, before
 queueing.

 netdev_unregister_timeout_secs
 ------------------------------

 Unregister network device timeout in seconds.
 This option controls the timeout (in seconds) used to issue a warning while
 waiting for a network device refcount to drop to 0 during device
 unregistration. A lower value may be useful during bisection to detect
 a leaked reference faster. A larger value may be useful to prevent false
 warnings on slow/loaded systems.
 Default value is 10, minimum 1, maximum 3600.

 skb_defer_max
 -------------

 Max size (in skbs) of the per-cpu list of skbs being freed
 by the cpu which allocated them. Used by TCP stack so far.

 Default: 64

 optmem_max
 ----------

 Maximum ancillary buffer size allowed per socket. Ancillary data is a sequence
 of struct cmsghdr structures with appended data.

 fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net
 ----------------------------

 Controls if fallback tunnels (like tunl0, gre0, gretap0, erspan0,
 sit0, ip6tnl0, ip6gre0) are automatically created. There are 3 possibilities
 (a) value = 0; respective fallback tunnels are created when module is
 loaded in every net namespaces (backward compatible behavior).
 (b) value = 1; [kcmd value: initns] respective fallback tunnels are
 created only in init net namespace and every other net namespace will
 not have them.
 (c) value = 2; [kcmd value: none] fallback tunnels are not created
 when a module is loaded in any of the net namespace. Setting value to
 "2" is pointless after boot if these modules are built-in, so there is
 a kernel command-line option that can change this default. Please refer to
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for additional details.

 Not creating fallback tunnels gives control to userspace to create
 whatever is needed only and avoid creating devices which are redundant.

 Default : 0  (for compatibility reasons)

 devconf_inherit_init_net
 ------------------------

 Controls if a new network namespace should inherit all current
 settings under /proc/sys/net/{ipv4,ipv6}/conf/{all,default}/. By
 default, we keep the current behavior: for IPv4 we inherit all current
 settings from init_net and for IPv6 we reset all settings to default.

 If set to 1, both IPv4 and IPv6 settings are forced to inherit from
 current ones in init_net. If set to 2, both IPv4 and IPv6 settings are
 forced to reset to their default values. If set to 3, both IPv4 and IPv6
 settings are forced to inherit from current ones in the netns where this
 new netns has been created.

 Default : 0  (for compatibility reasons)

 txrehash
 --------

 Controls default hash rethink behaviour on listening socket when SO_TXREHASH
 option is set to SOCK_TXREHASH_DEFAULT (i. e. not overridden by setsockopt).

 If set to 1 (default), hash rethink is performed on listening socket.
 If set to 0, hash rethink is not performed.

 gro_normal_batch
 ----------------

 Maximum number of the segments to batch up on output of GRO. When a packet
 exits GRO, either as a coalesced superframe or as an original packet which
 GRO has decided not to coalesce, it is placed on a per-NAPI list. This
 list is then passed to the stack when the number of segments reaches the
 gro_normal_batch limit.

 high_order_alloc_disable
 ------------------------

 By default the allocator for page frags tries to use high order pages (order-3
 on x86). While the default behavior gives good results in most cases, some users
 might have hit a contention in page allocations/freeing. This was especially
 true on older kernels (< 5.14) when high-order pages were not stored on per-cpu
 lists. This allows to opt-in for order-0 allocation instead but is now mostly of
 historical importance.

 Default: 0

 2. /proc/sys/net/unix - Parameters for Unix domain sockets
 ----------------------------------------------------------

 There is only one file in this directory.
 unix_dgram_qlen limits the max number of datagrams queued in Unix domain
 socket's buffer. It will not take effect unless PF_UNIX flag is specified.


 3. /proc/sys/net/ipv4 - IPV4 settings
 -------------------------------------
 Please see: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst and
 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries.


 4. Appletalk
 ------------

 The /proc/sys/net/appletalk  directory  holds the Appletalk configuration data
 when Appletalk is loaded. The configurable parameters are:

 aarp-expiry-time
 ----------------

 The amount  of  time  we keep an ARP entry before expiring it. Used to age out
 old hosts.

 aarp-resolve-time
 -----------------

 The amount of time we will spend trying to resolve an Appletalk address.

 aarp-retransmit-limit
 ---------------------

 The number of times we will retransmit a query before giving up.

 aarp-tick-time
 --------------

 Controls the rate at which expires are checked.

 The directory  /proc/net/appletalk  holds the list of active Appletalk sockets
 on a machine.

 The fields  indicate  the DDP type, the local address (in network:node format)
 the remote  address,  the  size of the transmit pending queue, the size of the
 received queue  (bytes waiting for applications to read) the state and the uid
 owning the socket.

 /proc/net/atalk_iface lists  all  the  interfaces  configured for appletalk.It
 shows the  name  of the interface, its Appletalk address, the network range on
 that address  (or  network number for phase 1 networks), and the status of the
 interface.

 /proc/net/atalk_route lists  each  known  network  route.  It lists the target
 (network) that the route leads to, the router (may be directly connected), the
 route flags, and the device the route is using.

 5. TIPC
 -------

 tipc_rmem
 ---------

 The TIPC protocol now has a tunable for the receive memory, similar to the
 tcp_rmem - i.e. a vector of 3 INTEGERs: (min, default, max)

 ::

     # cat /proc/sys/net/tipc/tipc_rmem
     4252725 34021800        68043600
     #

 The max value is set to CONN_OVERLOAD_LIMIT, and the default and min values
 are scaled (shifted) versions of that same value.  Note that the min value
 is not at this point in time used in any meaningful way, but the triplet is
 preserved in order to be consistent with things like tcp_rmem.

 named_timeout
 -------------

 TIPC name table updates are distributed asynchronously in a cluster, without
 any form of transaction handling. This means that different race scenarios are
 possible. One such is that a name withdrawal sent out by one node and received
 by another node may arrive after a second, overlapping name publication already
 has been accepted from a third node, although the conflicting updates
 originally may have been issued in the correct sequential order.
 If named_timeout is nonzero, failed topology updates will be placed on a defer
 queue until another event arrives that clears the error, or until the timeout
 expires. Value is in milliseconds.
	================================
	Documentation for /proc/sys/net/
	================================

	Copyright

	Copyright (c) 1999

	- Terrehon Bowden <terrehon@pacbell.net>
	- Bodo Bauer <bb@ricochet.net>

	Copyright (c) 2000

	- Jorge Nerin <comandante@zaralinux.com>

	Copyright (c) 2009

	- Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>

	For general info and legal blurb, please look in index.rst.

	------------------------------------------------------------------------------

	This file contains the documentation for the sysctl files in
	/proc/sys/net

	The interface to the networking parts of the kernel is located in
	/proc/sys/net. The following table shows all possible subdirectories. You may
	see only some of them, depending on your kernel's configuration.


	Table : Subdirectories in /proc/sys/net

	========= =================== = ========== ===================
	Directory Content Directory Content
	========= =================== = ========== ===================
	802 E802 protocol mptcp Multipath TCP
	appletalk Appletalk protocol netfilter Network Filter
	ax25 AX25 netrom NET/ROM
	bridge Bridging rose X.25 PLP layer
	core General parameter tipc TIPC
	ethernet Ethernet protocol unix Unix domain sockets
	ipv4 IP version 4 x25 X.25 protocol
	ipv6 IP version 6
	========= =================== = ========== ===================

	1. /proc/sys/net/core - Network core options
	============================================

	bpf_jit_enable
	--------------

	This enables the BPF Just in Time (JIT) compiler. BPF is a flexible
	and efficient infrastructure allowing to execute bytecode at various
	hook points. It is used in a number of Linux kernel subsystems such
	as networking (e.g. XDP, tc), tracing (e.g. kprobes, uprobes, tracepoints)
	and security (e.g. seccomp). LLVM has a BPF back end that can compile
	restricted C into a sequence of BPF instructions. After program load
	through bpf(2) and passing a verifier in the kernel, a JIT will then
	translate these BPF proglets into native CPU instructions. There are
	two flavors of JITs, the newer eBPF JIT currently supported on:

	- x86_64
	- x86_32
	- arm64
	- arm32
	- ppc64
	- ppc32
	- sparc64
	- mips64
	- s390x
	- riscv64
	- riscv32

	And the older cBPF JIT supported on the following archs:

	- mips
	- sparc

	eBPF JITs are a superset of cBPF JITs, meaning the kernel will
	migrate cBPF instructions into eBPF instructions and then JIT
	compile them transparently. Older cBPF JITs can only translate
	tcpdump filters, seccomp rules, etc, but not mentioned eBPF
	programs loaded through bpf(2).

	Values:

	- 0 - disable the JIT (default value)
	- 1 - enable the JIT
	- 2 - enable the JIT and ask the compiler to emit traces on kernel log.

	bpf_jit_harden
	--------------

	This enables hardening for the BPF JIT compiler. Supported are eBPF
	JIT backends. Enabling hardening trades off performance, but can
	mitigate JIT spraying.

	Values:

	- 0 - disable JIT hardening (default value)
	- 1 - enable JIT hardening for unprivileged users only
	- 2 - enable JIT hardening for all users

	where "privileged user" in this context means a process having
	CAP_BPF or CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the root user name space.

	bpf_jit_kallsyms
	----------------

	When BPF JIT compiler is enabled, then compiled images are unknown
	addresses to the kernel, meaning they neither show up in traces nor
	in /proc/kallsyms. This enables export of these addresses, which can
	be used for debugging/tracing. If bpf_jit_harden is enabled, this
	feature is disabled.

	Values :

	- 0 - disable JIT kallsyms export (default value)
	- 1 - enable JIT kallsyms export for privileged users only

	bpf_jit_limit
	-------------

	This enforces a global limit for memory allocations to the BPF JIT
	compiler in order to reject unprivileged JIT requests once it has
	been surpassed. bpf_jit_limit contains the value of the global limit
	in bytes.

	dev_weight
	----------

	The maximum number of packets that kernel can handle on a NAPI interrupt,
	it's a Per-CPU variable. For drivers that support LRO or GRO_HW, a hardware
	aggregated packet is counted as one packet in this context.

	Default: 64

	dev_weight_rx_bias
	------------------

	RPS (e.g. RFS, aRFS) processing is competing with the registered NAPI poll function
	of the driver for the per softirq cycle netdev_budget. This parameter influences
	the proportion of the configured netdev_budget that is spent on RPS based packet
	processing during RX softirq cycles. It is further meant for making current
	dev_weight adaptable for asymmetric CPU needs on RX/TX side of the network stack.
	(see dev_weight_tx_bias) It is effective on a per CPU basis. Determination is based
	on dev_weight and is calculated multiplicative (dev_weight * dev_weight_rx_bias).

	Default: 1

	dev_weight_tx_bias
	------------------

	Scales the maximum number of packets that can be processed during a TX softirq cycle.
	Effective on a per CPU basis. Allows scaling of current dev_weight for asymmetric
	net stack processing needs. Be careful to avoid making TX softirq processing a CPU hog.

	Calculation is based on dev_weight (dev_weight * dev_weight_tx_bias).

	Default: 1

	default_qdisc
	-------------

	The default queuing discipline to use for network devices. This allows
	overriding the default of pfifo_fast with an alternative. Since the default
	queuing discipline is created without additional parameters so is best suited
	to queuing disciplines that work well without configuration like stochastic
	fair queue (sfq), CoDel (codel) or fair queue CoDel (fq_codel). Don't use
	queuing disciplines like Hierarchical Token Bucket or Deficit Round Robin
	which require setting up classes and bandwidths. Note that physical multiqueue
	interfaces still use mq as root qdisc, which in turn uses this default for its
	leaves. Virtual devices (like e.g. lo or veth) ignore this setting and instead
	default to noqueue.

	Default: pfifo_fast

	busy_read
	---------

	Low latency busy poll timeout for socket reads. (needs CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL)
	Approximate time in us to busy loop waiting for packets on the device queue.
	This sets the default value of the SO_BUSY_POLL socket option.
	Can be set or overridden per socket by setting socket option SO_BUSY_POLL,
	which is the preferred method of enabling. If you need to enable the feature
	globally via sysctl, a value of 50 is recommended.

	Will increase power usage.

	Default: 0 (off)

	busy_poll
	----------------
	Low latency busy poll timeout for poll and select. (needs CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL)
	Approximate time in us to busy loop waiting for events.
	Recommended value depends on the number of sockets you poll on.
	For several sockets 50, for several hundreds 100.
	For more than that you probably want to use epoll.
	Note that only sockets with SO_BUSY_POLL set will be busy polled,
	so you want to either selectively set SO_BUSY_POLL on those sockets or set
	sysctl.net.busy_read globally.

	Will increase power usage.

	Default: 0 (off)

	rmem_default
	------------

	The default setting of the socket receive buffer in bytes.

	rmem_max
	--------

	The maximum receive socket buffer size in bytes.

	tstamp_allow_data
	-----------------
	Allow processes to receive tx timestamps looped together with the original
	packet contents. If disabled, transmit timestamp requests from unprivileged
	processes are dropped unless socket option SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY is set.

	Default: 1 (on)


	wmem_default
	------------

	The default setting (in bytes) of the socket send buffer.

	wmem_max
	--------

	The maximum send socket buffer size in bytes.

	message_burst and message_cost
	------------------------------

	These parameters are used to limit the warning messages written to the kernel
	log from the networking code. They enforce a rate limit to make a
	denial-of-service attack impossible. A higher message_cost factor, results in
	fewer messages that will be written. Message_burst controls when messages will
	be dropped. The default settings limit warning messages to one every five
	seconds.

	warnings
	--------

	This sysctl is now unused.

	This was used to control console messages from the networking stack that
	occur because of problems on the network like duplicate address or bad
	checksums.

	These messages are now emitted at KERN_DEBUG and can generally be enabled
	and controlled by the dynamic_debug facility.

	netdev_budget
	-------------

	Maximum number of packets taken from all interfaces in one polling cycle (NAPI
	poll). In one polling cycle interfaces which are registered to polling are
	probed in a round-robin manner. Also, a polling cycle may not exceed
	netdev_budget_usecs microseconds, even if netdev_budget has not been
	exhausted.

	netdev_budget_usecs
	---------------------

	Maximum number of microseconds in one NAPI polling cycle. Polling
	will exit when either netdev_budget_usecs have elapsed during the
	poll cycle or the number of packets processed reaches netdev_budget.

	netdev_max_backlog
	------------------

	Maximum number of packets, queued on the INPUT side, when the interface
	receives packets faster than kernel can process them.

	netdev_rss_key
	--------------

	RSS (Receive Side Scaling) enabled drivers use a 40 bytes host key that is
	randomly generated.
	Some user space might need to gather its content even if drivers do not
	provide ethtool -x support yet.

	::

	myhost:~# cat /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_rss_key
	84:50:f4:00:a8:15:d1:a7:e9:7f:1d:60:35:c7:47:25:42:97:74:ca:56:bb:b6:a1:d8: ... (52 bytes total)

	File contains nul bytes if no driver ever called netdev_rss_key_fill() function.

	Note:
	/proc/sys/net/core/netdev_rss_key contains 52 bytes of key,
	but most drivers only use 40 bytes of it.

	::

	myhost:~# ethtool -x eth0
	RX flow hash indirection table for eth0 with 8 RX ring(s):
	0: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
	RSS hash key:
	84:50:f4:00:a8:15:d1:a7:e9:7f:1d:60:35:c7:47:25:42:97:74:ca:56:bb:b6:a1:d8:43:e3:c9:0c:fd:17:55:c2:3a:4d:69:ed:f1:42:89

	netdev_tstamp_prequeue
	----------------------

	If set to 0, RX packet timestamps can be sampled after RPS processing, when
	the target CPU processes packets. It might give some delay on timestamps, but
	permit to distribute the load on several cpus.

	If set to 1 (default), timestamps are sampled as soon as possible, before
	queueing.

	netdev_unregister_timeout_secs
	------------------------------

	Unregister network device timeout in seconds.
	This option controls the timeout (in seconds) used to issue a warning while
	waiting for a network device refcount to drop to 0 during device
	unregistration. A lower value may be useful during bisection to detect
	a leaked reference faster. A larger value may be useful to prevent false
	warnings on slow/loaded systems.
	Default value is 10, minimum 1, maximum 3600.

	skb_defer_max
	-------------

	Max size (in skbs) of the per-cpu list of skbs being freed
	by the cpu which allocated them. Used by TCP stack so far.

	Default: 64

	optmem_max
	----------

	Maximum ancillary buffer size allowed per socket. Ancillary data is a sequence
	of struct cmsghdr structures with appended data.

	fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net
	----------------------------

	Controls if fallback tunnels (like tunl0, gre0, gretap0, erspan0,
	sit0, ip6tnl0, ip6gre0) are automatically created. There are 3 possibilities
	(a) value = 0; respective fallback tunnels are created when module is
	loaded in every net namespaces (backward compatible behavior).
	(b) value = 1; [kcmd value: initns] respective fallback tunnels are
	created only in init net namespace and every other net namespace will
	not have them.
	(c) value = 2; [kcmd value: none] fallback tunnels are not created
	when a module is loaded in any of the net namespace. Setting value to
	"2" is pointless after boot if these modules are built-in, so there is
	a kernel command-line option that can change this default. Please refer to
	Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for additional details.

	Not creating fallback tunnels gives control to userspace to create
	whatever is needed only and avoid creating devices which are redundant.

	Default : 0 (for compatibility reasons)

	devconf_inherit_init_net
	------------------------

	Controls if a new network namespace should inherit all current
	settings under /proc/sys/net/{ipv4,ipv6}/conf/{all,default}/. By
	default, we keep the current behavior: for IPv4 we inherit all current
	settings from init_net and for IPv6 we reset all settings to default.

	If set to 1, both IPv4 and IPv6 settings are forced to inherit from
	current ones in init_net. If set to 2, both IPv4 and IPv6 settings are
	forced to reset to their default values. If set to 3, both IPv4 and IPv6
	settings are forced to inherit from current ones in the netns where this
	new netns has been created.

	Default : 0 (for compatibility reasons)

	txrehash
	--------

	Controls default hash rethink behaviour on listening socket when SO_TXREHASH
	option is set to SOCK_TXREHASH_DEFAULT (i. e. not overridden by setsockopt).

	If set to 1 (default), hash rethink is performed on listening socket.
	If set to 0, hash rethink is not performed.

	gro_normal_batch
	----------------

	Maximum number of the segments to batch up on output of GRO. When a packet
	exits GRO, either as a coalesced superframe or as an original packet which
	GRO has decided not to coalesce, it is placed on a per-NAPI list. This
	list is then passed to the stack when the number of segments reaches the
	gro_normal_batch limit.

	high_order_alloc_disable
	------------------------

	By default the allocator for page frags tries to use high order pages (order-3
	on x86). While the default behavior gives good results in most cases, some users
	might have hit a contention in page allocations/freeing. This was especially
	true on older kernels (< 5.14) when high-order pages were not stored on per-cpu
	lists. This allows to opt-in for order-0 allocation instead but is now mostly of
	historical importance.

	Default: 0

	2. /proc/sys/net/unix - Parameters for Unix domain sockets
	----------------------------------------------------------

	There is only one file in this directory.
	unix_dgram_qlen limits the max number of datagrams queued in Unix domain
	socket's buffer. It will not take effect unless PF_UNIX flag is specified.


	3. /proc/sys/net/ipv4 - IPV4 settings
	-------------------------------------
	Please see: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst and
	Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries.


	4. Appletalk
	------------

	The /proc/sys/net/appletalk directory holds the Appletalk configuration data
	when Appletalk is loaded. The configurable parameters are:

	aarp-expiry-time
	----------------

	The amount of time we keep an ARP entry before expiring it. Used to age out
	old hosts.

	aarp-resolve-time
	-----------------

	The amount of time we will spend trying to resolve an Appletalk address.

	aarp-retransmit-limit
	---------------------

	The number of times we will retransmit a query before giving up.

	aarp-tick-time
	--------------

	Controls the rate at which expires are checked.

	The directory /proc/net/appletalk holds the list of active Appletalk sockets
	on a machine.

	The fields indicate the DDP type, the local address (in network:node format)
	the remote address, the size of the transmit pending queue, the size of the
	received queue (bytes waiting for applications to read) the state and the uid
	owning the socket.

	/proc/net/atalk_iface lists all the interfaces configured for appletalk.It
	shows the name of the interface, its Appletalk address, the network range on
	that address (or network number for phase 1 networks), and the status of the
	interface.

	/proc/net/atalk_route lists each known network route. It lists the target
	(network) that the route leads to, the router (may be directly connected), the
	route flags, and the device the route is using.

	5. TIPC
	-------

	tipc_rmem
	---------

	The TIPC protocol now has a tunable for the receive memory, similar to the
	tcp_rmem - i.e. a vector of 3 INTEGERs: (min, default, max)

	::

	# cat /proc/sys/net/tipc/tipc_rmem
	4252725 34021800 68043600
	#

	The max value is set to CONN_OVERLOAD_LIMIT, and the default and min values
	are scaled (shifted) versions of that same value. Note that the min value
	is not at this point in time used in any meaningful way, but the triplet is
	preserved in order to be consistent with things like tcp_rmem.

	named_timeout
	-------------

	TIPC name table updates are distributed asynchronously in a cluster, without
	any form of transaction handling. This means that different race scenarios are
	possible. One such is that a name withdrawal sent out by one node and received
	by another node may arrive after a second, overlapping name publication already
	has been accepted from a third node, although the conflicting updates
	originally may have been issued in the correct sequential order.
	If named_timeout is nonzero, failed topology updates will be placed on a defer
	queue until another event arrives that clears the error, or until the timeout
	expires. Value is in milliseconds.