[PATCH 1/1] update ip-sysctl.txt documentation
From: Ani Sinha <hidden>
Date: 2015-01-06 23:36:28
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Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Update documentation to reflect the fact that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size is no longer used for ipv4. Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <redacted> --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 9bffdfc..2a28261 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt@@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN Default: 0 route/max_size - INTEGER - Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase - this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes. + Post linux kernel 3.6, this is deprecated for ipv4 as route cache is no + longer used. For ipv6, this is used to limit the maximum number of ipv6 + routes allowed in the kernel. Increase this when using large numbers of + interfaces and/or routes. neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER Minimum number of entries to keep. Garbage collector will not
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