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ipv4: Documenting two sysctls for tcp PMTU probe
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Namely tcp_probe_interval to control how often to restart
a probe. And tcp_probe_threshold to control when stop the
probing in respect to the width of search range in bytes

Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fan Du authored and David S. Miller committed Mar 6, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -388,6 +388,16 @@ tcp_mtu_probing - INTEGER
1 - Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole detected
2 - Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.

tcp_probe_interval - INTEGER
Controls how often to start TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
Discovery reprobe. The default is reprobing every 10 minutes as
per RFC4821.

tcp_probe_threshold - INTEGER
Controls when TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU Discovery probing
will stop in respect to the width of search range in bytes. Default
is 8 bytes.

tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN
By default, TCP saves various connection metrics in the route cache
when the connection closes, so that connections established in the
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