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| author | Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> | 2019-08-05 15:30:02 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2019-08-08 18:06:53 -0700 |
| commit | 7e7c076e123ae8c4faa1966fc0da64f6e24eb57e (patch) | |
| tree | e17895609a24952db336770e3b10824ff8cf36af /Documentation | |
| parent | 3a0233ddec554b886298de2428edb5c50a20e694 (diff) | |
docs: admin-guide: remove references to IPX and token-ring
Both IPX and TR have not been supported for a while now.
Remove them from the /proc/sys/net documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst | 29 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst index a7d44e71019d..287b98708a40 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst @@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ Table : Subdirectories in /proc/sys/net 802 E802 protocol ax25 AX25 ethernet Ethernet protocol rose X.25 PLP layer ipv4 IP version 4 x25 X.25 protocol - ipx IPX token-ring IBM token ring bridge Bridging decnet DEC net ipv6 IP version 6 tipc TIPC ========= =================== = ========== ================== @@ -401,33 +400,7 @@ interface. (network) that the route leads to, the router (may be directly connected), the route flags, and the device the route is using. - -5. IPX ------- - -The IPX protocol has no tunable values in proc/sys/net. - -The IPX protocol does, however, provide proc/net/ipx. This lists each IPX -socket giving the local and remote addresses in Novell format (that is -network:node:port). In accordance with the strange Novell tradition, -everything but the port is in hex. Not_Connected is displayed for sockets that -are not tied to a specific remote address. The Tx and Rx queue sizes indicate -the number of bytes pending for transmission and reception. The state -indicates the state the socket is in and the uid is the owning uid of the -socket. - -The /proc/net/ipx_interface file lists all IPX interfaces. For each interface -it gives the network number, the node number, and indicates if the network is -the primary network. It also indicates which device it is bound to (or -Internal for internal networks) and the Frame Type if appropriate. Linux -supports 802.3, 802.2, 802.2 SNAP and DIX (Blue Book) ethernet framing for -IPX. - -The /proc/net/ipx_route table holds a list of IPX routes. For each route it -gives the destination network, the router node (or Directly) and the network -address of the router (or Connected) for internal networks. - -6. TIPC +5. TIPC ------- tipc_rmem |