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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 68 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/dccp.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt | 22 |
5 files changed, 81 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 index 4f2a40f1dbc6..80c728522c4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 +++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Where the supported parameter are: driver. If disabled, the driver will not attempt to scan for and associate to a network until it has been configured with one or more properties for the target network, for example configuring - the network SSID. Default is 1 (auto-associate) + the network SSID. Default is 0 (do not auto-associate) Example: % modprobe ipw2200 associate=0 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 688dfe1e6b70..5ede7473b425 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -194,6 +194,48 @@ or, for backwards compatibility, the option value. E.g., The parameters are as follows: +ad_select + + Specifies the 802.3ad aggregation selection logic to use. The + possible values and their effects are: + + stable or 0 + + The active aggregator is chosen by largest aggregate + bandwidth. + + Reselection of the active aggregator occurs only when all + slaves of the active aggregator are down or the active + aggregator has no slaves. + + This is the default value. + + bandwidth or 1 + + The active aggregator is chosen by largest aggregate + bandwidth. Reselection occurs if: + + - A slave is added to or removed from the bond + + - Any slave's link state changes + + - Any slave's 802.3ad association state changes + + - The bond's adminstrative state changes to up + + count or 2 + + The active aggregator is chosen by the largest number of + ports (slaves). Reselection occurs as described under the + "bandwidth" setting, above. + + The bandwidth and count selection policies permit failover of + 802.3ad aggregations when partial failure of the active aggregator + occurs. This keeps the aggregator with the highest availability + (either in bandwidth or in number of ports) active at all times. + + This option was added in bonding version 3.4.0. + arp_interval Specifies the ARP link monitoring frequency in milliseconds. @@ -551,6 +593,16 @@ num_grat_arp affects only the active-backup mode. This option was added for bonding version 3.3.0. +num_unsol_na + + Specifies the number of unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements + to be issued after a failover event. One unsolicited NA is issued + immediately after the failover. + + The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option + affects only the active-backup mode. This option was added for + bonding version 3.4.0. + primary A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the @@ -922,17 +974,19 @@ USERCTL=no NETMASK, NETWORK and BROADCAST) to match your network configuration. For later versions of initscripts, such as that found with Fedora -7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (or later), it is possible, and, -indeed, preferable, to specify the bonding options in the ifcfg-bond0 +7 (or later) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (or later), it is possible, +and, indeed, preferable, to specify the bonding options in the ifcfg-bond0 file, e.g. a line of the format: -BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup arp_interval=60 arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.254" +BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup arp_interval=60 arp_ip_target=192.168.1.254" will configure the bond with the specified options. The options specified in BONDING_OPTS are identical to the bonding module parameters -except for the arp_ip_target field. Each target should be included as a -separate option and should be preceded by a '+' to indicate it should be -added to the list of queried targets, e.g., +except for the arp_ip_target field when using versions of initscripts older +than and 8.57 (Fedora 8) and 8.45.19 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2). When +using older versions each target should be included as a separate option and +should be preceded by a '+' to indicate it should be added to the list of +queried targets, e.g., arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.1 arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.2 @@ -940,7 +994,7 @@ added to the list of queried targets, e.g., options via BONDING_OPTS, it is not necessary to edit /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf. - For older versions of initscripts that do not support + For even older versions of initscripts that do not support BONDING_OPTS, it is necessary to edit /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/modprobe.conf, depending upon your distro) to load the bonding module with your desired options when the bond0 interface is brought up. The diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt index 39131a3c78f8..43df4487379b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt @@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ can be set before calling bind(). DCCP_SOCKOPT_GET_CUR_MPS is read-only and retrieves the current maximum packet size (application payload size) in bytes, see RFC 4340, section 14. +DCCP_SOCKOPT_AVAILABLE_CCIDS is also read-only and returns the list of CCIDs +supported by the endpoint (see include/linux/dccp.h for symbolic constants). +The caller needs to provide a sufficiently large (> 2) array of type uint8_t. + DCCP_SOCKOPT_SERVER_TIMEWAIT enables the server (listening socket) to hold timewait state when closing the connection (RFC 4340, 8.3). The usual case is that the closing server sends a CloseReq, whereupon the client holds timewait @@ -121,9 +125,6 @@ send_ndp = 1 send_ackvec = 1 Whether or not to send Ack Vector options (sec. 11.5). -ack_ratio = 2 - The default Ack Ratio (sec. 11.3) to use. - tx_ccid = 2 Default CCID for the sender-receiver half-connection. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index d84932650fd3..c7712787933c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ min_adv_mss - INTEGER The advertised MSS depends on the first hop route MTU, but will never be lower than this setting. +rt_cache_rebuild_count - INTEGER + The per net-namespace route cache emergency rebuild threshold. + Any net-namespace having its route cache rebuilt due to + a hash bucket chain being too long more than this many times + will have its route caching disabled + IP Fragmentation: ipfrag_high_thresh - INTEGER diff --git a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt index a96989a8ff35..dcf31648414a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt @@ -131,11 +131,13 @@ are expected to do this during initialization. r = zd_reg2alpha2(mac->regdomain, alpha2); if (!r) - regulatory_hint(hw->wiphy, alpha2, NULL); + regulatory_hint(hw->wiphy, alpha2); Example code - drivers providing a built in regulatory domain: -------------------------------------------------------------- +[NOTE: This API is not currently available, it can be added when required] + If you have regulatory information you can obtain from your driver and you *need* to use this we let you build a regulatory domain structure and pass it to the wireless core. To do this you should @@ -167,7 +169,6 @@ struct ieee80211_regdomain mydriver_jp_regdom = { Then in some part of your code after your wiphy has been registered: - int r; struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd; int size_of_regd; int num_rules = mydriver_jp_regdom.n_reg_rules; @@ -178,17 +179,12 @@ Then in some part of your code after your wiphy has been registered: rd = kzalloc(size_of_regd, GFP_KERNEL); if (!rd) - return -ENOMEM; + return -ENOMEM; memcpy(rd, &mydriver_jp_regdom, sizeof(struct ieee80211_regdomain)); - for (i=0; i < num_rules; i++) { - memcpy(&rd->reg_rules[i], &mydriver_jp_regdom.reg_rules[i], - sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule)); - } - r = regulatory_hint(hw->wiphy, NULL, rd); - if (r) { - kfree(rd); - return r; - } - + for (i=0; i < num_rules; i++) + memcpy(&rd->reg_rules[i], + &mydriver_jp_regdom.reg_rules[i], + sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule)); + regulatory_struct_hint(rd); |