From 6444f72b4b74f627c51891101e93ba2b94078b0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florent Fourcot Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:15:05 +0100 Subject: ipv6: add flowlabel_consistency sysctl With the introduction of IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT, there is no guarantee of flow label unicity. This patch introduces a new sysctl to protect the old behaviour, enable by default. Changelog of V3: * rename ip6_flowlabel_consistency to flowlabel_consistency * use net_info_ratelimited() * checkpatch cleanups Signed-off-by: Florent Fourcot Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index c97932c88ea3..5de03740cdd5 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1118,6 +1118,14 @@ bindv6only - BOOLEAN Default: FALSE (as specified in RFC3493) +flowlabel_consistency - BOOLEAN + Protect the consistency (and unicity) of flow label. + You have to disable it to use IPV6_FL_F_REFLECT flag on the + flow label manager. + TRUE: enabled + FALSE: disabled + Default: TRUE + anycast_src_echo_reply - BOOLEAN Controls the use of anycast addresses as source addresses for ICMPv6 echo reply -- cgit v1.2.3