Commit e79dc484 authored Feb 22, 2010 by Brian Haley Committed by David S. Miller Feb 23, 2010

IPv6: better document max_addresses parameter



Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >From ip-sysctl.txt file in kernel documentation I can see following description
>> for max_addresses:
>> max_addresses - INTEGER
>>         Number of maximum addresses per interface.  0 disables limitation.
>>         It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would
>>         be too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of
>>         autoconfigured addresses.
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>> If this parameter applies only for auto-configured IP addressed, please state
>> it more clearly in docs or rename the parameter to show that it refers to
>> auto-configuration.

It did mention autoconfigured in the text, but the below makes it more obvious.

More clearly document IPv6 max_addresses parameter.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent f5ca8502

Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

+4 −4

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		@@ -1074,10 +1074,10 @@ regen_max_retry - INTEGER
		Default: 5

		max_addresses - INTEGER
		Number of maximum addresses per interface. 0 disables limitation.
		It is recommended not set too large value (or 0) because it would
		be too easy way to crash kernel to allow to create too much of
		autoconfigured addresses.
		Maximum number of autoconfigured addresses per interface. Setting
		to zero disables the limitation. It is not recommended to set this
		value too large (or to zero) because it would be an easy way to
		crash the kernel by allowing too many addresses to be created.
		Default: 16

		disable_ipv6 - BOOLEAN