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2018-06-05docs: networking: fix minor typos in various documentation filesOlivier Gayot1-1/+1
This patch fixes some typos/misspelling errors in the Documentation/networking files. Signed-off-by: Olivier Gayot <olivier.gayot@sigexec.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-07-31netfilter: conntrack: do not enable connection tracking unless neededFlorian Westphal1-11/+0
Discussion during NFWS 2017 in Faro has shown that the current conntrack behaviour is unreasonable. Even if conntrack module is loaded on behalf of a single net namespace, its turned on for all namespaces, which is expensive. Commit 481fa373476 ("netfilter: conntrack: add nf_conntrack_default_on sysctl") attempted to provide an alternative to the 'default on' behaviour by adding a sysctl to change it. However, as Eric points out, the sysctl only becomes available once the module is loaded, and then its too late. So we either have to move the sysctl to the core, or, alternatively, change conntrack to become active only once the rule set requires this. This does the latter, conntrack is only enabled when a rule needs it. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2016-12-04netfilter: conntrack: add nf_conntrack_default_on sysctlFlorian Westphal1-0/+11
This switch (default on) can be used to disable automatic registration of connection tracking functionality in newly created network namespaces. This means that when net namespace goes down (or the tracker protocol module is unloaded) we *might* have to unregister the hooks. We can either add another per-netns variable that tells if the hooks got registered by default, or, alternatively, just call the protocol _put() function and have the callee deal with a possible 'extra' put() operation that doesn't pair with a get() one. This uses the latter approach, i.e. a put() without a get has no effect. Conntrack is still enabled automatically regardless of the new sysctl setting if the new net namespace requires connection tracking, e.g. when NAT rules are created. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2016-11-24netfilter: fix nf_conntrack_helper documentationFlorian Westphal1-2/+5
Since kernel 4.7 this defaults to off. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2016-10-17netfilter: conntrack: remove obsolete sysctl (nf_conntrack_events_retry_timeout)Nicolas Dichtel1-18/+0
This entry has been removed in commit 9500507c6138. Fixes: 9500507c6138 ("netfilter: conntrack: remove timer from ecache extension") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2016-06-24netfilter: conntrack: allow increasing bucket size via sysctl tooFlorian Westphal1-1/+2
No need to restrict this to module parameter. We export a copy of the real hash size -- when user alters the value we allocate the new table, copy entries etc before we update the real size to the requested one. This is also needed because the real size is used by concurrent readers and cannot be changed without synchronizing the conntrack generation seqcnt. We only allow changing this value from the initial net namespace. Tested using http-client-benchmark vs. httpterm with concurrent while true;do echo $RANDOM > /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_buckets done Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2014-12-23netfilter: conntrack: adjust nf_conntrack_buckets default valueMarcelo Leitner1-1/+2
Manually bumping either nf_conntrack_buckets or nf_conntrack_max has become a common task as our Linux servers tend to serve more and more clients/applications, so let's adjust nf_conntrack_buckets this to a more updated value. Now for systems with more than 4GB of memory, nf_conntrack_buckets becomes 65536 instead of 16384, resulting in nf_conntrack_max=256k entries. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2013-01-21netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentationJiri Pirko1-0/+176
I grepped through the code and picked bits about nf_conntrack sysctl api and put that into one documentation file. [ I have mangled this patch including comments from several grammar improvements proposed by Neal Murphy <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu>, any new grammar error is my mistake --pablo ] Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>