diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 47 |
3 files changed, 50 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX index 1634c6dceca..50189bf07d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ framerelay.txt - info on using Frame Relay/Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI). generic_netlink.txt - info on Generic Netlink +ieee802154.txt + - Linux IEEE 802.15.4 implementation, API and drivers ip-sysctl.txt - /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* variables ip_dynaddr.txt diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt index a0280ad2edc..23c995e6403 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ieee802154.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ int sd = socket(PF_IEEE802154, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); ..... The address family, socket addresses etc. are defined in the -include/net/ieee802154/af_ieee802154.h header or in the special header +include/net/af_ieee802154.h header or in the special header in our userspace package (see either linux-zigbee sourceforge download page or git tree at git://linux-zigbee.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/linux-zigbee). @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ MLME - MAC Level Management ============================ Most of IEEE 802.15.4 MLME interfaces are directly mapped on netlink commands. -See the include/net/ieee802154/nl802154.h header. Our userspace tools package +See the include/net/nl802154.h header. Our userspace tools package (see above) provides CLI configuration utility for radio interfaces and simple coordinator for IEEE 802.15.4 networks as an example users of MLME protocol. @@ -54,10 +54,14 @@ Those types of devices require different approach to be hooked into Linux kernel HardMAC ======= -See the header include/net/ieee802154/netdevice.h. You have to implement Linux +See the header include/net/ieee802154_netdev.h. You have to implement Linux net_device, with .type = ARPHRD_IEEE802154. Data is exchanged with socket family -code via plain sk_buffs. The control block of sk_buffs will contain additional -info as described in the struct ieee802154_mac_cb. +code via plain sk_buffs. On skb reception skb->cb must contain additional +info as described in the struct ieee802154_mac_cb. During packet transmission +the skb->cb is used to provide additional data to device's header_ops->create +function. Be aware, that this data can be overriden later (when socket code +submits skb to qdisc), so if you need something from that cb later, you should +store info in the skb->data on your own. To hook the MLME interface you have to populate the ml_priv field of your net_device with a pointer to struct ieee802154_mlme_ops instance. All fields are @@ -69,8 +73,8 @@ We provide an example of simple HardMAC driver at drivers/ieee802154/fakehard.c SoftMAC ======= -We are going to provide intermediate layer impelementing IEEE 802.15.4 MAC +We are going to provide intermediate layer implementing IEEE 802.15.4 MAC in software. This is currently WIP. -See header include/net/ieee802154/mac802154.h and several drivers in -drivers/ieee802154/ +See header include/net/mac802154.h and several drivers in drivers/ieee802154/. + diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 8be76235fe6..fbe427a6580 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -311,9 +311,12 @@ tcp_no_metrics_save - BOOLEAN connections. tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER - How may times to retry before killing TCP connection, closed - by our side. Default value 7 corresponds to ~50sec-16min - depending on RTO. If you machine is loaded WEB server, + This value influences the timeout of a locally closed TCP connection, + when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged. + See tcp_retries2 for more details. + + The default value is 7. + If your machine is a loaded WEB server, you should think about lowering this value, such sockets may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans. @@ -327,16 +330,28 @@ tcp_retrans_collapse - BOOLEAN certain TCP stacks. tcp_retries1 - INTEGER - How many times to retry before deciding that something is wrong - and it is necessary to report this suspicion to network layer. - Minimal RFC value is 3, it is default, which corresponds - to ~3sec-8min depending on RTO. + This value influences the time, after which TCP decides, that + something is wrong due to unacknowledged RTO retransmissions, + and reports this suspicion to the network layer. + See tcp_retries2 for more details. + + RFC 1122 recommends at least 3 retransmissions, which is the + default. tcp_retries2 - INTEGER - How may times to retry before killing alive TCP connection. - RFC1122 says that the limit should be longer than 100 sec. - It is too small number. Default value 15 corresponds to ~13-30min - depending on RTO. + This value influences the timeout of an alive TCP connection, + when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged. + Given a value of N, a hypothetical TCP connection following + exponential backoff with an initial RTO of TCP_RTO_MIN would + retransmit N times before killing the connection at the (N+1)th RTO. + + The default value of 15 yields a hypothetical timeout of 924.6 + seconds and is a lower bound for the effective timeout. + TCP will effectively time out at the first RTO which exceeds the + hypothetical timeout. + + RFC 1122 recommends at least 100 seconds for the timeout, + which corresponds to a value of at least 8. tcp_rfc1337 - BOOLEAN If set, the TCP stack behaves conforming to RFC1337. If unset, @@ -1282,6 +1297,16 @@ sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max See tcp_wmem for a description. +addr_scope_policy - INTEGER + Control IPv4 address scoping - draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00 + + 0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping + 1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping + 2 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 private addresses + 3 - Follow draft but allow IPv4 link local addresses + + Default: 1 + /proc/sys/net/core/* dev_weight - INTEGER |