[PATCH 1/1] update ip-sysctl.txt documentation

From: Ani Sinha
Date: Tue Jan 06 2015 - 15:04:29 EST


Update documentation to reflect the fact that
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/max_size is no longer used for
ipv4.

Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 9bffdfc..c8a7e37 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -64,8 +64,10 @@ fwmark_reflect - BOOLEAN
Default: 0

route/max_size - INTEGER
- Maximum number of routes allowed in the kernel. Increase
- this when using large numbers of interfaces and/or routes.
+ Post linux kernel 3.6, this is depricated for ipv4 as route cache is no
+ longer used. For ipv6, this is used to limit the maximum number of ipv6
+ routes allowed in the kernel. Increase this when using large numbers of
+ interfaces and/or routes.

neigh/default/gc_thresh1 - INTEGER
Minimum number of entries to keep. Garbage collector will not
--
1.7.4.4

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