CAN has no addressing scheme. It is currently impossible for userspace
to tell is a received CAN frame comes from another process on the local
host, or from a remote CAN device.
This patch add support for userspace applications to distinguish between
'own', 'local' and 'remote' CAN traffic. The distinction is made by returning
flags in msg->msg_flags in the call to recvmsg().
The added documentation explains the introduced flags.
Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Updates to Phonet doc for Pipe controller 'connect' socket
implementation and changes related to socket options.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumar.sanghvi@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The current code works like this:
int garbage, status;
socklen_t len = sizeof(status);
/* enable pipe */
setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &garbage, sizeof(garbage));
/* disable pipe */
setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_DISABLE, &garbage, sizeof(garbage));
/* get status */
getsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_INQ, &status, &len);
...which does not follow the usual socket option pattern. This patch
merges all three "options" into a single gettable&settable option,
before Linux 2.6.37 gets out:
int status;
socklen_t len = sizeof(status);
/* enable pipe */
status = 1;
setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &status, sizeof(status));
/* disable pipe */
status = 0;
setsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &status, sizeof(status));
/* get status */
getsockopt(fd, SOL_PNPIPE, PNPIPE_ENABLE, &status, &len);
This also fixes the error code from EFAULT to ENOTCONN.
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Cc: Kumar Sanghvi <kumar.sanghvi@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allow sysadmins to configure the number of multicast
membership report sent on a link failure event.
Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adds documentation for the e1000e networking driver.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Updated the e1000 networking driver documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Update the documentation for the ixgbevf (ixgbe virtual
function driver).
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Updates the Phonet document with description related to Pipe controller
implementation
Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumar.sanghvi@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation for recent changes to the tunables accept_ra and
forwarding.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This makes RTAX_RTO_MIN also available to CCID-3, replacing the compile-time
RTO lower bound with a per-route tunable value.
The original Kconfig option solved the problem that a very low RTT (in the
order of HZ) can trigger too frequent and unnecessary reductions of the
sending rate.
This tunable does not affect the initial RTO value of 2 seconds specified in
RFC 5348, section 4.2 and Appendix B. But like the hardcoded Kconfig value,
it allows to adapt to network conditions.
The same effect as the original Kconfig option of 100ms is now achieved by
> ip route replace to unicast 192.168.0.0/24 rto_min 100j dev eth0
(assuming HZ=1000).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Using a fixed RTO_MIN of 0.2 seconds was found to cause problems for CCID-2
over 802.11g: at least once per session there was a spurious timeout. It
helped to then increase the the value of RTO_MIN over this link.
Since the problem is the same as in TCP, this patch makes the solution from
commit "05bb1fad1cde025a864a90cfeb98dcbefe78a44a"
"[TCP]: Allow minimum RTO to be configurable via routing metrics."
available to DCCP.
This avoids reinventing the wheel, so that e.g. the following works in the
expected way now also for CCID-2:
> ip route change 10.0.0.2 rto_min 800 dev ath0
Luckily this useful rto_min function was recently moved to net/tcp.h,
which simplifies sharing code originating from TCP.
Documentation also updated (plus minor whitespace fixes).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch removes the abstraction introduced by the union skb_shared_tx in
the shared skb data.
The access of the different union elements at several places led to some
confusion about accessing the shared tx_flags e.g. in skb_orphan_try().
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128084897415886&w=2
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 1d794e3b35 ("Staging: wavelan: delete the driver") removed the
source, so remove the documentation as well.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (59 commits)
igbvf.txt: Add igbvf Documentation
igb.txt: Add igb documentation
e100/e1000*/igb*/ixgb*: Add missing read memory barrier
ixgbe: fix build error with FCOE_CONFIG without DCB_CONFIG
netxen: protect tx timeout recovery by rtnl lock
isdn: gigaset: use after free
isdn: gigaset: add missing unlock
solos-pci: Fix race condition in tasklet RX handling
pkt_sched: Fix sch_sfq vs tcf_bind_filter oops
net: disable preemption before call smp_processor_id()
tcp: no md5sig option size check bug
iwlwifi: fix locking assertions
iwlwifi: fix TX tracer
isdn: fix information leak
net: Fix napi_gro_frags vs netpoll path
usbnet: remove noisy and hardly useful printk
rtl8180: avoid potential NULL deref in rtl8180_beacon_work
ath9k: Remove myself from the MAINTAINERS list
libertas: scan before assocation if no BSSID was given
libertas: fix association with some APs by using extended rates
...
Adds documentation for the igbvf (igb virtual function driver).
v2:
- Removed trailing white space
- Removed Ethtool version info
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add documentation for the igb networking driver.
v2:
- Removed trailing white space
- Removed Ethtool version info
- Removed LRO kernel version info
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fixes for the DNS query module, including:
(1) Use 'negative' instead of '-ve' in the documentation.
(2) Mark the kdoc comment with '/**' on dns_query().
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Separate out the DNS resolver key type from the CIFS filesystem into its own
module so that it can be made available for general use, including the AFS
filesystem module.
This facility makes it possible for the kernel to upcall to userspace to have
it issue DNS requests, package up the replies and present them to the kernel
in a useful form. The kernel is then able to cache the DNS replies as keys
can be retained in keyrings.
Resolver keys are of type "dns_resolver" and have a case-insensitive
description that is of the form "[<type>:]<domain_name>". The optional <type>
indicates the particular DNS lookup and packaging that's required. The
<domain_name> is the query to be made.
If <type> isn't given, a basic hostname to IP address lookup is made, and the
result is stored in the key in the form of a printable string consisting of a
comma-separated list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
This key type is supported by userspace helpers driven from /sbin/request-key
and configured through /etc/request-key.conf. The cifs.upcall utility is
invoked for UNC path server name to IP address resolution.
The CIFS functionality is encapsulated by the dns_resolve_unc_to_ip() function,
which is used to resolve a UNC path to an IP address for CIFS filesystem. This
part remains in the CIFS module for now.
See the added Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.txt for more information.
Signed-off-by: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This patch introduces the CAIF SPI Protocol Driver for
CAIF Link Layer.
This driver implements a platform driver to accommodate for a
platform specific SPI device. A general platform driver is not
possible as there are no SPI Slave side Kernel API defined.
A sample CAIF SPI Platform device can be found in
.../Documentation/networking/caif/spi_porting.txt
Signed-off-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21367
Enable LED by default and update the MODULE_PARM_DESC. The original
reason for defaulting to disabled was documented in 2005 and noted, "The
LED code has been reported to hang some systems when running ifconfig
and is therefore disabled by default." This no longer appears
applicable and users have been requesting this be enabled for several
years.
Signed-off-by: TJ <ubuntu@tjworld.net>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch increases the granularity of the rate generated by pktgen.
The previous version of pktgen uses micro seconds (udelay) resolution when it
was delayed causing gaps in the rates. It is changed to nanosecond (ndelay).
Now any rate is possible.
Also it allows to set, the desired rate in Mb/s or packets per second.
The documentation has been updated.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
v2: changed bonding module version, modified to apply on top of changes
from previous patch in series, and updated documentation to elaborate on
multiqueue awareness that now exists in bonding driver.
This patch give the user the ability to control the output slave for
round-robin and active-backup bonding. Similar functionality was
discussed in the past, but Jay Vosburgh indicated he would rather see a
feature like this added to existing modes rather than creating a
completely new mode. Jay's thoughts as well as Neil's input surrounding
some of the issues with the first implementation pushed us toward a
design that relied on the queue_mapping rather than skb marks.
Round-robin and active-backup modes were chosen as the first users of
this slave selection as they seemed like the most logical choices when
considering a multi-switch environment.
Round-robin mode works without any modification, but active-backup does
require inclusion of the first patch in this series and setting
the 'all_slaves_active' flag. This will allow reception of unicast traffic on
any of the backup interfaces.
This was tested with IPv4-based filters as well as VLAN-based filters
with good results.
More information as well as a configuration example is available in the
patch to Documentation/networking/bonding.txt.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds a setting, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, to specify the packet
timestamp source that is exported to capture utilities like tcpdump by
packet_mmap.
PACKET_TIMESTAMP accepts the same integer bit field as
SO_TIMESTAMPING. However, only the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE and
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE values are currently recognized by
PACKET_TIMESTAMP. SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE takes precedence over
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE if both bits are set.
If PACKET_TIMESTAMP is not set, a software timestamp generated inside
the networking stack is used (the behavior before this setting was
added).
Signed-off-by: Scott McMillan <scott.a.mcmillan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This option causes a gratuitous ARP request, not a reply as the documentation
currently suggests.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1674 commits)
qlcnic: adding co maintainer
ixgbe: add support for active DA cables
ixgbe: dcb, do not tag tc_prio_control frames
ixgbe: fix ixgbe_tx_is_paused logic
ixgbe: always enable vlan strip/insert when DCB is enabled
ixgbe: remove some redundant code in setting FCoE FIP filter
ixgbe: fix wrong offset to fc_frame_header in ixgbe_fcoe_ddp
ixgbe: fix header len when unsplit packet overflows to data buffer
ipv6: Never schedule DAD timer on dead address
ipv6: Use POSTDAD state
ipv6: Use state_lock to protect ifa state
ipv6: Replace inet6_ifaddr->dead with state
cxgb4: notify upper drivers if the device is already up when they load
cxgb4: keep interrupts available when the ports are brought down
cxgb4: fix initial addition of MAC address
cnic: Return SPQ credit to bnx2x after ring setup and shutdown.
cnic: Convert cnic_local_flags to atomic ops.
can: Fix SJA1000 command register writes on SMP systems
bridge: fix build for CONFIG_SYSFS disabled
ARCNET: Limit com20020 PCI ID matches for SOHARD cards
...
Fix up various conflicts with pcmcia tree drivers/net/
{pcmcia/3c589_cs.c, wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.c and
wireless/orinoco/spectrum_cs.c} and feature removal
(Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt).
Also fix a non-content conflict due to pm_qos_requirement getting
renamed in the PM tree (now pm_qos_request) in net/mac80211/scan.c
(Dropped the infiniband part, because Tetsuo modified the related code,
I will send a separate patch for it once this is accepted.)
This patch introduces /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_reserved_ports which
allows users to reserve ports for third-party applications.
The reserved ports will not be used by automatic port assignments
(e.g. when calling connect() or bind() with port number 0). Explicit
port allocation behavior is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant.
Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The current documentation for hardware time stamping does not
correctly specify the available kernel functions since the
implementation was changed later on.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Loschmidt <Patrick.Loschmidt@oeaw.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds documentation about the L2TPv3 functionality.
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt for the
stmmac network driver.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation of the CAIF Protocol.
Signed-off-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix Makefiles so that Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
will build when using the CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC kconfig option.
(timestamping.c does not build currently with its simple Makefile.)
Also fix printf format warnings.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (220 commits)
USB: backlight, appledisplay: fix incomplete registration failure handling
USB: pl2303: remove unnecessary reset of usb_device in urbs
USB: ftdi_sio: remove obsolete check in unthrottle
USB: ftdi_sio: remove unused tx_bytes counter
USB: qcaux: driver for auxiliary serial ports on Qualcomm devices
USB: pl2303: initial TIOCGSERIAL support
USB: option: add Longcheer/Longsung vendor ID
USB: fix I2C API usage in ohci-pnx4008.
USB: usbmon: mask seconds properly in text API
USB: sisusbvga: no unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC
USB: storage: onetouch: unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC
USB: serial: ftdi: add CONTEC vendor and product id
USB: remove references to port->port.count from the serial drivers
USB: tty: Prune uses of tty_request_room in the USB layer
USB: tty: Add a function to insert a string of characters with the same flag
USB: don't read past config->interface[] if usb_control_msg() fails in usb_reset_configuration()
USB: tty: kill request_room for USB ACM class
USB: tty: sort out the request_room handling for whiteheat
USB: storage: fix misplaced parenthesis
USB: vstusb.c: removal of driver for Vernier Software & Technology, Inc., devices and spectrometers
...
This has never worked properly because wsize passed to
cxacru_cm() is incorrectly set to the number of values
instead of the data bytes. The maximum number of values
that can be set at once is 7 which means the device will
not get enough data to work with and none of the
configuration values will be used.
At least one existing cxacru-cf.bin file contains invalid
data which will prevent the modem from syncing properly.
Fixing it is likely to break existing systems, and the
new sysfs interface for setting configuration parameters
can provide the same functionality. A script is provided
to convert from the original format.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The modem can be configured using CM_REQUEST_CARD_DATA_SET,
although CM_REQUEST_CARD_DATA_GET does not return any data.
Tested by setting the modulation (0x0a) option.
There is a list of parameters in the following archive,
but the meaning of many of them is not well documented:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=301825
This source also indicates that the highest parameter set
is 0x4a but this varies by model so an arbitrary limit of
0x7f has been used (the index is a 32-bit integer).
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
When there is no connection, return an empty string
instead of "0" for the connection modulation.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
This patch enables fast retransmissions after one dupACK for
TCP if the stream is identified as thin. This will reduce
latencies for thin streams that are not able to trigger fast
retransmissions due to high packet interarrival time. This
mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol
and the stream is identified as thin.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch will make TCP use only linear timeouts if the
stream is thin. This will help to avoid the very high latencies
that thin stream suffer because of exponential backoff. This
mechanism is only active if enabled by iocontrol or syscontrol
and the stream is identified as thin. A maximum of 6 linear
timeouts is tried before exponential backoff is resumed.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Inline function to dynamically detect thin streams based on
the number of packets in flight. Used to dynamically trigger
thin-stream mechanisms if enabled by ioctl or sysctl.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <apetlund@simula.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This fixes a problem in the DCCP getsockopt() API: currently there is no way
for a user to a priori know the number of built-in CCIDs, other than trying
DCCP_SOCKOPT_AVAILABLE_CCIDS in a loop, incrementing the option length until
EINVAL is no longer returned.
This patch truncates the array to the user-provided length. No copy is made
when the length is <= 0.
Due to the length restriction in do_dccp_getsockopt() to sizeof(int), the
minimum array length remains 4, which is a reasonable default (only 3
CCIDs, CCID-2..4, are currently defined).
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Early on this was an experimental facility that few
people other than Alexey Kuznetsov played with.
Now it's a pretty fundamental thing and as people add
more features to AF_PACKET sockets this config options
creates ifdef spaghetti.
So kill it off.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If the per device ARP_ACCEPT option is enable, currently we only allow
creating new ARP cache entries for response type gratuitous ARP.
Allowing gratuitous ARP to create new ARP entries (not only to update
existing ones) is useful when we want to avoid unnecessary delays for
the first packet of a stream.
This patch allows request type gratuitous ARP to create new ARP cache
entries as well. This is useful when we want to populate the ARP cache
entries for a large number of hosts on the same LAN.
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
3c509 was changed to support ethtool in 2002, making the 'xcvr' module
parameter obsolete in most cases. More recently 3c509 was converted
to the modern driver model and this parameter was removed. Fix the
documentation to refer to ethtool rather than the module parameter.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Modifications for the Kconfig and network device Makefile to add the ixgbevf
driver module to the kernel plus basic driver documentation.
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is to be used together with switch technologies, like RFC3069,
that where the individual ports are not allowed to communicate with
each other, but they are allowed to talk to the upstream router. As
described in RFC 3069, it is possible to allow these hosts to
communicate through the upstream router by proxy_arp'ing.
This patch basically allow proxy arp replies back to the same
interface (from which the ARP request/solicitation was received).
Tunable per device via proc "proxy_arp_pvlan":
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/proxy_arp_pvlan
This switch technology is known by different vendor names:
- In RFC 3069 it is called VLAN Aggregation.
- Cisco and Allied Telesyn call it Private VLAN.
- Hewlett-Packard call it Source-Port filtering or port-isolation.
- Ericsson call it MAC-Forced Forwarding (RFC Draft).
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch provides infrastructure for machine translation of the
regulatory rules database used by CRDA into a C data structure.
It includes code for searching that database as an alternative
to dynamic regulatory rules updates via CRDA. Most people should
use CRDA instead of this infrastructure, but it provides a better
alternative than the WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY infrastructure (which
can now be removed).
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
commit 8ec1e0ebe26087bfc5c0394ada5feb5758014fc8
Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Thu Dec 3 12:16:35 2009 +0100
ipv4: add sysctl to accept packets with local source addresses
Change fib_validate_source() to accept packets with a local source address when
the "accept_local" sysctl is set for the incoming inet device. Combined with the
previous patches, this allows to communicate between multiple local interfaces
over the wire.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Define sysctl (tcp_cookie_size) to turn on and off the cookie option
default globally, instead of a compiled configuration option.
Define per socket option (TCP_COOKIE_TRANSACTIONS) for setting constant
data values, retrieving variable cookie values, and other facilities.
Move inline tcp_clear_options() unchanged from net/tcp.h to linux/tcp.h,
near its corresponding struct tcp_options_received (prior to changes).
This is a straightforward re-implementation of an earlier (year-old)
patch that no longer applies cleanly, with permission of the original
author (Adam Langley):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/102586
These functions will also be used in subsequent patches that implement
additional features.
Requires:
net: TCP_MSS_DEFAULT, TCP_MSS_DESIRED
Signed-off-by: William.Allen.Simpson@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The commit 27fed4175a (ip: fix logic of
reverse path filter sysctl) has changed the logic of rp_filter. The
document about rp_filter is out of date. Now, setting
conf/all/rp_filte with 0 can also enable source validation.
Update the document according to the commit.
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
On Friday 02 October 2009 20:53:51 you wrote:
> This is good although I would have shortened the name.
Ah, I knew I forgot something :) Here is v4.
tavi
>From 24d96d825b9fa832b22878cc6c990d5711968734 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:51:15 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: new sysctl for sending TLLAO with unicast NAs
Neighbor advertisements responding to unicast neighbor solicitations
did not include the target link-layer address option. This patch adds
a new sysctl option (disabled by default) which controls whether this
option should be sent even with unicast NAs.
The need for this arose because certain routers expect the TLLAO in
some situations even as a response to unicast NS packets.
Moreover, RFC 2461 recommends sending this to avoid a race condition
(section 4.4, Target link-layer address)
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In some cases there is not desirable to switch back to primary interface when
it's link recovers and rather stay with currently active one. We need to avoid
packetloss as much as we can in some cases. This is solved by introducing
primary_reselect option. Note that enslaved primary slave is set as current
active no matter what.
Patch modified by Jay Vosburgh as follows: fixed bug in action
after change of option setting via sysfs, revised the documentation
update, and bumped the bonding version number.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
It is not currently possible to instruct pktgen to use one selected tx queue.
When Robert added multiqueue support in commit 45b270f8, he added
an interval (queue_map_min, queue_map_max), and his code doesnt take
into account the case of min = max, to select one tx queue exactly.
I suspect a high performance setup on a eight txqueue device wants
to use exactly eight cpus, and assign one tx queue to each sender.
This patchs makes pktgen select the right tx queue, not the first one.
Also updates Documentation to reflect Robert changes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Which is why I have always preferred sizeof(struct foo) over
sizeof(var).
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch introduces a new sysctl option to make IPv4 Address Scoping
configurable <draft-stewart-tsvwg-sctp-ipv4-00.txt>.
In networking environments where DNAT rules in iptables prerouting
chains convert destination IP's to link-local/private IP addresses,
SCTP connections fail to establish as the INIT chunk is dropped by the
kernel due to address scope match failure.
For example to support overlapping IP addresses (same IP address with
different vlan id) a Layer-5 application listens on link local IP's,
and there is a DNAT rule that maps the destination IP to a link local
IP. Such applications never get the SCTP INIT if the address-scoping
draft is strictly followed.
This sysctl configuration allows SCTP to function in such
unconventional networking environments.
Sysctl options:
0 - Disable IPv4 address scoping draft altogether
1 - Enable IPv4 address scoping (default, current behavior)
2 - Enable address scoping but allow IPv4 private addresses in init/init-ack
3 - Enable address scoping but allow IPv4 link local address in init/init-ack
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Dutta <bhaskar.dutta@globallogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
This patch updates the sysctl documentation concerning the interpretation
of tcp_retries{1,2} and tcp_orphan_retries.
Signed-off-by: Damian Lukowski <damian@tvk.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The kernel has used a stale email address of Andreas for a few years.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit b00055aacd " [NET] core: add
RFC2863 operstate" defined new interface flag values. Its
documentation specified that these flags could be accessed from user
space via SIOCGIFFLAGS. However, this does not work because the new
flags do not fit in that ioctl's argument width.
Change the documentation to match the code's behavior. Also change
the source to explicitly show the truncation. This _should_ have no
effect on executable code, and did not with gcc 4.2.4 generating x86
code.
A new ioctl could be defined to return all interface flags to user
space. However, since this has been broken for three years with no
one complaining, there doesn't seem much need. They are still
accessible via netlink.
Reported-by: "Fredrik Arnerup" <fredrik.arnerup@edgeware.tv>
Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add MAINTAINERS entry and a small text describing our stack interfaces,
how to hook the drivers, etc.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add 'autoconf' and 'disable_ipv6' parameters to the IPv6 module.
The first controls if IPv6 addresses are autoconfigured from
prefixes received in Router Advertisements. The IPv6 loopback
(::1) and link-local addresses are still configured.
The second controls if IPv6 addresses are desired at all. No
IPv6 addresses will be added to any interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
New packet socket feature that makes packet socket more efficient for
transmission.
- It reduces number of system call through a PACKET_TX_RING mechanism,
based on PACKET_RX_RING (Circular buffer allocated in kernel space
which is mmapped from user space).
- It minimizes CPU copy using fragmented SKB (almost zero copy).
Signed-off-by: Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@gnu-log.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch documents the CAN netowrk device drivers interface, removes
obsolete documentation and adds some useful links to CAN resources.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This should be very safe compared with full enabled, so I see
no reason why it shouldn't be done right away. As ECN can only
be negotiated if the SYN sending party is also supporting it,
somebody in the loop probably knows what he/she is doing. If
SYN does not ask for ECN, the server side SYN-ACK is identical
to what it is without ECN. Thus it's quite safe.
The chosen value is safe w.r.t to existing configs which
choose to currently set manually either 0 or 1 but
silently upgrades those who have not explicitly requested
ECN off.
Whether to just enable both sides comes up time to time but
unless that gets done now we can at least make the servers
aware of ECN already. As there are some known problems to occur
if ECN is enabled, it's currently questionable whether there's
any real gain from enabling clients as servers mostly won't
support it anyway (so we'd hit just the negative sides). After
enabling the servers and getting that deployed, the client end
enable really has some potential gain too.
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We don't currently support antenna or rate setting, so remove
that. Also update the link -- the current one is dead and the
wiki can be kept updated easier.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix a zero address hole bug in the bonding arp_ip_target list
that was causing the bond to ignore ARP replies (bugz 13006).
Instead of just setting the array entry to zero, we now
copy any additional entries down one slot, putting the
zero entry at the end. With this change we can now have
all the loops that walk the array stop when they hit a zero
since there will be no addresses after it.
Changes are based in part on code fragment provided in kernel:
bugzilla 13006:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13006
by Steve Howard <steve@astutenetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- vxge driver help text file.
- No change from previous submission.
- Changes in previous submissions -
Removed the performance tuning section with instructions to disable
time stamps and change sysctl settings - Reported by Dave Miller
General clean up.
- Removed tx/rx_pause, exec_mode, tx_steering_type, rx_steering_type, gro,
intr_type, rx & tx max_indicate_pkts and exec_mode loadable parameters. The
driver default settings work well in most if not all cases. Another patch
to configure these parameters with ethtool will be released in the future -
Reported by Stephen Hemminger.
- Incorporated following fixes based on comments from Ben Hutchings
Removed references to earlier kernel versions.
Removed sections that are similar for all drivers -
Load/Unload
Identifying the adapter/interface
Boot time configuration
Removed loadable parameter -
NAPI - Napi is always enabled.
rx_steering_type & ring_blocks - The driver default settings
work well in most if not all cases. Another patch to configure
these parameters with ethtool will be released in the future.
Removed ethtool support section - No need to duplicate ethtool
docs here.
Removed Known Issue on SUSE 9 - Doesn't apply when using a
current kernel.
Removed Common Problems section - These don't apply to in-tree modules.
Removed Available Downloads section - Not sure this belongs in-tree.
Removed Copyright information - This notice doesn't belong in
the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Sivakumar Subramani <sivakumar.subramani@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Rastapur Santosh <santosh.rastapur@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix the behavior of allowing both sysctl and addrconf_dad_failure()
to set the disable_ipv6 parameter without any bad side-effects.
If DAD fails and accept_dad > 1, we will still set disable_ipv6=1,
but then instead of allowing an RA to add an address then
immediately fail DAD, we simply don't allow the address to be
added in the first place. This also lets the user set this flag
and disable all IPv6 addresses on the interface, or on the entire
system.
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation for the ixgbe driver in the kernel docs area is missing.
This adds that documentation.
Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add "disable" module parameter support to ipv6.ko by specifying
"disable=1" on module load. We just do the minimum of initializing
inetsw6[] so calls from other modules to inet6_register_protosw()
won't OOPs, then bail out. No IPv6 addresses or sockets can be
created as a result, and a reboot is required to enable IPv6.
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This file documents the specifics of the RDS sockets API,
as well as covering some of the details of its internal
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix up whitespaces while going though ip-sysctl.txt anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Extend existing reverse path filter option to allow strict or loose
filtering. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_path_filtering).
For compatibility with existing usage, the value 1 is chosen for strict mode
and 2 for loose mode.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Instructions for time stamping outgoing packets are take from the
socket layer and later copied into the new skb.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
User space can request hardware and/or software time stamping.
Reporting of the result(s) via a new control message is enabled
separately for each field in the message because some of the
fields may require additional computation and thus cause overhead.
User space can tell the different kinds of time stamps apart
and choose what suits its needs.
When a TX timestamp operation is requested, the TX skb will be cloned
and the clone will be time stamped (in hardware or software) and added
to the socket error queue of the skb, if the skb has a socket
associated with it.
The actual TX timestamp will reach userspace as a RX timestamp on the
cloned packet. If timestamping is requested and no timestamping is
done in the device driver (potentially this may use hardware
timestamping), it will be done in software after the device's
start_hard_xmit routine.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
