Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:30:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:30:04 -0400 Received: from eventhorizon.antefacto.net ([193.120.245.3]:41148 "EHLO eventhorizon.antefacto.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:30:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3D060948.9060104@antefacto.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:29:28 +0100 From: Padraig Brady User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020605 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: remedy@mirotel.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: net sysctls questions In-Reply-To: <02061117004401.01217@fortress.mirotel.net> <3D06051C.3030305@antefacto.com> <20020611.071225.65985367.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > From: Padraig Brady > Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:11:40 +0100 > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/../{arp_filter,tag} > are not documented. > > Nobody had time to document them, that is all. > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_rate_limit is jiffies. > Shouldn't this be HZ, i.e. jiffies shouldn't > be exported to userspace as it's non portable? > > What if you want to specify value smaller than HZ? > That is the most typical for this setting. Current default is 100 (allow 1 ICMP packet/s on Intel or 10/s on alpha). I suppose milliseconds is the most sensible unit to use? Padraig. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/