asymmetric routing (packets from you to a host take a different path
than packets from that host to you) or if you operate a non-routing
host which has several IP addresses on different interfaces. To turn
- rp_filter off use:
+ rp_filter on use:
- echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
+ echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
or
- echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
+ echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
If unsure, say N here.
equal "cost" and chooses one of them in a non-deterministic fashion
if a matching packet arrives.
-config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
- bool "IP: equal cost multipath with caching support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
- help
- Normally, equal cost multipath routing is not supported by the
- routing cache. If you say Y here, alternative routes are cached
- and on cache lookup a route is chosen in a configurable fashion.
-
- If unsure, say N.
-
-config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RR
- tristate "MULTIPATH: round robin algorithm"
- depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
- help
- Mulitpath routes are chosen according to Round Robin
-
-config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RANDOM
- tristate "MULTIPATH: random algorithm"
- depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
- help
- Multipath routes are chosen in a random fashion. Actually,
- there is no weight for a route. The advantage of this policy
- is that it is implemented stateless and therefore introduces only
- a very small delay.
-
-config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_WRANDOM
- tristate "MULTIPATH: weighted random algorithm"
- depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
- help
- Multipath routes are chosen in a weighted random fashion.
- The per route weights are the weights visible via ip route 2. As the
- corresponding state management introduces some overhead routing delay
- is increased.
-
-config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_DRR
- tristate "MULTIPATH: interface round robin algorithm"
- depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
- help
- Connections are distributed in a round robin fashion over the
- available interfaces. This policy makes sense if the connections
- should be primarily distributed on interfaces and not on routes.
-
config IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE
bool "IP: verbose route monitoring"
depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
config TCP_CONG_YEAH
tristate "YeAH TCP"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ select TCP_CONG_VEGAS
default n
---help---
YeAH-TCP is a sender-side high-speed enabled TCP congestion control
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_MD5
---help---
- RFC2385 specifices a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
+ RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers
on the Internet.