Re: Missing value for tcp_syncookies sysctl

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Hi Philip,

On 12/7/20 5:10 PM, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> Under man7/tcp.7 please mention the "2" value for tcp_syncookies, which is no longer a boolean, default "1".
> 
> First mentioned in kernel 3.12
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v3.12/source/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt#L443
> 
> The kernel documentation is rather ungrammatical, so suggest instead:
> 
>> Set to 2 to send syncookies unconditionally, which can be useful for network testing (since Linux 3.12).
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil
> 

Thanks for the report, and for the links and suggestion!

I'll update that.

Cheers,

Alex

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/



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