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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index fbe427a6580c..a0e134dd2523 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1086,6 +1086,24 @@ accept_dad - INTEGER 2: Enable DAD, and disable IPv6 operation if MAC-based duplicate link-local address has been found. +force_tllao - BOOLEAN + Enable sending the target link-layer address option even when + responding to a unicast neighbor solicitation. + Default: FALSE + + Quoting from RFC 2461, section 4.4, Target link-layer address: + + "The option MUST be included for multicast solicitations in order to + avoid infinite Neighbor Solicitation "recursion" when the peer node + does not have a cache entry to return a Neighbor Advertisements + message. When responding to unicast solicitations, the option can be + omitted since the sender of the solicitation has the correct link- + layer address; otherwise it would not have be able to send the unicast + solicitation in the first place. However, including the link-layer + address in this case adds little overhead and eliminates a potential + race condition where the sender deletes the cached link-layer address + prior to receiving a response to a previous solicitation." + icmp/*: ratelimit - INTEGER Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets. |