linux-toradex.git/Documentation/networking, branch v2.6.21

[IPV6]: Disallow RH0 by default.

2007-04-24T21:58:30+00:00

A security issue is emerging.  Disallow Routing Header Type 0 by default
as we have been doing for IPv4.
Note: We allow RH2 by default because it is harmless.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET] AX.25 Kconfig and docs updates and fixes

2007-03-26T01:48:02+00:00

 o The AX.25 Howto is unmaintained since several years.  I've replaced it
   with a wiki at http://www.linux-ax25.org which provides more uptodate
   information.
 o Change default for AX25_DAMA_SLAVE to Y.  AX25_DAMA_SLAVE only compiles
   in support for DAMA but doesn't activate it.  I hope this gets Linux
   distributions to ship their AX.25 kernels with AX25_DAMA_SLAVE enabled.
   The price for this would be very small.
 o Delete historic changelog from comments, that's what SCM systems are
   meant to do.
 o ---help--- in Kconfig looks so yellingly eye insulting.  Use just help.
 o Rewrite the commented out piece of old Linux 2.4 configuration language
   to Kconfig for consistency.
 o Fixup dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[TCP]: Document several sysctls.

2007-02-28T17:42:15+00:00

This adds documentation for tcp_moderate_rcvbuf, tcp_no_metrics_save,
tcp_base_mss, and tcp_mtu_probing.

Signed-off-by: John Heffner 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[DCCP]: Update documentation

2006-12-11T22:34:38+00:00

As Eddie Kohler points out the RFC is Proposed Standard not experimental.
Also removed documentation about deprecated socket option.

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald 
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

[NETLIK]: Add a pointer to the Generic Netlink wiki page.

2006-12-07T02:39:10+00:00

Add a pointer to the OSDL wiki page on Generic Netlink.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[XFRM]: Fix aevent structuring to be more complete.

2006-12-03T06:22:25+00:00

aevents can not uniquely identify an SA. We break the ABI with this
patch, but consensus is that since it is not yet utilized by any
(known) application then it is fine (better do it now than later).

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[DCCP]: Adds the tx buffer sysctls

2006-12-03T05:24:42+00:00

This one got lost on the way from Ian to Gerrit to me, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

[DCCP]: Update Documentation

2006-12-03T05:24:40+00:00

This patch just updates DCCP documentation a bit.

Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

[NET]: Supporting UDP-Lite (RFC 3828) in Linux

2006-12-03T05:22:46+00:00

This is a revision of the previously submitted patch, which alters
the way files are organized and compiled in the following manner:

	* UDP and UDP-Lite now use separate object files
	* source file dependencies resolved via header files
	  net/ipv{4,6}/udp_impl.h
	* order of inclusion files in udp.c/udplite.c adapted
	  accordingly

[NET/IPv4]: Support for the UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828)

This patch adds support for UDP-Lite to the IPv4 stack, provided as an
extension to the existing UDPv4 code:
        * generic routines are all located in net/ipv4/udp.c
        * UDP-Lite specific routines are in net/ipv4/udplite.c
        * MIB/statistics support in /proc/net/snmp and /proc/net/udplite
        * shared API with extensions for partial checksum coverage

[NET/IPv6]: Extension for UDP-Lite over IPv6

It extends the existing UDPv6 code base with support for UDP-Lite
in the same manner as per UDPv4. In particular,
        * UDPv6 generic and shared code is in net/ipv6/udp.c
        * UDP-Litev6 specific extensions are in net/ipv6/udplite.c
        * MIB/statistics support in /proc/net/snmp6 and /proc/net/udplite6
        * support for IPV6_ADDRFORM
        * aligned the coding style of protocol initialisation with af_inet6.c
        * made the error handling in udpv6_queue_rcv_skb consistent;
          to return `-1' on error on all error cases
        * consolidation of shared code

[NET]: UDP-Lite Documentation and basic XFRM/Netfilter support

The UDP-Lite patch further provides
        * API documentation for UDP-Lite
        * basic xfrm support
        * basic netfilter support for IPv4 and IPv6 (LOG target)

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[DCCP]: Add sysctls to control retransmission behaviour

2006-12-03T05:22:18+00:00

This adds 3 sysctls which govern the retransmission behaviour of DCCP control
packets (3way handshake, feature negotiation).

It removes 4 FIXMEs from the code.

The close resemblance of sysctl variables to their TCP analogues is emphasised
not only by their name, but also by giving them the same initial values.
This is useful since there is not much practical experience with DCCP yet.

Furthermore, with regard to the previous patch, it is now possible to limit
the number of keepalive-Responses by setting net.dccp.default.request_retries
(also a bit like in TCP).

Lastly, added documentation of all existing DCCP sysctls.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker 
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo