I went to Google and entered in "Explanation of tcpip settings in /proc" and this was the first hit I got back, which has what I think you are looking for... http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.kernel.obscure.html Tim. -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Aramico Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:38 PM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: [Wlug] Finding more detail defined settings. All, can u please help me here..... Where can I get more detail about the description and function for configuration files placed at /proc/sys/net/ipv4 the directory contents of these bellow listed files dr-xr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 icmp_echo_ignore_all -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 icmp_ratelimit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 icmp_ratemask -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 igmp_max_memberships -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 inet_peer_gc_maxtime -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 inet_peer_gc_mintime -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 inet_peer_maxttl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 inet_peer_minttl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 inet_peer_threshold -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_autoconfig -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_conntrack_max -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_default_ttl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_dynaddr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_forward -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ipfrag_high_thresh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ipfrag_low_thresh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ipfrag_time -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_local_port_range -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_nonlocal_bind -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_no_pmtu_disc dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 neigh dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 route -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_abort_on_overflow -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_adv_win_scale -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_app_win -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_dsack -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_ecn -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_fack -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_fin_timeout -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_keepalive_intvl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_keepalive_probes -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_keepalive_time -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_max_orphans -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_max_syn_backlog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_max_tw_buckets -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_mem -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_orphan_retries -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_reordering -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_retrans_collapse -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_retries1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_retries2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_rfc1337 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_rmem -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_sack -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_stdurg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_synack_retries -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_syncookies -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_syn_retries -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_timestamps -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_tw_recycle -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_window_scaling -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_wmem thanks :) _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug