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[PATCH 2/5] IPVS: Add documentation for new sysctl entries

To: lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] IPVS: Add documentation for new sysctl entries
Cc: Wensong Zhang <wensong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:05:35 +0900
Add missing documentation for conntrack, snat_reroute and sync_version.

Also fix up a typo, IPVS_DEBUG should be IP_VS_DEBUG.

Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Acked-by Hans Schillstrom <hans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt 
b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
index 4ccdbca..1dcdd49 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,23 @@ amemthresh - INTEGER
         enabled and the variable is automatically set to 2, otherwise
         the strategy is disabled and the variable is  set  to 1.
 
+conntrack - BOOLEAN
+       0 - disabled (default)
+       not 0 - enabled
+
+       If set, maintain connection tracking entries for
+       connections handled by IPVS.
+
+       This should be enabled if connections handled by IPVS are to be
+       also handled by stateful firewall rules. That is, iptables rules
+       that make use of connection tracking.  It is a performance
+       optimisation to disable this setting otherwise.
+
+       Connections handled by the IPVS FTP application module
+       will have connection tracking entries regardless of this setting.
+
+       Only available when IPVS is compiled with the CONFIG_IP_VS_NFCT
+
 cache_bypass - BOOLEAN
         0 - disabled (default)
         not 0 - enabled
@@ -39,7 +56,7 @@ debug_level - INTEGER
        11         - IPVS packet handling (ip_vs_in/ip_vs_out)
        12 or more - packet traversal
 
-       Only available when IPVS is compiled with the CONFIG_IPVS_DEBUG
+       Only available when IPVS is compiled with the CONFIG_IP_VS_DEBUG
 
        Higher debugging levels include the messages for lower debugging
        levels, so setting debug level 2, includes level 0, 1 and 2
@@ -141,3 +158,36 @@ sync_threshold - INTEGER
         synchronized, every time the number of its incoming packets
         modulus 50 equals the threshold. The range of the threshold is
         from 0 to 49.
+
+snat_reroute - BOOLEAN
+       0 - disabled
+       not 0 - enabled (default)
+
+       If enabled, recalculate the route of SNATed packets from
+       realservers so that they are routed as if they originate from the
+       director. Otherwise they are routed as if they are forwarded by the
+       director.
+
+       If policy routing is in effect then it is possible that the route
+       of a packet originating from a director is routed differently to a
+       packet being forwarded by the director.
+
+       If policy routing is not in effect then the recalculated route will
+       always be the same as the original route so it is an optimisation
+       to disable snat_reroute and avoid the recalculation.
+
+sync_version - INTEGER
+       default 1
+
+       The version of the synchronisation protocol used when sending
+       synchronisation messages.
+
+       0 selects the original synchronisation protocol (version 0). This
+       should be used when sending synchronisation messages to a legacy
+       system that only understands the original synchronisation protocol.
+
+       1 selects the current synchronisation protocol (version 1). This
+       should be used where possible.
+
+       Kernels with this sync_version entry are able to receive messages
+       of both version 1 and version 2 of the synchronisation protocol.
-- 
1.7.5.4

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