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icmp.7: Document net.ipv4.ping_group_range knob.

PATCH In review YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明 2 participants 2 messages Apr 16, 2015 – Apr 18, 2015 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 icmp.7: Document net.ipv4.ping_group_range knob.

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 man7/icmp.7 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
man7/icmp.7 +5 -0
index ea86cb4..2f9d370 100644
@@ -158,6 +158,11 @@ Maximum rate for sending
 packets.
 These packets are
 sent to prevent loops when a packet has crossed too many hops.
+.TP
+.IR ping_group_range " (two integers; default: see below; since Linux 2.6.39)"
+Range of group IDs (minimum and maximum group IDs, inclusive)
+allowed to create ICMP Echo sockets.  Default is "1 0", which
+means no group is allowed to create ICMP Echo sockets.
 .SH VERSIONS
 Support for the
 .B ICMP_ADDRESS
Signature · 6 lines
1.9.1

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Quoted 1 line · YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明

Thank you, Hideaki. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael

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---
 man7/icmp.7 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
man7/icmp.7 +5 -0
index ea86cb4..2f9d370 100644
@@ -158,6 +158,11 @@ Maximum rate for sending
 packets.
 These packets are
 sent to prevent loops when a packet has crossed too many hops.
+.TP
+.IR ping_group_range " (two integers; default: see below; since Linux 2.6.39)"
+Range of group IDs (minimum and maximum group IDs, inclusive)
+allowed to create ICMP Echo sockets.  Default is "1 0", which
+means no group is allowed to create ICMP Echo sockets.
 .SH VERSIONS
 Support for the
 .B ICMP_ADDRESS
Signature · 7 lines
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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