Commit ec575f88 authored by Alex Henrie's avatar Alex Henrie Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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Documentation: networking: explain what happens if temp_prefered_lft is too small or too large 



Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231024212312.299370-5-alexhenrie24@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 433d6c80

Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst

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@@ -2509,7 +2509,11 @@ temp_valid_lft - INTEGER 
	Default: 172800 (2 days)



temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER

	Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses.

	Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. If

	temp_prefered_lft is less than the minimum required lifetime (typically

	5 seconds), the preferred lifetime is the minimum required. If

	temp_prefered_lft is greater than temp_valid_lft, the preferred lifetime

	is temp_valid_lft.



	Default: 86400 (1 day)