From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Sep 20 9:41:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from server1.lordlegacy.org (lordlegacy.org [209.61.182.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03AC437B410 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sharon ([216.13.207.127]) by server1.lordlegacy.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA21505; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:53:34 -0500 From: "Stephen Hurd" To: "Philippe Bourcier" , Subject: RE: sysctl Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:52:53 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <000f01c141e0$1e1de540$0a00a8c0@zen> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi, > > I am willing to make a documentation about all sysctl values (one by one, > their options and their use) so people can understand and tune better their > system. > > Is that something already being done? > Does that sound interesting (to me it sounds like it is, but then it's my > idea...)? I would be VERY interested to read it... I sure wouldn't be interested in writing it. :-) It's the kind of thing I thing to myself "That would be really nice" about every month or so. My $0.02 is that it would be wonderful if each variable had a brief blurb about the intended use for the variable also, in addition to what it does. The difference is rather subtle, but important. For example the "net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface" causes no messages to be logged when an arp response arrives on the wrong interface. Mentioning that this is commonly used when both interfaces are physically conected to the same LAN would be quite a bit of help... or even "Use this to shut up the 'arp: 192.168.1.254 is on ed0 but got reply from 10.10.7.253 on ed1' messages that can flood the syslog in some circumstances." Of course, that bit would take quite some time.... Is the 7th parameter to SYSCTL_INT available in any place? If so, you may want to have a look at it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message