# The following is suitable for dedicated web server, mail, ftp server etc. # --------------------------------------- # BOOLEAN Values: # a) 0 (zero) - disabled / no / false # b) Non zero - enabled / yes / true # -------------------------------------- # Controls IP packet forwarding net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 # Controls source route verification net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 # Do not accept source routing net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0 # Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel kernel.sysrq = 0 # Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename # Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications kernel.core_uses_pid = 1 # Controls the use of TCP syncookies #net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 2 ########## IPv4 networking start ############## # Send redirects, if router, but this is just server net.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects = 0 # Accept packets with SRR option? No net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route = 0 # Accept Redirects? No, this is not router net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects = 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.secure_redirects = 0 # Log packets with impossible addresses to kernel log? yes net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_redirects = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.secure_redirects = 0 # Ignore all ICMP ECHO and TIMESTAMP requests sent to it via broadcast/multicast net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1 # Prevent against the common 'syn flood attack' net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 # Enable source validation by reversed path, as specified in RFC1812 net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 ########## IPv6 networking start ############## # Number of Router Solicitations to send until assuming no routers are present. # This is host and not router net.ipv6.conf.default.router_solicitations = 0 # Accept Router Preference in RA? net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra_rtr_pref = 0 # Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra_pinfo = 0 # Setting controls whether the system will accept Hop Limit settings from a router advertisement net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra_defrtr = 0 #router advertisements can cause the system to assign a global unicast address to an interface net.ipv6.conf.default.autoconf = 0 #how many neighbor solicitations to send out per address? net.ipv6.conf.default.dad_transmits = 0 # How many global unicast IPv6 addresses can be assigned to each interface? net.ipv6.conf.default.max_addresses = 1 ########## IPv6 networking ends ############## #Enable ExecShield protection kernel.exec-shield = 1 kernel.randomize_va_space = 1 # TCP and memory optimization # increase TCP max buffer size setable using setsockopt() #net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 8388608 #net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 87380 8388608 # increase Linux auto tuning TCP buffer limits #net.core.rmem_max = 8388608 #net.core.wmem_max = 8388608 #net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 5000 #net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1 # increase system file descriptor limit fs.file-max = 65535 #Allow for more PIDs kernel.pid_max = 65536 #Increase system IP port limits net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 2000 65000 #net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1 #net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time=10 #net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=5 net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max = 65536 net.core.rmem_default = 25165824 net.core.wmem_default = 131072 net.core.optmem_max = 25165824 net.core.somaxconn = 65536 kernel.shmmax = 4294967296 vm.max_map_count = 262144