Re: [NET,RFC]: Introduce SO_{SND,RCV}BUFFORCE socket options

2005-07-21 Thread David S. Miller
From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:36:13 +0200 > ctnetlink needs large socket buffer sizes. To avoid increasing > the system wide limit we would like to have something that allows > CAP_NET_ADMIN to override these limits. The first idea was to > change the SO_{SND,

[NET,RFC]: Introduce SO_{SND,RCV}BUFFORCE socket options

2005-07-20 Thread Patrick McHardy
ctnetlink needs large socket buffer sizes. To avoid increasing the system wide limit we would like to have something that allows CAP_NET_ADMIN to override these limits. The first idea was to change the SO_{SND,RCV}BUF behaviour, but since a valid way of getting the largest possible size is to use