proc_sys_net(5)

proc_sys_net5

Networking

Overview

/proc/sys/net/

This directory contains networking stuff. Explanations for some of the files under this directory can be found in tcp(7) and ip(7).

/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable

See bpf(2).

/proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn

This file defines a ceiling value for the backlog argument of listen(2); see the listen(2) manual page for details.

/proc/sys/net/ipv4/

See proc_sys_net_ipv4(5).

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.