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| author | Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> | 2016-01-25 16:35:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org> | 2016-01-26 07:33:17 +0100 |
| commit | 99d3dbee9952d2947e64a68380686b12c6a1e7f5 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a247f275a6dede73777ecaea1fd74bb5971fa3d /docs-xml | |
| parent | 9fcf87419f3f68429bb365ffb605be3eacc97e15 (diff) | |
| download | samba-99d3dbee9952d2947e64a68380686b12c6a1e7f5.tar.gz | |
docs:smb.conf: document new extra syntax for interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs-xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/interfaces.xml | 23 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/interfaces.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/interfaces.xml index db12fa11e27..b804e64be9e 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/interfaces.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/base/interfaces.xml @@ -38,7 +38,28 @@ By default Samba enables all active interfaces that are broadcast capable except the loopback adaptor (IP address 127.0.0.1). </para> - + + <para> + In order to support SMB3 multi-channel configurations, smbd understands + some extra data that can be appended after the actual interface with + this extended syntax: + </para> + + <para> + interface[;key1=value1[,key2=value2[...]]] + </para> + + <para> + Known keys are speed, capability, and if_index. Speed is specified in + bits per second. Known capabilities are RSS and RDMA. The + if_index should be used with care: the values must not coincide with + indexes used by the kernel. + Note that these options are mainly intended for testing and + development rather than for production use. At least on Linux systems, + these values should be auto-detected, but the settings can serve + as last a resort when autodetection is not working or is not available. + </para> + <para> The example below configures three network interfaces corresponding to the eth0 device and IP addresses 192.168.2.10 and 192.168.3.10. |