从上述的语法我们大概可看出 sysctl 的表示法乃把目录结构的「/」以「.」表示,一层一层的连结下去。当然以echo 特定的值给一个 proc下的虚拟档案也是可以用 sysctl加以表示,例如:
#sysctl –w net.ipv4.ip_forward =”1”
或是直接在 /etc/sysctl.conf 增删修改特定档案的 0,1值亦可:
# Enables packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
# Enables source route verification
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
# Disables the magic-sysrq key
kernel.sysrq = 0
当然如果考虑 reboot 后仍有效, 直接在 /etc/sysctl.conf 增删修改特定档案的 0,1值才可使之保留设定(以RedHat 为例,每次开机系统启动后, init 会执行 /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit,便会使用 /etc/sysctl.conf 的预设值去执行 sysctl)。
相关参考档案:
/sbin/sysctl
/etc/sysctl.conf
sysctl 及sysctl.conf manpage
/usr/src/linux-x.y.z/Documentation/sysctl/*
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-x.y.z/sysctl/* (RedHat)
配置与显示在/proc/sys目录中的内核参数．可以用sysctl来设置或重新设置联网功能，如IP转发、IP碎片去除以及源路由检查等。用户只需要编辑/etc/sysctl.conf文件，即可手工或自动执行由sysctl控制的功能。 命令格式： sysctl [-n] [-e] -w variable=value sysctl [-n] [-e] -p <filename> (default /etc/sysctl.conf) sysctl [-n] [-e] -a 常用参数的意义： -w 临时改变某个指定参数的值，如 sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 -a 显示所有的系统参数 -p 从指定的文件加载系统参数，如不指定即从/etc/sysctl.conf中加载 如果仅仅是想临时改变某个系统参数的值，可以用两种方法来实现,例如想启用IP路由转发功能： 1) #echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 2) #sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 以上两种方法都可能立即开启路由功能，但如果系统重启，或执行了 # service network restart命令，所设置的值即会丢失，如果想永久保留配置，可以修改/etc/sysctl.conf文件将 net.ipv4.ip_forward=0改为net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
sysctl是一个允许您改变正在运行中的Linux系统的接口。它包含一些 TCP/IP 堆栈和虚拟内存系统的高级选项， 这可以让有经验的管理员提高引人注目的系统性能。用sysctl可以读取设置超过五百个系统变量。基于这点，sysctl(8) 提供两个功能：读取和修改系统设置。
查看所有可读变量：
% sysctl -a
读一个指定的变量，例如 kern.maxproc：
% sysctl kern.maxproc kern.maxproc: 1044
要设置一个指定的变量，直接用 variable=value 这样的语法：
# sysctl kern.maxfiles=5000
kern.maxfiles: 2088 -> 5000
您可以使用sysctl修改系统变量，也可以通过编辑sysctl.conf文件来修改系统变量。sysctl.conf 看起来很像 rc.conf。它用 variable=value 的形式来设定值。指定的值在系统进入多用户模式之后被设定。并不是所有的变量都可以在这个模式下设定。
sysctl 变量的设置通常是字符串、数字或者布尔型。 (布尔型用 1 来表示'yes'，用 0 来表示'no')。
sysctl -w kernel.sysrq=0
sysctl -w kernel.core_uses_pid=1
sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_redirects=0
sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route=0
sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter=1
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=1
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=2048
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=30
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries=2
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time=3600
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=1
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_sack=1
配置sysctl
编辑此文件：
vi /etc/sysctl.conf
如果该文件为空，则输入以下内容，否则请根据情况自己做调整：
# Controls source route verification
# Default should work for all interfaces
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
# net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
# net.ipv4.conf.lo.rp_filter = 1
# net.ipv4.conf.eth0.rp_filter = 1
# Disables IP source routing
# Default should work for all interfaces
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
# net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route = 0
# net.ipv4.conf.lo.accept_source_route = 0
# net.ipv4.conf.eth0.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
# Increase maximum amount of memory allocated to shm
# Only uncomment if needed!
# kernel.shmmax = 67108864
# Disable ICMP Redirect Acceptance
# Default should work for all interfaces
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_redirects = 0
# net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects = 0
# net.ipv4.conf.lo.accept_redirects = 0
# net.ipv4.conf.eth0.accept_redirects = 0
# Enable Log Spoofed Packets, Source Routed Packets, Redirect Packets
# Default should work for all interfaces
net.ipv4.conf.default.log_martians = 1
# net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians = 1
# net.ipv4.conf.lo.log_martians = 1
# net.ipv4.conf.eth0.log_martians = 1
# Decrease the time default value for tcp_fin_timeout connection
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 25
# Decrease the time default value for tcp_keepalive_time connection
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 1200
# Turn on the tcp_window_scaling
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1
# Turn on the tcp_sack
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 1
# tcp_fack should be on because of sack
net.ipv4.tcp_fack = 1
# Turn on the tcp_timestamps
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 1
# Enable TCP SYN Cookie Protection
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1
# Enable ignoring broadcasts request
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1
# Enable bad error message Protection
net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses = 1
# Make more local ports available
# net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
# Set TCP Re-Ordering value in kernel to ‘5′
net.ipv4.tcp_reordering = 5
# Lower syn retry rates
net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 2
net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries = 3
# Set Max SYN Backlog to ‘2048′
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 2048
# Various Settings
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 1024
# Increase the maximum number of skb-heads to be cached
net.core.hot_list_length = 256
# Increase the tcp-time-wait buckets pool size
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 360000
# This will increase the amount of memory available for socket input/output queues
net.core.rmem_default = 65535
net.core.rmem_max = 8388608
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 8388608
net.core.wmem_default = 65535
net.core.wmem_max = 8388608
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65535 8388608
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 8388608 8388608 8388608
net.core.optmem_max = 40960