sysctl.conf

An error stating that net.inet.ip.check_interface in sysctl.conf is, or has, an invalid oid has been noticed recently in the console messages when rebooting a desktop Freebsd-14.1p5 system. The entry in /etc/sysctl.conf is: net.inet.ip.check_interface=1 # verify packet arrives on...

Hi there. Under FreeBSD 13, the command "sysctl net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc" replies as; net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc: 8192 However, "sysctl net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc" says; sysctl: unknown oid 'net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc' Any idea why it doesn't exist? Is such parameter removed in FreeBSD 13? If so...

I installed 12.2 a few weeks ago and recently installed again from the same USB stick to clean up my noob tinkering. Now dmesg is not permissable from a non-root account. Message "sysctl kern.msgbuf" complains. I find it inconvenient to activate root just to check read-only system messages...

I have put these two intentionally incorrect lines in my /etc/sysctl.conf: fakevar=1 security.bsd.see_other_uids=badvalue Then as root, I run "/etc/rc.d/sysctl reload" and I get the output: sysctl: unknown oid 'fakevar' at line 1 sysctl: invalid integer 'badvalue' at line 2 This is exactly the...

Hi, I'm trying to set my default sound device in FreeBSD 10.3 and, according to the handbook, the variable hw.snd.default_unit needs to be set pointing to the correct pcm (in my case, and according to /dev/sndstat, it's pcm6). So, I add hw.snd.default_unit=6 in /etc/sysctl.conf but, when system...