Join a multicast group and allow receiving data only from a specified source. Argument is an ip_mreq_source structure.

Inform the kernel to not reserve an ephemeral port when using bind(2) with a port number of 0. The port will later be automatically chosen at connect(2) time, in a way that allows sharing a source port as long as the 4-tuple is unique.

Stop receiving multicast data from a specific source in a given group. This is valid only after the application has subscribed to the multicast group using either IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP or IP_ADD_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP.

Argument is an ip_mreq_source structure as described under IP_ADD_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP.

Leave a multicast group. Argument is an ip_mreqn or ip_mreq structure similar to IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP.

Leave a source-specific group—that is, stop receiving data from a given multicast group that come from a given source. If the application has subscribed to multiple sources within the same group, data from the remaining sources will still be delivered. To stop receiving data from all sources at once, use IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP.

Argument is an ip_mreq_source structure as described under IP_ADD_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP.

If enabled, this boolean option allows binding to an IP address that is nonlocal or does not (yet) exist. This permits listening on a socket, without requiring the underlying network interface or the specified dynamic IP address to be up at the time that the application is trying to bind to it. This option is the per-socket equivalent of the ip_nonlocal_bind /proc interface described below.

If enabled, the user supplies an IP header in front of the user data. Valid only for SOCK_RAW sockets; see raw(7) for more information. When this flag is enabled, the values set by IP_OPTIONS, IP_TTL, and IP_TOS are ignored.

This option provides access to the advanced full-state filtering API. Argument is an ip_msfilter structure.

Retrieve the current known path MTU of the current socket. Returns an integer.

IP_MTU is valid only for getsockopt(2) and can be employed only when the socket has been connected.

Set or receive the Path MTU Discovery setting for a socket. When enabled, Linux will perform Path MTU Discovery as defined in RFC 1191 on SOCK_STREAM sockets. For non-SOCK_STREAM sockets, IP_PMTUDISC_DO forces the don't-fragment flag to be set on all outgoing packets. It is the user's responsibility to packetize the data in MTU-sized chunks and to do the retransmits if necessary. The kernel will reject (with EMSGSIZE) datagrams that are bigger than the known path MTU. IP_PMTUDISC_WANT will fragment a datagram if needed according to the path MTU, or will set the don't-fragment flag otherwise.

The system-wide default can be toggled between IP_PMTUDISC_WANT and IP_PMTUDISC_DONT by writing (respectively, zero and nonzero values) to the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc file.

This option can be used to modify the delivery policy of multicast messages to sockets bound to the wildcard INADDR_ANY address. The argument is a boolean integer (defaults to 1). If set to 1, the socket will receive messages from all the groups that have been joined globally on the whole system. Otherwise, it will deliver messages only from the groups that have been explicitly joined (for example via the IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP option) on this particular socket.

Set the local device for a multicast socket. The argument for setsockopt(2) is an ip_mreqn or (since Linux 3.5) ip_mreq structure similar to IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, or an in_addr structure. (The kernel determines which structure is being passed based on the size passed in optlen.) For getsockopt(2), the argument is an in_addr structure.

Set or read a boolean integer argument that determines whether sent multicast packets should be looped back to the local sockets.

Set or read the time-to-live value of outgoing multicast packets for this socket. It is very important for multicast packets to set the smallest TTL possible. The default is 1 which means that multicast packets don't leave the local network unless the user program explicitly requests it. Argument is an integer.

If enabled (argument is nonzero), the reassembly of outgoing packets is disabled in the netfilter layer. The argument is an integer.

This option is valid only for SOCK_RAW sockets.

Set or get the IP options to be sent with every packet from this socket. The arguments are a pointer to a memory buffer containing the options and the option length. The setsockopt(2) call sets the IP options associated with a socket. The maximum option size for IPv4 is 40 bytes. See RFC 791 for the allowed options. When the initial connection request packet for a SOCK_STREAM socket contains IP options, the IP options will be set automatically to the options from the initial packet with routing headers reversed. Incoming packets are not allowed to change options after the connection is established. The processing of all incoming source routing options is disabled by default and can be enabled by using the accept_source_route /proc interface. Other options like timestamps are still handled. For datagram sockets, IP options can be set only by the local user. Calling getsockopt(2) with IP_OPTIONS puts the current IP options used for sending into the supplied buffer.

If labeled IPSEC or NetLabel is configured on the sending and receiving hosts, this option enables receiving of the security context of the peer socket in an ancillary message of type SCM_SECURITY retrieved using recvmsg(2). This option is supported only for UDP sockets; for TCP or SCTP sockets, see the description of the SO_PEERSEC option below.

The value given as an argument to setsockopt(2) and returned as the result of getsockopt(2) is an integer boolean flag.

The security context returned in the SCM_SECURITY ancillary message is of the same format as the one described under the SO_PEERSEC option below.

	Note
	The reuse of the SCM_SECURITY message type for the IP_PASSSEC socket option was likely a mistake, since other IP control messages use their own numbering scheme in the IP namespace and often use the socket option value as the message type. There is no conflict currently since the IP option with the same value as SCM_SECURITY is IP_HDRINCL and this is never used for a control message type.

Pass an IP_PKTINFO ancillary message that contains a pktinfo structure that supplies some information about the incoming packet. This works only for datagram oriented sockets. The argument is a flag that tells the socket whether the IP_PKTINFO message should be passed or not. The message itself can be sent/retrieved only as a control message with a packet using recvmsg(2) or sendmsg(2).

ipi_ifindex is the unique index of the interface the packet was received on. ipi_spec_dst is the local address of the packet and ipi_addr is the destination address in the packet header. If IP_PKTINFO is passed to sendmsg(2) and ipi_spec_dst is not zero, then it is used as the local source address for the routing table lookup and for setting up IP source route options. When ipi_ifindex is not zero, the primary local address of the interface specified by the index overwrites ipi_spec_dst for the routing table lookup.

Enable extended reliable error message passing. When enabled on a datagram socket, all generated errors will be queued in a per-socket error queue. When the user receives an error from a socket operation, the errors can be received by calling recvmsg(2) with the MSG_ERRQUEUE flag set. The sock_extended_err structure describing the error will be passed in an ancillary message with the type IP_RECVERR and the level IPPROTO_IP. This is useful for reliable error handling on unconnected sockets. The received data portion of the error queue contains the error packet.

The IP_RECVERR control message contains a sock_extended_err structure:

ee_errno contains the errno number of the queued error. ee_origin is the origin code of where the error originated. The other fields are protocol-specific. The macro SO_EE_OFFENDER returns a pointer to the address of the network object where the error originated from given a pointer to the ancillary message. If this address is not known, the sa_family member of the sockaddr contains AF_UNSPEC and the other fields of the sockaddr are undefined.

IP uses the sock_extended_err structure as follows: ee_origin is set to SO_EE_ORIGIN_ICMP for errors received as an ICMP packet, or SO_EE_ORIGIN_LOCAL for locally generated errors. Unknown values should be ignored. ee_type and ee_code are set from the type and code fields of the ICMP header. ee_info contains the discovered MTU for EMSGSIZE errors. The message also contains the sockaddr_in of the node caused the error, which can be accessed with the SO_EE_OFFENDER macro. The sin_family field of the SO_EE_OFFENDER address is AF_UNSPEC when the source was unknown. When the error originated from the network, all IP options (IP_OPTIONS, IP_TTL, etc.) enabled on the socket and contained in the error packet are passed as control messages. The payload of the packet causing the error is returned as normal payload. Note that TCP has no error queue; MSG_ERRQUEUE is not permitted on SOCK_STREAM sockets. IP_RECVERR is valid for TCP, but all errors are returned by socket function return or SO_ERROR only.

For raw sockets, IP_RECVERR enables passing of all received ICMP errors to the application, otherwise errors are reported only on connected sockets

It sets or retrieves an integer boolean flag. IP_RECVERR defaults to off.

Pass all incoming IP options to the user in a IP_OPTIONS control message. The routing header and other options are already filled in for the local host. Not supported for SOCK_STREAM sockets.

This boolean option enables the IP_ORIGDSTADDR ancillary message in recvmsg(2), in which the kernel returns the original destination address of the datagram being received. The ancillary message contains a struct sockaddr_in.

If enabled, the IP_TOS ancillary message is passed with incoming packets. It contains a byte which specifies the Type of Service/Precedence field of the packet header. Expects a boolean integer flag.

When this flag is set, pass a IP_TTL control message with the time-to-live field of the received packet as a 32 bit integer. Not supported for SOCK_STREAM sockets.

Identical to IP_RECVOPTS, but returns raw unprocessed options with timestamp and route record options not filled in for this hop.

Pass all to-be forwarded packets with the IP Router Alert option set to this socket. Valid only for raw sockets. This is useful, for instance, for user-space RSVP daemons. The tapped packets are not forwarded by the kernel; it is the user's responsibility to send them out again. Socket binding is ignored, such packets are filtered only by protocol. Expects an integer flag.

Set or receive the Type-Of-Service (TOS) field that is sent with every IP packet originating from this socket. It is used to prioritize packets on the network. TOS is a byte. There are some standard TOS flags defined: IPTOS_LOWDELAY to minimize delays for interactive traffic, IPTOS_THROUGHPUT to optimize throughput, IPTOS_RELIABILITY to optimize for reliability, IPTOS_MINCOST should be used for "filler data" where slow transmission doesn't matter. At most one of these TOS values can be specified. Other bits are invalid and shall be cleared. Linux sends IPTOS_LOWDELAY datagrams first by default, but the exact behavior depends on the configured queueing discipline. Some high-priority levels may require superuser privileges (the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability).

Setting this boolean option enables transparent proxying on this socket. This socket option allows the calling application to bind to a nonlocal IP address and operate both as a client and a server with the foreign address as the local endpoint. NOTE: this requires that routing be set up in a way that packets going to the foreign address are routed through the TProxy box (i.e., the system hosting the application that employs the IP_TRANSPARENT socket option). Enabling this socket option requires superuser privileges (the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability).

TProxy redirection with the iptables TPROXY target also requires that this option be set on the redirected socket.

Set or retrieve the current time-to-live field that is used in every packet sent from this socket.

Unblock previously blocked multicast source. Returns EADDRNOTAVAIL when given source is not being blocked.

Argument is an ip_mreq_source structure as described under IP_ADD_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP.

If labeled IPSEC or NetLabel is configured on both the sending and receiving hosts, this read-only socket option returns the security context of the peer socket connected to this socket. By default, this will be the same as the security context of the process that created the peer socket unless overridden by the policy or by a process with the required permissions.

The argument to getsockopt(2) is a pointer to a buffer of the specified length in bytes into which the security context string will be copied. If the buffer length is less than the length of the security context string, then getsockopt(2) returns −1, sets errno to ERANGE, and returns the required length via optlen. The caller should allocate at least NAME_MAX bytes for the buffer initially, although this is not guaranteed to be sufficient. Resizing the buffer to the returned length and retrying may be necessary.

The security context string may include a terminating null character in the returned length, but is not guaranteed to do so: a security context "foo" might be represented as either {'f','o','o'} of length 3 or {'f','o','o','\0'} of length 4, which are considered to be interchangeable. The string is printable, does not contain non-terminating null characters, and is in an unspecified encoding (in particular, it is not guaranteed to be ASCII or UTF-8).

The use of this option for sockets in the AF_INET address family is supported since Linux 2.6.17 for TCP sockets, and since Linux 4.17 for SCTP sockets.

For SELinux, NetLabel conveys only the MLS portion of the security context of the peer across the wire, defaulting the rest of the security context to the values defined in the policy for the netmsg initial security identifier (SID). However, NetLabel can be configured to pass full security contexts over loopback. Labeled IPSEC always passes full security contexts as part of establishing the security association (SA) and looks them up based on the association for each packet.